Frank A. Seiberling, rubber entrepreneur, stands at the main entrance to Stan Hywet Hall, a family home and a cultural legacy.
Photo was taken in 1942 by John F. Seiberling Jr., a grandson, who was to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
In 1940 TIME Magazine tells a story of high finance and high-stakes wheeling and dealing.

F.A. Seiberling family portrait taken about 1908
Back: Irene Henrietta Seiberling (1890-1999), John Frederick "Fred" Seiberling (1888-1962), Willard Penfield Seiberling (1892-1981)
Middle: Gertrude Ferguson Penfield "Granny Sei" Seiberling (1866-1946), Franklin August "F.A." Seiberling (1859-1955)
Front: James Penfield "Pen" Seiberling (1898-1982), Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling, Jr. (1908-1990), Gertrude Virginia "Ginny" Seiberling (1899-1971)

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A high school photo taken of daughter Irene in about 1905

Frank A. Seiberling's wife, Gertrude, with their son, Franklin, taken about 1915.
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Frank Seiberling Jr. and his future wife, Nancy Pendleton Jackson, in spring of 1941—A press photo taken on the advent of their wedding announcement.

Christmas at Stan Hywet Hall, 1945
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Frank A. Seiberling Sr., Jr. and 3rd—1945

John Frederick Seiberling Jr. • Edward (Ned) A. Handy • Frank A. Seiberling Jr.
Taken in 1945. Ned Handy is the son of Virginia Seiberling Handy, sister of F. A. Seiberling Sr.

Cedar Lodge—1951

Dock at Cedar Lodge—1951

Grace Seiberling Chase—1951
She was a sister of F. A. Seiberling

Ellen Kurtz—1951
Ellen, Grace Chase's adopted daughter, devoted many years to caring for her elderly mother, and died soon after Grace Chase's passing.

Judy and John Shaw on a trip to Asia
Judy Shaw is the daughter of Willard Seiberling.

Frank Seiberling Jr., Irene Harrison, Willard Seiberling, Penfield Seiberling
At Irene Harrison's 90th birthday celebration in 1980 at Stan Hywet Hall
At that time they were the last surviving children of F. A. Seiberling and Gertrude.

Irene Harrison's 90th birthday celebration in 1980
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At a Seiberling family reunion at Stan Hywet Hall in 2005
Shows Grandchildren of F. A. Seiberling and Gertrude in middle row.

Nancy Seiberling and Frank Seiberling Jr. at their Iowa Home—Fairhill—c 1980
Image is patterned after an 1879 Edouard Manet portrait, "Le couple Guillemet dans la serre."