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SEIPPEL, Peter J.
SEIPPEL, Peter J. (Schoenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 7, 1862--Dubuque, IA, Feb. 28, 1916). President, Seippel Lumber Company. Seippel became one of eastern Iowa's most successful lumbermen.
At the age of twenty, Seippel came to Dubuque and graduated from BAYLESS BUSINESS COLLEGE. He worked with Charles Robinson, a local lumberman, for three years and then formed a partnership with Joseph A. MEUSER. They operated a small lumber company in East Dubuque until 1897 .
In February 1897, Seippel sold his interest in the company and came to Dubuque where he organized his own lumber company. This occupied ten city blocks and handled an estimated twenty-five million feet of lumber.
In 1906 the Seippel Company absorbed Builders Supply, successor of the Rumpf-Frudden Company. One year later the Seippel Company merged with the Meuser Brothers Lumber Company. In 1907 Seippel founded the Seippel Timber Company of which he also served as president.