Lawrence Seyller

SEYLLER, HAEMASER, GOEMBEL

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1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 784

LAWRENCE SEYLLER, a prominent
farmer and successful stock-raiser of
Cameron Township, was born in Ger-
many, August 5, 1850, and is a son of
George and Catherine (Haemaser) Seyller.
They are the parents of thirteen children, of
whom the following are living -- John,Charles,
Conrad, Catherine, George, Nelson, Law-
rence (the subject of this biographical sketch),
Frank and August. The father is a farmer
by occupation. He emigrated with his family
to America when Lawrence was an infant,
and settled on a farm in Cook County, Illi-
nois, remaining there one year; he then re-
moved to Henry County, Illinois, and bought
a farm, on which he still resides. He has
been prosperous since coming to America,
and has accumulated a comfortable compe-
tence for his declining years. Lawrence
Seyller is the sixth of the family. He received
a district-school education, and was trained to
agricultural pursuits. He continued under
the parental roof until his twenty-first year,
when he started in life on his own account.
He learned the carpenter's trade, at which he
worked for twelve years. Having laid by
some money he came to Iowa in 1881 and in-
vested in land; he bought 440 acres, eighty
acres lying in Viola Township, and the bal-
ance in Cameron Township. Mr. Seyller
was not able to pay for all the land in the
beginning, but his hope of success in the
future, upon which he depended, was fully
realized. He began by raising grain exten-
sively, and later he paid more attention to the
raising of hogs and cattle, until in 1888 he
shipped five car-loads from his own farm, and
in 1889 four car-loads. His farm is well
stocked with a large number of hogs and
cattle. He has some fine thoroughbred Po-
langus and Poland-China hogs, and is mak-
ing a specialty of breeding this stock. Mr.
Seyller was united in marriage in 1875 to
Miss Elizabeth Goembel, of Henry County,
Illinois, the fourth child of Henry and Cath-
erine Goembel; she was born in Stark County,
Illinois. Four children have been born of
this marriage -- Vida I., Lee Roy, Mollie
May and Hazel C. In politics Mr. Seyller
is conservative, voting for the man rather
than the party. He began life with pluck
and determination to succeed, and the result
can best be realized by visiting his farm,
which is a model in every respect, having
all the modern conveniences for practical
farming.