Carbon-Weber County UT Archives Biographies.....Seidner, Maximilian Jean 1893 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

MAXIMILIAN JEAN SEIDNER, M. D.

    Almost every nationality is represented in the cosmopolitan citizenship of
Carbon county and among those that Russia has furnished to Utah is Dr.
Maximilian Jean Seidner, who was born in that country, November 5, 1893, his
parents being Samuel and Mary (Neuman) Seidner, who came to the United States
when their son Maximilian J. was a youth of seventeen years. They established
their home in Chicago and there Dr. Seidner, who had had seven years' schooling
in Germany, with a year and a half devoted to a commercial course in high
school, entered a factory, in which he was employed for a year. He afterward
spent four years in a department store and during that period was attending
night school, thus acquainting himself not only with branches of learning but
with the language and customs of the people among whom his lot had been cast.
Upon him devolved the support of his mother, so that it was impossible for him
to attend the day school. However, he finished his high school course in night
school and then entered upon the study of medicine in Chicago College of
Medicine and Surgery. In order to meet his expenses he worked at night while
preparing for the practice of medicine and surgery and he completed his medical
course in 1917, at which time his professional degree was conferred upon him.

    Seeking the opportunities of the west, Dr. Seidner made his way to Ogden,
Utah, where he entered the Dee Memorial Hospital as house physician and surgeon,
thus remaining, for a year and gaining that broad and valuable experience which
is never acquired as quickly in any other way as in hospital practice. Following
America's entrance into the great World war, he joined the army and served at
the hospital at Camp Lewis until December, 1918, when he was released from
military duty but reenlisted in the Medical Reserve as first lieutenant. Soon,
afterward he obtained a position as surgeon with the Spring Canyon Coal Company
and with the Peerless Coal Company, having his headquarters at Storrs, and he is
still connected with the two corporations in a professional capacity.

    At Salt Lake City, on the 20th of August, 1918, Dr. Seidner was married to
Miss Gertrude Evertsen, a graduate nurse of the Dee Hospital of Ogden and a
daughter of J. W. and Hendrina (Coppenberg) Evertsen, who were natives of
Holland and came to Utah in 1912, settling at Ogden, where they now reside.

    Dr. Seidner is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, having
his membership in the lodge at Storrs, and chairman of the American Legion, of
Storrs. Through individual effort he has become a man of scholarly attainments,
and through broad reading he keeps in touch with the trend of modern
professional thought and progress, acquainting himself with all that scientific
research brings to light which bears upon medical and surgical practice.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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