Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Spring Green:

Philip J. Seiders, farmer, Sec. 3; P. 0. Spring Green; was born in Richland Co., Ohio, Oct. 15, 1837; he came to Wisconsin with his parents, Joseph and Eliza Seiders, in 1854, and settled in Spring Green, Sauk Co. At the breaking-out of the war of the rebellion, he enlisted in Lone Rock, Wis., to serve in the 6th Wisconsin Battery, and was in active service the greater part of the time until honorably discharged. He married, in Spring Green, Clarissa R Elwood; they have one son- William R. While in the service, Mr. Seiders was severely wounded in the right shoulder at the battle of Corinth, Miss. He owns a valuable and well-improved farm.

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