Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Seddinger, George Marshall October 10, 1915
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Virginian-Pilot  October 11, 1915
George Marshall Seddinger, an engi­neer of the Norfolk Fire Department, died 
yesterday at a local hospital, aged 67 years. Mr. Seddinger had been with the 
local department since the first year of its organization in 1872, or forty-three 
years. He entered the ser­vice as an engineer and has held this
position ever since he came to Nor­folk. He saw the development of the local fire 
service from the days when it was only a small one-horse affair to the present 
time of gasoline trucks, extensive hook-and-ladder appliances and high water 
pressure capable of throwing streams of water a hundred feet in the air.

Mr. Seddinger was the dean of his department and was highly regarded both in his 
official and personal ca­pacity by all his associates. He had a wide acquaintance 
in Norfolk, espe­cially in the city official circles.

Mr. Seddinger had been in failing health for the past year and his last
illness was of two and one-half weeks duration. He is survived by one son, William 
A, Seddinger, of this city; three sisters. Mrs. Elizabeth Dey, Mrs.
Maggie Chester and Mrs. R. E. Lin­der, all of Philadelphia; one brother, John 
Seddinger, of California, and one grandchild, William Consolvo Seddin­ger, of this 
city.

A paid department was organized in Norfolk in December, 1871. There had been two 
volunteer fire companies previous to the organization of a paid company, but 
bitter feeling was engendered be­tween these by competition for favors from the 
fire committee, and late in 1871, a riot took place between the factions which 
resulted in the killing of several and the wounding of many. The councils immedi­ 
ately decided to abolish the two volun­teer organizations and to establish a paid
company, of which Mr. Seddinger was among the early members.

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