BIO:  Benjamin Seitz, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 180

BENJAMIN SEITZ, son of John and Sarah (Schnell) Seitz, of York County, was born March 10, 1843.  
His father was born in Pennsylvania.  Benjamin is the third of seven children, and the second 
son.  His father being a hame-maker, he had to learn that trade early in life, also working on 
the farm and attending the common schools, attending, also, for one term, the State Normal 
School, at Millersville.  At the age of twenty-one his father took him into partnership in 
manufacturing hames and merchandising in Hametown.  The hame manufacturing he has since 
continued, manufacturing about 15,000 pairs per annum.  He was married, at Hametown, November 
24, 1864, to Barbara A. Stermer, daughter of Joseph Stermer, of York County, and has had ten 
children:  Clara Matilda (deceased), William W., Emma L., John H., Sara S., L. Amelia, Barbara 
Ella, Benjamin F., Joseph E. and Annie M.  Mr. Seitz belongs to the Reformed Church and his 
wife to the Lutheran Church.  He is the treasurer of the church, was inspector of elections, 
and is a director of the Shrewsbury & Railroad Station Turnpike Company.