The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

Among those who have attained distinct prestige in the practice of medicine and surgery in the city of Newark. and whose success has come as the logical sequel of thorough technical information, as enforced by natural predilection and that sympathy and tact which are the inevitable concomitants of precedence in the profession, is Dr. Seidler. He is a native of Newark. having been born in the tenth ward of this city on the 16th of September, 1860, the son of William F. and Amelia (Deisler) Seidler, the former of whom was born in Ziegenheim, Germany, and the latter in Baden, in the same great empire. William F. Seidler, Sr., was an architect and builder in the fatherland, and upon attaining his majority he determined to seek his fortune in America, emigrating and arriving in New York in the year 1850. In the national metropolis was celebrated his marriage to Miss Deisler, in 1856, and soon afterward he removed with his wife to Newark, New Jersey, where he engaged in the marble business upon his own responsibility, continuing in this line of enterprise, with due measure of success, until the time of his death, which occurred about the year 1883.
William Fred Seidler, the immediate subject of this review, secured his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools of Newark. and after leaving school he became interested in his father’s business, to which he devoted his attention for a short time. His natural tastes and inclinations, however, led him aside from the circumscribed province of this line of enterprise, and he secured a position in a drug store, where he remained until 1878, devoting himself assiduously to a study of the technicalities of the science of pharmacy and becoming so proficient that he was enabled to pass a successful examination before the state board of pharmacy in 1879. He graduated thereafter at the College of Pharmacy in 1884, and he continued to be identified with pharmaceutical work, as a registered clerk, until about 1887, when he engaged in business for himself, by effecting the purchase of his present drug store, at No. 21 Ferry street, which was the first drug store on the east side of the railroad, established in 1862.
Identified with an enterprise intimately allied to the medical profession, it was but in natural sequence that Mr. Seidler should eventually turn his attention to the latter. He matriculated as a student in Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1889, completing a two—years course, and graduating as a member of the class of 1891. Immediately after his graduation he returned to Newark and entered upon the active practice of his profession, while still continuing in the drug business. Dr. Seidler has made a specialty of surgical work and has attained distinguished precedence in this branch of his profession, as well as in general practice. He keeps thoroughly in touch with all advances made in the sciences of medicine and surgery, and, indeed, it may be justly said that he is a leader of the forward movements, being closely analytical in his methods, discriminating and painstaking in his investigation, and ever signally alive to the welfare of his patients, which characteristics should govern this most important of professions.
From 1891 to 1895 the Doctor was district physician, and for six years he has served as house surgeon of St .Michael‘s Hospital. He is also visiting physician of the German Hospital, chief of the genitor-urinary clinic in the city dispensary, and is a member of the State Medical Society, the Essex County Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and of the Aesculapian Society, of which he~ was the first incumbent as president. Socially he is identified with the Essex County Country Club, and his interest in military affairs is indicated by his retaining membership in the Essex Troop, National Guard, New Jersey Militia.⁸