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Arren Eugene Seidel

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Arren Eugene Seidel

Birth
Montour County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
5 Mar 1960 (aged 88)
Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania

Published by J. H. Beers & Co. 1915 Chicago Pages 858-860

Arren E. Seidel, eldest son of Alfred F. ,was born on the old Seidel homestead in Derry township Oct. 16, 1872. He received his early education at Strawberry Ridge, in that township, attending public school until he was fifteen years old, when he enetered Greenwood Seminary, Millville, Columbia county and took two years course. Following that he became a student at the Lycoming normal school at Muncy, Lycoming Co.,Pa. and qualified as a teacher. He also attended Potts Shorthand College, at Williamsport, and took fouteen months course, graduating as a stenographer and typewriter. He followed that line of work in Williamsport for one and a half years, when he entered the United States railway postal service, and was assigned to the run between Elmira, N.Y., and Baltimore, MD., remaing in the service for fourteen months. At that time he married , May 18, 1902, Edna Martz and they on his farm of thirty-nine acres, located in Derry township, near Danville, all of which is cleared and under cultivation. Mr. Seidel has since made a specialty of training bird dogs, at present hving dogs in training whose value amounts to six thousand dollars; he has trained this kind of dog for the leading sportsmen in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Since its organization he has been president of the Game and Fish Club of Montour county, which has three hundred members, and its object is to protect and increase the game and fish of this country. The members have practically the same powers as game wardens. Mr. Seidel is a Democrat, and has served his township as tax collector and school director. He is a member of the Danville Aerie, No. 338, F.O.E., of the Modern Woodmen of America at Washingtonville, and a charter member of Danville Nest, No 1240, Order of Owls.
Historical and biographical annals of Columbia and Montour Counties, Pennsylvania

Published by J. H. Beers & Co. 1915 Chicago Pages 858-860

Arren E. Seidel, eldest son of Alfred F. ,was born on the old Seidel homestead in Derry township Oct. 16, 1872. He received his early education at Strawberry Ridge, in that township, attending public school until he was fifteen years old, when he enetered Greenwood Seminary, Millville, Columbia county and took two years course. Following that he became a student at the Lycoming normal school at Muncy, Lycoming Co.,Pa. and qualified as a teacher. He also attended Potts Shorthand College, at Williamsport, and took fouteen months course, graduating as a stenographer and typewriter. He followed that line of work in Williamsport for one and a half years, when he entered the United States railway postal service, and was assigned to the run between Elmira, N.Y., and Baltimore, MD., remaing in the service for fourteen months. At that time he married , May 18, 1902, Edna Martz and they on his farm of thirty-nine acres, located in Derry township, near Danville, all of which is cleared and under cultivation. Mr. Seidel has since made a specialty of training bird dogs, at present hving dogs in training whose value amounts to six thousand dollars; he has trained this kind of dog for the leading sportsmen in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Since its organization he has been president of the Game and Fish Club of Montour county, which has three hundred members, and its object is to protect and increase the game and fish of this country. The members have practically the same powers as game wardens. Mr. Seidel is a Democrat, and has served his township as tax collector and school director. He is a member of the Danville Aerie, No. 338, F.O.E., of the Modern Woodmen of America at Washingtonville, and a charter member of Danville Nest, No 1240, Order of Owls.


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