Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Siegel, John H. 1858 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

                   JOHN H. SIEGEL.

    John H. Siegel, first vice-president of the Eagle Roller Mills at New Ulm,
this county, and one of the best-known flour-mill men in the Northwest, was
literally born to the milling business, his father having been a pioneer miller
in Indiana, and he has been connected with the flour-milling industry all the
active years of his life.

    Born at Newburg, Indiana, in 1858, John H. Siegel received his education in
the schools of that thriving little town and early took a place in his father's
flour-mill. When nineteen years of age he went to Elizabethtown, Illinois, where
he remained until 1879, in which year he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he
was placed in charge of the W. B. Lowery mill. Two years later his services were
engaged by the Jewell Milling Company, at Brooklyn, New York, and he had been
connected with that mill four years when a more attractive proposition took him
to Milwaukee, where, in 1885, he became second miller in the Daisy Roller Mills,
and he remained there until 1891, in which year he came to Minnesota and started
the Eagle Roller Mills at New Ulm for the Allis-Chalmers Company, of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. In the following year he became the superintendent of the Daisy
Roller Mill Company and was thus connected with that concern for four years, at
the end of which time, in 1896, his services again were secured by, the Eagle
Roller Mill Company and he was installed as superintendent of that company's
great plant at New Ulm. Mr. Siegel gradually became the owner of a considerable
block of stock in the company and in 1904 was elected first vice -president of
the company, a position which he still holds and by virtue of which he is
recognized as one of the most commanding figures in the great flour-milling
industry of the Northwest.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana


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