Maker/Dealer
Wm Seidel
Elkhart, Indiana
USA
1914 - 1918
Seidel Band Instrument Co.
1848 William F. Seidel (Neukirchen, 1848-1922)
(Â Â Â Â ) apprenticed in Markneukirchen
- 1870 Seidel moves to London, making brass instruments
- 1878 Seidel marries Harriet
- 1881 Conn meets Seidel in London and has him move to the US
to help in his factory
- 1894 Seidel is naturalized a US citizen
- 1900 Seidel is living at #208 N. Main St., Elkhart; listed in the
census as a horn maker
- 1910 now listed in census as foreman for horn factory; a 1916
article says he was the superintendent for the entire plant
- 1913 Seidel resigns from Conn due to health yet also establishes
the Seidel Band Instrument Company
- 1918 the company is sold to Couturier
- 1920 the census still has him living at #208 N. Main St.; he is
listed as a laborer in a horn factory (Buescher)
- 1922 failing eyesight causes Seidel to commit suicide
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