Son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach. Husband of Mary Brymer.
JOHN W. DRIESBACH, flour, feed, and commission merchant, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Salem township, this county, February, 26, 1837, a son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach, and is of German and English descent. His father, as well as his paternal grandfather, John Driesbach, millers by occupation, were both pioneers of Salem township, and lived and died there. His maternal grandfather, John W. Seeley, was a pioneer farmer of the same township. Our subject was reared in Salem, where he received a common-school education, and served an apprenticeship of three years at the miller's trade. Afterward he worked as a journeyman until 1866, when he embarked in business for himself, conducting what is known as the Seybert Mill, until 1868; then was manager of a mill for an uncle for two years. In 1870 he located in Wilkes-Barre, where he managed a mill fifteen years, and since 1885 he has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Driesbach is a member of the F. & A.M. and A.L. of H.; in politics, he is a Republican and has served one term as school director of Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Board of Trade, of which he was an active organizer and is one of the trustees; he was an efficient aid and participant in securing the building here of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Mills, the first of its kind in the United States, and the largest in the world, and has been a director in the same from its organization.
Source: History of Luzerne County PA, H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893, PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
JOHN W. DRIESBACH, flour, feed, and commission merchant, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Salem township, this county, February, 26, 1837, a son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach, and is of German and English descent. His father, as well as his paternal grandfather, John Driesbach, millers by occupation, were both pioneers of Salem township, and lived and died there. His maternal grandfather, John W. Seeley, was a pioneer farmer of the same township. Our subject was reared in Salem, where he received a common-school education, and served an apprenticeship of three years at the miller's trade. Afterward he worked as a journeyman until 1866, when he embarked in business for himself, conducting what is known as the Seybert Mill, until 1868; then was manager of a mill for an uncle for two years. In 1870 he located in Wilkes-Barre, where he managed a mill fifteen years, and since 1885 he has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Driesbach is a member of the F. & A.M. and A.L. of H.; in politics, he is a Republican and has served one term as school director of Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Board of Trade, of which he was an active organizer and is one of the trustees; he was an efficient aid and participant in securing the building here of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Mills, the first of its kind in the United States, and the largest in the world, and has been a director in the same from its organization.
Source: History of Luzerne County PA, H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893, PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach. Husband of Mary Brymer.
JOHN W. DRIESBACH, flour, feed, and commission merchant, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Salem township, this county, February, 26, 1837, a son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach, and is of German and English descent. His father, as well as his paternal grandfather, John Driesbach, millers by occupation, were both pioneers of Salem township, and lived and died there. His maternal grandfather, John W. Seeley, was a pioneer farmer of the same township. Our subject was reared in Salem, where he received a common-school education, and served an apprenticeship of three years at the miller's trade. Afterward he worked as a journeyman until 1866, when he embarked in business for himself, conducting what is known as the Seybert Mill, until 1868; then was manager of a mill for an uncle for two years. In 1870 he located in Wilkes-Barre, where he managed a mill fifteen years, and since 1885 he has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Driesbach is a member of the F. & A.M. and A.L. of H.; in politics, he is a Republican and has served one term as school director of Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Board of Trade, of which he was an active organizer and is one of the trustees; he was an efficient aid and participant in securing the building here of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Mills, the first of its kind in the United States, and the largest in the world, and has been a director in the same from its organization.
Source: History of Luzerne County PA, H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893, PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
JOHN W. DRIESBACH, flour, feed, and commission merchant, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Salem township, this county, February, 26, 1837, a son of Adam and Huldah (Seeley) Driesbach, and is of German and English descent. His father, as well as his paternal grandfather, John Driesbach, millers by occupation, were both pioneers of Salem township, and lived and died there. His maternal grandfather, John W. Seeley, was a pioneer farmer of the same township. Our subject was reared in Salem, where he received a common-school education, and served an apprenticeship of three years at the miller's trade. Afterward he worked as a journeyman until 1866, when he embarked in business for himself, conducting what is known as the Seybert Mill, until 1868; then was manager of a mill for an uncle for two years. In 1870 he located in Wilkes-Barre, where he managed a mill fifteen years, and since 1885 he has been engaged in his present business. Mr. Driesbach is a member of the F. & A.M. and A.L. of H.; in politics, he is a Republican and has served one term as school director of Wilkes-Barre. He was a member of the Board of Trade, of which he was an active organizer and is one of the trustees; he was an efficient aid and participant in securing the building here of the Wilkes-Barre Lace Mills, the first of its kind in the United States, and the largest in the world, and has been a director in the same from its organization.
Source: History of Luzerne County PA, H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893, PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
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