Bio: Seydel, James A.
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---Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 217.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF JAMES A. SEYDEL

JAMES A. SEYDEL, cashier of the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Co., was born in Kane Co., Illinois, April 6, 1851. In 1853, his parents removed with their family to Pennsylvania, remaining there eighteen months; then went to Virginia, where they lived seven years, and from 1861 to 1866, resided in Washington, D.C.; afterwards in Dauphin, Pa., for one year, in Williamsport, Pa., seven years; from there he came to Chippewa Falls. He was married here Nov. 5, 1877, to Ida E. Biaisdell, a native of Maine. They have one child, James Herbert, born in August, 1878.