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FRANCIS STANLEY SIEGFRIED
Among the more recent accession to
business circles of Lodi is F. Stanley Siegfried, a man of keen discrimination
and good judgment, whose executive ability and excellent management have brought
to his stationery and art business a large degree of success. The sterling policy which he inaugurated in
his business career has secured a patronage which makes the volume of trade
transacted of considerable magnitude. He
was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1889, a son of A. W. and
Emma (Aicher) Siegfried. The father is a wholesale cigar salesman and
both parents still reside in Pennsylvania.
There are six children in the family:
Katherine, Melvin, F. Stanley, the subject of this sketch, Raymond,
Harold and Walter.
F. Stanley Siegfried attended
grammar school in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, then entered high school and
after graduation from high school went to the Ithaca Conservatory of Music at
Ithaca, New York, graduating with the class of 1911 in violin. For the succeeding seven years he followed
his profession, teaching violin, and in concert work throughout the east. Since coming west he has continued his
profession.
On April 29 1913, at Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Mr. Siegfried was married to Miss Josephine K. Babiner, a native of Gowanda, New York, a daughter of Blaise and Regina L. Babinger. Her father, Blaise Babinger, was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and was an
officer in the French army until he settled in the United States. He engaged in his trade of art moulder at
Gowanda, New York. There are six
children in the Babinger family: Joseph, Virginia, Mary, Kathryn, James and
Josephine K., Mrs. Siegfried. Mrs.
Siegfried is a graduate of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music, majoring in piano,
and while a student there met Mr. Siegfried.
He is a member of the American Federation of Musicians of Lodi, also the
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Stockton locals of this order. In national politics he is a Democrat, but
locally votes for the candidate best fitted to perform the duties of the office
for which he is selected. Mr. and Mrs.
Siegfried are members of the Catholic Church of Lodi and he is a member of the
Knights of Columbus. Mr. Siegfried
occupies his spare time teaching the violin and directing orchestras at the
Lodi and Stockton theaters.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1424. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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