BIOS: James Watson SEIBERT, Milford, Somerset County, PA

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Vol. XXXII, Containing Life Sketches of Leading 
Citizens of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania. Boston, 
Biographical Review Publishing Company: 1899, pp 106-107.

  James Watson Seibert, an enterprising farmer of Milford, Somerset 
County, Pa., was born in the town of Somerset, this county, on August 
22, 1856, son of the Rev. James L. W. and Barbara (Weller) Seibert.  
His mother was a daughter of Ludwick Weller, who married a Miss 
Countryman.
  The Rev. James L. W. Seibert, an able minister of the Evangelical 
Association, was born on May 2, 1826, near Woodstock, Va., in the 
Shenandoah Valley.  He was settled as pastor over a number of different 
churches in Somerset and other counties in Pennsylvania.  Later in life 
he became the editor of the Evangelical Messenger, the organ of the 
Evangelical Association, published in Cleveland, Ohio.  He was a 
delegate to the Evangelical Conference held in Toronto, Canada.  He 
died on September 13, 1897, in the seventy-first year of his age.  Nine 
children, three sons and six daughters, were born to him and his wife, 
Barbara; namely, Ellen, Amelia Clarissa, Amanda Myra, James Watson, 
William O., Elizabeth, John Henry, Alice Jane, and Florence 
Nightingale.  Ellen married Gilman H. Walker, and resides in Rockwood.  
Amelia Clarissa is the wife of Ephraim Fritz, of Dixon, Ill.  Amanda 
Myra married John Kooser, and resides near Bakersville, Jefferson 
township, Somerset County.  William O. obtained his early education in 
the public schools of Somerset.  He taught in this neighborhood a 
number of years, then entered Northwestern College, Naperville, Ill., a 
school conducted under the auspices of the Evangelical Association.  
After he was graduated he resumed his former occupation of teacher, and 
is now in the West.  John Henry is a farmer in the town of Milford.  
Alice Jane lives with her widowed mother in Somerset.  Florence 
Nightingale is the wife of Frank J. Baker, a merchant, and resides in 
Somerset, Pa.
  Having obtained his education in the public schools of Somerset, 
James Watson Seibert took up agriculture as an occupation, beginning on 
the farm in Somerset where he was born.  He came to his present farm in 
Milford in 1884.  It contains some two hundred acres, and he is devoted 
his attention to general farming with excellent results.  In 1893 he 
was elected to the office of Tax Collector, and at the present time he 
is serving as School Director of the town.
  On July 24, 1895, Mr. Seibert married Belinda, daughter of William 
and Susanna (Braucher) Hay.  Her paternal grandfather, George Hay, was 
a farmer, and with his wife, Mary, lived on a farm in Brother's Valley 
township, Somerset County.  Mr. and Mrs. Seibert have one daughter, 
Gladys Viola.