Biography

04/12/1813 - 02/15/1888

SEIDEL, John Barr, a Representative from Lebanon County; born, April 12, 1813 in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pa.; engaged, iron manufacturing (41 years); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Republican in 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); died, February 15, 1888 in Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.