{"id":767,"date":"2018-02-05T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/?p=767"},"modified":"2018-02-05T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T14:20:29","slug":"john-seidler-1907-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/john-seidler-1907-1972\/","title":{"rendered":"John Seidler (1907-1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-e-o\/p562.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Seidler<\/a> was born on 5 Dec 1907 in Newark, NJ, second son of four of Alexander Seidler and Isabella Riker. He is my son-in-law&#8217;s grandfather. Alexander was of German descent, his father came to the US around 1850; Isabella had deep New Netherlands (from <a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-e-o\/p1746.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryck Hendricksen<\/a>, c. 1655) as well as Irish (prob. Scots-Irish, from <a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-e-o\/p1838.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Watson<\/a>, c. 1840)<\/p>\n<p>Alexander was a druggist, and expanded this into the <a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/family\/family-e-o\/ssc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seidler Chemical Company<\/a>;\u00a0 the youngest son took over the business, but in the 1940 census both John and Robert are listed as working for a chemical company, John as salesman, Robert as office manager.<a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yb00562.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-770\" src=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yb00562-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yb00562-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yb00562-332x149.jpg 332w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/yb00562.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John and his brothers all attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ; John graduated in 1924. Coincidentally, John&#8217;s granddaughter-in-law would later teach physics at this same high school.<\/p>\n<p>John married Margaret Ross in 1932. The engagement (as well as the wedding) was announced in the New York Times. The couple had two children.\u00a0But something went wrong, and John married Betty Tiffany in 1943, and had two more children.<\/p>\n<p>In 1966 a disaster: their daughter was killed in a car accident; her mother never quite recovered.<\/p>\n<p>John died of cancer in 1972. His obituary was published in the <em>Record.<\/em>\u00a0Interestingly, while he no longer worked for Seidler Chemical, he was still selling chemicals. He did not stray too far from his roots.\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-773 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-332x331.jpg 332w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-432x432.jpg 432w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web-268x268.jpg 268w, http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/obit-00562-JSeidler-web.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Seidler was born on 5 Dec 1907 in Newark, NJ, second son of four of Alexander Seidler and Isabella Riker. He is my son-in-law&#8217;s grandfather. Alexander was of German descent, his father came to the US around 1850; Isabella had deep New Netherlands (from Ryck Hendricksen, c. 1655) as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,5],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-born-on-this-day","category-family","tag-seidler","column","onecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dutchgenie.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}