DOB given as 12/24/1844
AMOS D. SIEGFRIED, a farmer of Hanover Township, Northampton County, was born in Moore Township of this county, December 24, 1843. His parents were Jacob and Elizabeth (Petty) Siegfried, and the former was born near Bath, Pennsylvania, in 1792, a fact which indicates that the family has long been represented in this portion of the state.

Amos D. Siegfried was a student in the public schools in his boyhood days, and entered upon his business career as an apprentice at the coachmaker's trade in Bath, Pennsylvania. His term of service covered three years, after which he worked as a journeyman in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in the west. He followed that business for about twelve years, and then became connected with merchandising interests, conducting a furniture and undertaking establishment for eleven years at Bath. He afterward opened a summer hotel at Upper Lehigh, which he conducted for four years. On the expiration of that period he moved upon the old William Dech homestead in Hanover township, Northampton county, and was there engaged in farming for two years, after which he removed to Catasauqua, where he followed carpentering. Later he conducted the Bath Hotel for nearly four years, and was then again connected with building interests for a year in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1898 he returned to the farm, and is to-day the owner of one of the most beautiful and well developed farming properties in Hanover township, Northampton county, its extensive improvements and neat appearance indicating the supervision of a painstaking and progressive owner. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party, and his religious affiliations are with the Lutheran church.

Mr. Siegfried was married in 1869, to Miss Christiana M. Dech, who was born on the old home place, where she now lives, January 9, 1848, a daughter of William and Eliza M. (Heller) Dech. Her father was born November 19, 1817, and was a son of Jacob and Mary M. (Oberly) Dech. Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried are the parents of two children: Harry Dech, born September 24, 1869; and Stella Wilma, born November 17, 1871.