Bio of SEILER, Otto E. (b.1889), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol III, pg 204, 207
O. E. SEILER (Otto E. Seiler)
O. E. Seiler, state manager in Minnesota for the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company of Hartford, Connecticut, has through individual merit and business
capability worked his way upward to the responsible position which he is now
occupying. His life story is interesting in that it records the mastery of every
task and duty assigned him and is indicative of the fact that power grows
through the exercise of effort.
Mr. Seiler was born in Woodstock, Illinois, June 21, 1889, and is a son of
Gustave and Magdalene (Bertschy) Seiler, both of whom were natives of Germany.
The father came to the United States in 1873, while the mother crossed the
Atlantic in 18C7. Gustave Seiler was killed during the Spanish-American war
while serving in Porto Rico, meeting death through the discharge of a sniper's
gun while engaged in the performance of his duty. He had previously served in
the Franco-Prussian war and was a trained soldier.
His son, O. E. Seiler, having attended the public schools of Woodetock,
Illinois, afterward became a student in the University of Illinois, from which
he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. During his college
days he made an excellent record as an athlete, belonging to the baseball,
football and track teams and also becoming a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, a
college fraternity. Following the com­pletion of his university course he taught
school for a year at La Crosse, Wisconsin, then became a teacher in the
Northwestern University, where he spent two years, and later was for a similar
period at the Lake Forest Academy as teacher of mathematics and as athletic
coach. In 1917 he became identified with the Mark Manufacturing Company's steel
mills at South Chicago and Indiana Harbor, and when he left that position he
went to Swift & Company of Chicago, with whom he remained for a time. His next
employment was with a wholesale paint and glass company of Des Moines, Iowa,
which he represented as assistant manager, and in February, 1919, he entered the
insurance field by becoming a salesman with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
Company at Des Moines. He bent every energy toward a thorough mastery of the
insurance business and in January, 1920, he was promoted to the position of
manager of the Minneapolis office, where he continues. Here he has built up a
very fine business and is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of
the corporation.
On the 30th of August, 1913, Mr. Seiler was married to Miss Leila Lawrence of
Woodstock, Illinois, and they have become parents of a son, Robert Lawrence,
born April 8, 1915. Mr. Seiler belongs to the Minneapolis Athletic Club and also
to the Auto, mobile Club. He is known as a fluent speaker and is often heard as
a public lecturer in Minneapolis and vicinity upon economic and financial
matters. He has delved deep into these questions and his opinions are never
based upon any superficial understanding of the subject under discussion.