Vermilion County IL Archives Biographies.....SIEFERMANN, Anselm November 10, 1836 - February 7, 1909
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Author: H. W. Beckwith

History of Vermilion County Illinois, Beckwith 1879, page 463:

/Danville Township/

Anselm Sieferman, Danville, cigar manufacturer, was born in Baden, Germany, on 
the 10th of November, 1836, and is the son of Joseph and Mary Ann (Adam) 
Sieferman, of Germany. In 1853 he started for America, and landed in New York 
on the 15th of August of the same year. He came direct west and located in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, where he first commenced to work in a machine-shop, 
remaining some three years, when the shops closed. In 1861 he commenced in the 
tobacco business in Cincinnati, and followed this there until 1868, when he 
came to. Danville, which has been his home ever since. He here commenced the 
tobacco business, and has in his employ three hands. In 1879 he was elected 
alderman of the first ward, which office he still holds. He was married on the 
1st of September, 1859, to Agatha Kreuzburg, of Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. They 
have one child. Mr. Sieferman has taken a very active part in the welfare of 
the city of Danville, and ranks as one of its leading German citizens.



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