BIO:  N. Z. 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 181

N. Z. SEITZ was born in Shrewsbury Township near Glen Rock, York Co., Penn., January 20, 1843, 
and is one of a family of ten children – seven sons and three daughters.  His father, Michael 
Seitz, and his mother, Anna Mary Zeigler, are natives of the same township, while the great-
great-grandfathers of both were natives of Germany, but came to this country when quite young, 
and were sold as slaves to pay for their steerage.  The subject of this sketch lived on the 
farm with his father near Glen Rock, Penn., until seventeen years of age, in the meantime 
attending public and select schools at intervals.  At the beginning of the late civil war, not 
yet eighteen years of age, he entered the Union army, enlisting in Company D, Eighty-seventh 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in which he served for three years, and was promoted to a 
non-commissioned officer.  He subsequently re-entered the service as first lieutenant of 
Company B, Sixty-seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was soon promoted to captain, in 
which capacity he held various important positions, and served until after the close of the 
war.  On his return home he entered the profession of teaching, having charge of public and 
select schools up to 1371, during which time he was also special contributor to various 
newspapers.  In January, 1871, he became one of the editors and publishers of the Glen Rock 
Item, shortly thereafter taking editorial control of the paper, and continuing so up to the 
present time.  During this period he has also edited a temperance paper, a musical journal and 
an educational monthly.  He was three times commissioned as justice of the peace, served on the 
York County Commission to reaudit the war claims for the county; was one of the deputy marshals 
in taking the census of 1870; has been school director in his town, and has held other 
important local positions of trust.  He has been active in most of the public movements in his 
section, having served a number of years as president of the Shrewsbury District Sunday-school 
Institute; two years as the president of the York County Sunday-school Union, and two years as 
the president of the York County Educational Society, which latter position he is holding at 
this time.  He has delivered a number of lectures and addresses on educational and scientific 
subjects; is an active member of the Masonic fraternity, K. of P. and G. A. R., and has held 
important positions in these organizations.  He was one of the conferees that nominated the 
Hon. William A. Duncan the second time for congress in the Nineteenth Congressional District.