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ARTHUR SEITZ
Originally published in 1900 |
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ARTHUR SEITZ, son of August and Athenias J. A. (Drivel) Seitz, was
born in Hoboken, N. J., December 6, 1855, and received his education in the
public schools and Hoboken Academy, and under a French tutor. At the
age of sixteen he entered the silk house of Linneman, Wehry & Co., of
New York City, and remained one year. He then entered the shipping
house of Salter & Livermore, in New York, and later the employ of the
Hamburg-American Packet Company, as collector. Soon afterward he associated himself with the Domestic Sewing Machine Company as note
clerk, and later in Hoboken with Charles S. Shultz, lumber dealer. In
April, 1882, he engaged in business for himself as a dealer in coal and building materials, under the firm name of Seitz & Campbell (Herbert P. Campbell). In 1883 they opened the Hoboken free stores, the first of the kind
there, which are still in existence, under the name of the Campbell stores.
Mr. Seitz was the first President of this corporation.
Selling out his interest in these stores in 1886, he again engaged in the building material and coal business with Charles Fall, as Seitz & Fall, and soon afterward they began extensive building operations. Mr. Fall withdrew and Thomas H. Mickens became a partner as Seitz & Mickens. This firm continued about five years. Since then Mr. Seitz has been engaged in the contracting and building business alone, and for the last two years in appraising property almost exclusively. In February, 1899, he became one of the organizers of the North River Light, Heat, and Power Company, of Hoboken, of which he was Treasurer. Mr. Seitz has always been a strong Republican, as was his father before him. He has served two terms as a member of the Hoboken Board of Education, is Vice-President of the Hoboken Free Library Commission, is President of the Hoboken Tax Commission, and is President of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Hoboken. He is also Past Master of Advance Lodge, No. 24, A. O. U. W., having served four terms, and is now Representative to the Grand Lodge of New Jersey. He is a member of Hoboken Council, No. 99, Royal Arcanum, was Vice-President and one of the organizers of the Hoboken Chess Club, and was the organizer and one of the first officers of the Philatelic Society of Hoboken, and is still a prominent collector of stamps. He was for several years a member of the Hudson County Republican Committee, has been a delegate to local and State Republican conventions, and has been Chairman of the Hoboken City and Ward Republican Conventions. In April, 1900, Mayor Pagan appointed him a commissioner for Hoboken to the State Exposition to be held in Newark in 1902. Mr. Seitz was married to Miss Helen Jamieson Borthwick, of Hoboken, N. J., April 14, 1887. He is a public spirited citizen, active and influential in all the affairs of the community, deeply interested in American shipping, and highly respected by all who know him.
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