WI BIO - Dodge Co - ZEIDLER, Ludwig
History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 
1880, p 675

Ludwig ZEIDLER, merchant and Postmaster for Lomira [Dodge County, Wisconsin], 
was born in Prussia in 1826, and was educated in his native land. He was 
five years a Prussian soldier, and fought through the revolution of 1848. 
Ludwig ZEIDLER came to America in 1852 and settled on a farm in Lomira. At 
this time not a house existed in the present village, and the country to the 
east was heavily timbered.

Mr. Ludwig ZEIDLER improved his land and was a farmer of Dodge County about 
twenty-one years. He settled in Lomira and began business in 1873, and was 
appointed Postmaster the same year. Mr. ZEIDLER has a general stock of 
goods, viz., dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, glassware, 
crockery, notions, etc., and still owns a farm of 118 acres.

In 1851 Ludwig ZEIDLER married Miss Julia BERTON. Ludwig and Julia (BERTON) 
ZEIDLER have five living children: Bertha, Louis, Paul, Helene, and Anna. 
Ludwig ZEIDLER's son, Paul, is by trade a watchmaker, and works in the store 
[in Lomira]. Mr. [Ludwig] ZEIDLER is a Democrat, and he has been, and is 
now, Town Treasurer. Ludwig ZEIDLER is a member of the Lutheran Church.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly