San Joaquin County Biographies


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LORENZ SEIFERT.
 
        A trusted employee of the Wagner Leather Company who holds the unusual 
record of almost a half century's continuous service with this concern, is 
Lorenz Seifert, an esteemed citizen of San Joaquin County since the early days 
of 1870. Mr. Seifert is a native of Bavaria, Germany, born there April 1, 1851. 
His father, Bernhardt Seifert, was a fruit grower and a cloth manufacturer who 
married Barbara Krimm, Lorenz, being the second oldest of their nine children, 
only three of whom are living. Besides Lorenz there is Bernhardt, who lived in 
Germany and a sister, Mrs. Roth, who resides adjoining our subject. Reared in 
the farming district, where he received a good education in the local schools, 
the early years of his life were spent in various occupations�in the meat 
business, on farms and in a furnace factory, and traveling on the road for the 
latter.
        In June, 1870, Mr. Seifert came to the United States and located at 
Buffalo, N. Y., where he worked in a brickyard until December before coming to 
California. For several years after arriving at Stockton he worked for the 
Pioneer Tannery, and in 1874 he entered the employ of the Wagner Leather 
Company. He learned all the branches of the tanning business and became skilled 
and proficient in the handling of leather, so that for close to half a century 
he has been one of the company's most capable and appreciated employees, still 
active in its business.
        In Stockton, in December, 1877, Mr. Seifert was married to Miss Lena 
Fetters, born in Bavaria, and they reared a fine family of children, all 
upright, industrious citizens and assets to the communities where they reside. 
They are: Mrs. Lena Eldringham of Acampo has one child; Elizabeth, the wife of 
Walter Templeton of Stockton, is the mother of two children; Gussie, Mrs. Joseph 
Lynch of San Francisco; Dora is the wife of Henry Green, a contractor of 
Stockton, and they are the parents of two children: Mrs. Anna Ellis of Stockton, 
and one son, Christopher Seifert, is also with the Wagner Leather Company. 
Beloved by her family and many friends, Mrs. Seifert passed away in 1914. In the 
early years of his residence here Mr. Seifert was a member of the Turnverein, 
and he is now affiliated with the Druids. In religious circles he gives his 
support to the German Lutheran Church, contributing generously to its worthy 
causes. In 1876 he bought his lot at 1228 East Oak Street and built the 
comfortable residence, where he has resided ever since. He has built several 
other places which he has disposed of.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p     630
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.