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Surnames: SEYBERT, Kline, Galloway,
Classification: Biography
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This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it just has the
insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not researching this family, just
thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these families or these surnames. NOTE:
I don’t know if there is any additional mention of this family in the book, it has no
index. I do not want to sell this book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Surnames in this biography are: SEYBERT, Kline, Galloway,
JOSEPH DEWITT SEYBERT, M. D., is a young physician and surgeon who has proved in his
effective ministrations and unequivocal success the consistency of his choice of vocation,
and he is engaged in active general practice in the City of Kendallville, Noble County.
Doctor Seybert was born at Seybert Station, VanBuren Township, Lagrange County, Indiana,
April 30, 1894, the little village in which he was born being situated on the old
homestead farm and being named in honor of the family of which he is a scion. The Doctor
is a son of Charles and Alice (Kline) Seybert, the former of whom was born at Erie,
Pennsylvania, in 1856, and the latter of whom was born in VanBuren Township, LaGrange
County, Indiana, in 1858. Charles Seybert, a son of John Seybert, was a child of two years
at the time the family home was established on a farm in Lima Township, near Pigeon River,
Lagrange County, Indiana, where he was reared to manhood and where his parents passed the
remainder of their live!
s. He eventually became one of the substantial farmers of Lagrange County, besides which
he owned and conducted a general store at Seybert Station, was there a buyer and shipper
of grain, and there served as postmaster and justice of the peace. His death occurred July
10, 1904, and his widow passed away in the year 1911. The public-school education of
Doctor Seybert culminated when he was graduated in the Linia High School, in 1913, and
thereafter he continued his studies in the University of Indiana until he received there
from the degree of Bachelor of Science, in 1919, and in 1921 the degree of Doctor of
Medicine, upon completion of the prescribed course in its medical department. He further
fortified himself by the clinical experience he gained by serving as interne in Harper
Hospital in the City of Detroit, Michigan, and in the City Hospital of Indianapolis,
Indiana, where he later held the position of assistant physician at the Central Insane
Hospital of Indiana during!
a period of eighteen months. In October, 1923, he established his residence at
Kendallville, where he has since continued in successful general practice and where his
ability and personal popularity have gained to him representative support in the practice
of his profession. The Doctor is a member of the Noble County Medical Society, the Indiana
State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. While a student at the
University of Indiana Doctor Seybert there became a member of Company I, First Infantry
Regiment, and with the Indiana National Guard he was in active military service on the
Mexican border in 1916-17. On the 31st of December, 1917, he enlisted in the United States
navy, for World war service, and he continued to be stationed at Indianapolis until the
armistice brought the war to a close, his honorable discharge having been granted December
20, 1918. He is a member of the American Legion and in his affiliation with the Masonic
fraternity he has recei!
ved the thirty-second degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, besides being a Noble
of the Mystic Shrine. He has affiliation likewise with the Sigma Nu national college
fraternity and the Phi Chi medical fraternity. The doctor is a representative of one of
the sterling pioneer families of Lagrange County, Indiana, and two of his uncles on the
paternal side were loyal young soldiers of the Union in the Civil war. August 23, 1922,
marked the marriage of Doctor Seybert to Miss Mae Galloway, of Hutchinson, Kansas,
and their one child, Joseph Dewitt, Jr., was born May 26, 1928.