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Born 1842
From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909), Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897)
ACOB SEYBOLD, a prosperous farmer of Mad River township, Montgomery county, Ohio, was born in Harrison township, same county, April i, 1842. He is a son of John George and Jacobina (Fulmer) Seybold, both natives of Wurtemberg, Germany. They were the parents of twelve children, seven sons and five daughters, six of whom are still living, as follows: John G.; Frederick: Mary Ann, wife of Abram
Prugh; Jacob, the subject of this sketch, and William.
John George Seybold, father of these children, was a baker by trade in his native country, came to the United States and settled two miles north of Dayton, where he lived until his death. He owned 360 acres of land at the time of his death, which is evidence of his industry and economy. He died when sixty-two years of age. His wife survived him until April 11, 1893, when she died at the age of ninety-one years and nine months. Both were members of the Lutheran church, and were most excellent people in every respect. Mr. Seybold was a quiet, unobtrusive man, strictly attentive to business, and strongly in favor of temperance, theoretically and practically. The paternal grandfather of Jacob Seybold died in Germany. He was a prominent man in his day, and a soldier in the German army. The maternal grandfather also died in Germany.
Jacob Seybold was reared in Harrison township, Montgomery county, attended the district school, and remained at home until he was twenty-one years of age. He then began the battle of life on his own account, by working for his father for $160 per year, using only ten dollars of that sum during the entire year. Then, buying a team, he began farming and lost nearly $300 the first year. His brother then offered him employment, which he declined, but continued to work on the farm, to buy stock, and has since accumulated a handsome property, his first year’s experience having been of great value to him.
Mr. Seybold was married, February 23, 1881, to Miss Maggie E. Null, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Walts) Null, the former of whom was born in Berberia and the latter in Montgomery county, Ohio. No children were born to this marriage. Mrs. Seybold was a good woman, and a member of the Reformed church. She was of a happy and lovable disposition, and made friends of all with whom she came in contact. She died April 26, 1894. Their home was a mansion in its dimensions, there being twenty-two rooms therein, and the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Seybold was well known to a great circle of friends. Mrs. Seybold was always of a cheerful disposition, carrying brightness and sunshine into the lives of those about her.
Mr. Seybold is of a peculiarly frank and generous disposition. As a farmer he is industrious and successful, has one of the best of farms, finely improved, and is an intelligent and well-informed citizen. As an independent democrat he has held the office of township supervisor for fifteen years. Few men, if any, in the county stand higher in the estimation of the people generally than does Jacob Seybold.
As printed in Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JACOB SEYBOLD.
Jacob Seybold, a prosperous and representative farmer of Mad River township, Montgomery county, was born in this county on the ist of April, 1842, and is one of the oldest citizens of this township. He is a son of John and Jacobina (Fulmer) Seybold, the former a native of Germany, who came to the United States when about twenty-two years of age, settling in Montgomery county, Ohio. He devoted his entire life to farming and became one of the most prominent representatives of agricultural pursuits in Mad River township.
Jacob Seybold, whose name introduces this review, has passed his entire life in Montgomery county with the exception of one year, which was spent in traveling in Indiana. Passing his youthful days under his father’s roof, he acquired his education in the common schools of the neighborhood and assisted in the work of the farm. Reared to agricultural life, he wisely those that occupation as his life work. He now owns one hundred and eighty-five acres of fine farm land on the Brandt pike about four miles from the Dayton courthouse, the pike passing through and dividing the property. This farm, which has been highly cultivated and greatly improved, is recognized as one of the finest in Montgomery county. He is greatly interested in horse racing and has raised some very fine horses, at the present time having three in training, while he is a well known figure in racing circles in this county.
On the 23d of February, 1882, Mr. Seybold was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Null, who died April 26, 1894. He was again married, April 22, 1902, his second union being with Miss Martha Bertha Rosalie Roehr, who was born March 22, 1884, in Gerbstedt, province of Saxony (or Sachsen), Germany. She
MR. A XI) traces her ancestry back to Carl Roehr, who was born in 1815 in the beautiful summer resort owned by his father at Gerbstedt. At the age of fourteen years he began learning the stone-mason’s and carpenter’s trades and was graduated as an architect when in his twenty-fourth year. He continued in business along that line from 1839 until 1864, when his eldest son, Carl Roehr, Jr., succeeded him, and he spent the remainder of his life in retirement from active labor. He married Chrystal Michaels, who was born in the village of Halle-in-Sachsen, Germany, where her father owned and operated a mill until the war between France and Prussia in 1816, when he lost his property, and in 1814 moved to Gerbstedt. Ludwig Albert Roehr, the father of Mrs. Seybold, was born on the 7th of August, 1859, in Gerbstedt, Saxony, Germany, and received a good education, graduating from the normal school. At the age of fourteen he commenced learning the mechanic’s trade, at which he worked until eighteen years of age, and then after attaining his majority served two years in the Magdeburger Yaeger Battalion, No. 4. In 1883 he established a machine shop in Gerbstedt, which he successfully conducted until 1891, but it has been his wish from boyhood to come to America, where he believed that better opportunities were afforded to those who have to make their own way in the world, but as this was against the wish of his cousins, he did not leave Germany until after the death of his mother. On the lath of January, 1892, however, he started with his wife and four children on the long voyage to the United States. He reached Cincinnati, Ohio, on the ist of February of that year and six days later began work in the Seybold Machine Factory of that city, where in a few months he rose to the position of foreman. When the company transferred their factory to Dayton in 1893 he removed his family to this city and continues in the position of foreman up to the present time though since 1895 he has made his home on a farm just south of Dayton, which has since been laid out in city lots. His wife, Mrs. Anna Bertha Rosalie Roehr, was born February 1 2, 1863, in Gerbstedt, Province of Saxony, Germany, and also received a normal school education. After graduating from that department she entered a school of cooking at Leipsic. It was on the ist of July, 1883, that she gave her hand in marriage to Ludwig Albert Roehr. August Roehr, the grandfather of Mrs. Seybold, was born in 1834 and in his fourteenth year commenced learning the miller’s trade, but afterward turned his attention to the buying and selling of grain. In 1869 he purchased a hotel, which he conducted until his death. In 1874 he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Wagner in Gorenzen, near Mansfield. Her brother was an officer in the army and had charge of the post as director at Keil, Germany. August Roehr and his wife not only reared the eight children born to them but also two that were left orphans by the death of his sister, these being William and Ferdinand Duedloff. The former studied to be a forester and later became minister of forest culture in Austria by appointment of the government. Subsequently he received a similar appointment from the king of Bulgaria, which position he still holds. At the age of fourteen years his brother, Ferdinand Duedloff, went upon the sea and rose to the position of captain. In the meantime he took one trip around the world, being gone seven years. He received a pension and died in Berlin, Germany, in 1906. Mrs. Seybold was graduated from the normal school at Oakwood and at present is studying both vocal and instrumental music. At the age of fifteen years she was confirmed in St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran church and is still a member of that denomination.
Mr. Seybold gives his political allegiance to the democratic party and served as supervisor for fifteen years. He is public-spirited in all matters of citizenship, giving loyal support to all measures that tend to further the material, political and intellectual progress of the community. Through the successful conduct of his various business interests he has attained a most gratifying degree of success and is now numbered among the substantial and representative citizens of Montgomery county.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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