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Dr. John J. Seelman. physician and surgeon of Milwaukee and now president of the Milwaukee County Medical Society, was born in Port Washington, Wisconsin, November 12, 1877, and is a son of George Seelman, manufacturer, who is president of the George Seelman & Sons Company of Milwaukee and is mentioned elsewhere in this work.

Dr. Seelman was six years of age when brought to this city, where he has since made his home. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work he prepared for his chosen calling in the Milwaukee Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1901. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Milwaukee for a period of more than two decades and has maintained his office in the Iron block for the past five years, having a well-equipped suite of rooms for offices and laboratories. He makes a specialty of laboratory diagnosis, having one of the largest and best equipped laboratories not only in the west but in the entire United States, and he has attained to a position of distinction in this field of scientific service. He belongs to the Wisconsin State Medical Society, to the Tri-State Medical Association and to the American Medical Association.

On the 20th of June, 1905, Dr. Seelman was united in marriage to Miss Marguerite Reynolds, who was born in Milwaukee and represents one of the old families of the city. Her paternal grandfather was one of the first to establish a home at Greenfield. Dr. and Mrs. Seelman have two daughters: Margaret and Eleanor, aged respectively fifteen and twelve years. Fraternally the doctor is connected with the Knights of Pythias and with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and is a past chancellor in the former organization.