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Descendants of Jacob Franz Seib

Generation No. 1

1. JACOB FRANZ¹ SEIB was born 11-28-1795 in Dieberg, Germany, and died 11-16-1852 in Bingen on Rhine, Germany. He married MARGARETHE LINDNER. She was born 2-21-1803 in Mainz, Germany, and died 2-28-1877 in New York City, NY.

Notes for JACOB FRANZ SEIB:
In his preface to his Seib family history, written by E.G. Freyer in Beirut, Syria, on October 31,1912, Edward writes:

"It is to be regretted that so little material is accessible in America of the early life and work of our grandparents, yet we know that grandfather and grandmother Seib were of the middle class, a hard working people of the Rhein valley.

Grandfather (Jacob Seib) died in 1852 leaving a widow (Margaretha) with a large family of children, most of them quite young. Several of the older sons had gone to America to seek work and found homes. Yet it meant no small amount of faith and courage for that mother (at the age of 53) to embark for America with the remaining children in 1856, there to establish a new home which served as a model for many others which have since come into existence.

The high esteem in which the Seib family was held in the town of Bingen was accorded the mother and children when they settled in New York. Honesty, industry and all which makes for civic righteousness was exemplified in their every day life and wherever they settled their influence was for good and they commanded the respect of those who know them."

Notes for MARGARETHE LINDNER:
Several years after the death of her husband, Margarethe Seib immigrated from Germany to New York. The passenger list of the Bark Griffon, which sailed from Havre to New York arriving on November 1856 lists five of her children . . . Jacob (28), Lisette (Elisabeth, 24), Joseph (21), Elenor (15) and Anna (13) . . . and a nephew also named Jacob(13). It is not clear whether Margarethe and Paulina did not appear on the manifest or if they immigrated before or after this group.

Children of JACOB SEIB and MARGARETHE LINDNER are:

	i.	FRANZ² SEIB, b. 6-21-1823, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	ii.	HEINRICH SEIB, b. 12-19-1824, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	iii.	WILHELM SEIB, b. 9-14-1826, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 11-11-1828, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	iv.	JOHANN BAPTIST SEIB, b. 3-28-1828, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	v.	JACOB SEIB, b. 8-13-1829, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	vi.	ADAM JOSEPH SEIB, b. 9-13-1831, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 10-11-1831, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	vii.	ELISABETH SEIB, b. 9-2-1832, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	viii.	WILHELM SEIB, b. 2-21-1834, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 12-29-1835, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	ix.	JOSEPH SEIB, b. 11-20-1835, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	x.	MATTHAIS SEIB, b. 12-31-1837, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
2.	xi.	PAULINA SEIB, b. 3-21-1839, Bingen-on-Rhein, Darmstat, Germany; d. 12-30-1883, New York City, NY.
	xii.	ELENORE SEIB, b. 11-21-1840, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	xiii.	ANNA SEIB, b. 1-1-1843, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 12-17-1920, New York City, New York; m. HENRY WEILER, 1863; b. 8-7-1841, Freinsheim, Germany; d. 8-11-1907, New York City, New York.

Notes for ANNA SEIB:
"Aunt Weiler" was born Anna Seib on January 1, 1843 in Bingen on the Rhine, Germany and was the 11th of 15 children. Her father died in 1852. Following his death, Anna's mother, Margaretha Seib emigrated to American arriving in New York on October 22, 1856 She was accompanied by several of her children including Anna (age 13) and her older sister Paulina (age 16).

In 1860, four years after arriving in America, Paulina married Heinrich (Henry) Hopfensack, who was from Weimar, Germany. The couple, who lived in New York, had eight children, three of whom died as infants or at birth. Paulina died in December 1883, her husband having died almost four years earlier, leaving five girls who ranged in age from 2 to 16 years old.

Meanwhile, Anna married Henry Weiler, also a German immigrant. The couple suffered the loss of both of their children, sons who had died at birth or as young children. The Weilers quite generously took in and raised Paulina's five daughters: Elizabeth, Dorathea (Dora), Annie, Pauline and Emma Louise. Aunt Weiler, as she was always addressed, was dearly loved and admired by Paulina's five girls. Photos indicate that she was visited on several occasions by her daughters after they had left home and that she came to La Grange to visit. The last trip Emma took to New York to visit Aunt Weiler was in 1920 by train, accompanied by her children. Grace was four years old at the time. Aunt Weiler died in December of that year; Henry having died 13 years earlier.

Henry Weiler was a construction engineer who built the docks in New York City for trans-Atlantic steamers. He accumulated enough wealth to ensure that his newly-created family was well taken care of. The Weilers also traveled to Europe and brought back lovely gifts of jewelry for the girls. The Weilers lived in a brownstone across from Central Park at 155 East 70th Street in Manhattan. Anna and Henry spent time at their summer house in Westchester County, New York.

Notes for HENRY WEILER:
Henry Weiler was born in 1841 and emmigrated to the United States in 1856 at the age of fifteen. Henry was a construction engineer for the New York City transportation authority and constructed docks for ocean going ships. He became comfortably wealthy and had a summer home (with servant) in Westchester County on Long Island.

More About HENRY WEILER:
Fact 1: Construction engineer - NYC docks for ocean liners
Fact 2: Lived across from Central Park
Fact 3: Summer home in Westchester County, NY

	xiv.		ANTON SEIB, b. 3-1-1844, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 3-3-1856, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.
	xv.		CHRISTIAN SEIB, b. 1-12-1845, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany; d. 7-28-1846, Bingen on the Rhine, Germany.

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