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==Biography==
===Career===
Son of a German American entrepreneur from Ohio,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofnorton.org/General%20Info/History/AreaHistory.htm |title=Norton Area History |accessdate=2011-03-02}}</ref> Seiberling spent two years attending [[Heidelberg College]] in [[Tiffin, Ohio]], before joining the J.F. Seiberling Company,
Many businesses failed in the [[Panic of 1896|panics of the 1890s]], including the street railway company owned by Seiberling's father. In 1898, Seiberling was jobless, nearing forty years old, with a wife and three children. He learned of the availability of an old strawboard factory in East Akron, which he purchased, together with the {{convert|7|acre|m2}} it stood on, for $13,500.<ref name="HofF"/> He borrowed $3,500 for a down payment from a brother-in-law, Lucius C. Miles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goodyear.com/corporate/history/history_overview.html |title=Goodyear: History Overview |accessdate=2008-10-06 }}</ref> In partnership with his brother C.W. Seiberling, he decided to open a rubber company, picked a name, and was selling stock. The company would be named for [[Charles Goodyear]], the discoverer of [[vulcanization]], who had died penniless almost forty years before.<ref name="HofF"/>
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