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PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM
pg. 265, 266
AMOS SEITZ, senior partner of the firm of A. & J. SEITZ, who own and operate the Tremont City Mill, in Clark County, was born December 21, 1842. His father, Andrew SEITZ, was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry. He married Mary CIRCLE, a native of Virginia and also of German descent. About 1830 he came to Clark County, about ten years later moving into Tremont City and becoming owner of an old mill which stood where the new mill now stands. He conducted it as a gristmill, sawmill and distillery, continuing in business in Tremont City many years. He departed this life some years since, but his wife still survives at her former home.
The Tremont City Mill was erected by the father of the present proprietors in 1859, and is a frame building four stories in height. It was put up as a gristmill, but in December, 1889, was refitted with a full roller process of the Centrifugal System. The machinery was manufacture by BARNARD & LEAS of Moline, Ill., and cost about $1,700. The capacity is now thirty barrels in twenty-four hours, and beside their custom work the Messrs. SEITZ do considerable merchant work, manufacturing two special brands—the Centrifugal and the Fancy Family, the former being the better brand. The power used is an overshot water-wheel built of wood and supplied from a millrace connected with Chapman’s Creek. During a part of the dry season, when water becomes scarce, they are obliged to use an engine put in it the fall of 1889. It was manufactured by RUSSELL & CO., of Massillon, and has a capacity of forty horse-power. Two millers and one teamster are employed. The flour which is not ground for custom work is mostly sold to Springfield bakers, though grocers also share the product to some extent.
The subject of this sketch was reared to manhood in this his native county, a portion of his time being spent on a farm, but the greater part of it in a mill. The common schools of the county afforded him good fundamental instruction and developed in him the love of knowledge which has impelled him to add to the limited advantages of his early years much information gleaned from papers, books, and his fellow men. He is therefore well-informed on topics of general interest, especially in those matters which relate to his chosen work. He is classed among the leading business men of Tremont City and is looked upon as a worthy representative of a pioneer family. His political adherence is given to the Democratic party, and his religious faith is that expressed by the creed of the German Reformed Church.
In Miss Dora B., daughter of David MARTIN, of Tremont City, Mr. SEITZ discerned many pleasing qualities such as led him to desire her for his companion in the journey of life. His regard being reciprocated they were united in marriage March 11, 1880. Their happy union has been blessed by the birth of three children: Charles E., Mattie B., and Emma E., who form a bright and interesting group around the family fireside.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Greene and Clark Counties, Ohio
Chapman Bros., Chicago. Copyright 1890.
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