Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Seekel, Geo B 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Alice Warner Brosey http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 September 2, 2011, 1:56 pm

Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

Geo. B. Seekel, dealer in lumber, grain and agricultural implements, was born in
Taunton, Mass., in Sept., 1823; the most of his younger days were spent in
Providence, R. I. In 1856 he moved to Madison, Wis., and engaged in the grain
business; went south in 1864 and remained two years, after which he engaged in
the lumber trade in Chicago; after two years he went to St. Paul, Minn., having
the management and general agency of the Singer sewing machine. In 1871 removed
to Logan and engaged in his present business; has been a member of the city
council, and president of the school board several years. He is a member of the
I. O. O. F. and A. F. & A. M. lodges. He was married in Dec., 1847, to Martha M.
Williams, of N. Y., and has one daughter.


Additional Comments:
Harrison County Chapter; Logan Biographies

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/cook/bios/seekel1612gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/

File size: 1.5 Kb