BIO: JOHN B. SEITZ, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 413-414
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    JOHN B. SEITZ, a promising young man of West Pennsboro township, whose
  upright life has commended him to the good people of Cumberland county, is of
  Swiss descent, his great-grandfather, Jacob Seitz, having emigrated from
  Switzerland at an early age.
    
    Jacob Seitz, the emigrant, first located in Lancaster county, where he
  remained some time and then moved to Cumberland county, settling in West
  Pennsboro township, where
    
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  his death occurred. He was a preacher, of the Dunkard faith, in both
  Lancaster and Cumberland counties. Of his children, there is record of Jacob
  (2), Tobias, Benjamin, John, Henry, Fannie, Leah, Mary, Susie and Nancie.
    
    Jacob Seitz (2), son of Jacob, was born in Lancaster county, and there
  acquired such education as fell to the lot of pioneer lads. He worked for his
  father in his young manhood, and also for two years after the removal of the
  family to Cumberland county. When he started out for himself, he rented land
  where his son, Jacob B. now resides, and then moved to his father-in-law's
  home, along the State road in West Pennsboro township. He next went to West
  Hill, where he bought a small place, and that was his home at the time of his
  death Oct. 22, 1878. He married Susie Bowman, daughter of Samuel and Susan
  Bowman, of Cumberland county. She died in 1856. They were the parents of the
  following children: Lizzie, living in Baltimore; Martha, of Missouri; Susan,
  of Mechanicsburg, this county; Jacob B.; and Mary, Fannie and Annie, all
  three living at West Hill.
    
    
    JACOB B. SEITZ was born in West Pennsboro township, in 1841, and there grew
  to manhood, attending school at such times as his services were not needed at
  home. He worked for his father until his marriage, and then located at West
  Hill, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits for six years. In 1882 he
  bought the old home farm of 156 acres, and moved there. The barn was erected
  in 1800, and the residence in 1802, but both were substantial structures, and
  had always been well cared for. On Nov. 28, 1876, he married Lizzie H. Bear,
  daughter of John and Mary Bear, of West Pennsboro township. Seven children
  have blessed their union: John B.; Harvey E., at Carlisle, where he is
  superintendent of the Carlisle Nursery Company's green houses; Elmer,
  attending Dickinson College; and Mary, Sue, Warren and Raymond, at home. For
  generations the family have been known as God-fearing Christians, and while
  the original founder of the family in America was a Dunkard minister, the
  later members have belonged to the Diller Church of Old Mennonites.
    
    John B. Seitz is, like his father, a native of West Pennsboro township. He
  has grown up on the old homestead, where he still lives, assisting his father
  in all its work, and gradually preparing himself, as the eldest of the family,
  to shoulder the responsibilities. He is very active in Church work, and is
  superintendent of the Sunday School of the Old Mennonites, in which faith he
  is a deacon. He has so ordered his life as to be well worthy the high esteem
  in which he is held.