L.W. SEELY, another prominent member of the San Francisco bar, was born in Pennsylvania, in 1858. His ancestors were early settlers of Pennsylvania, and filled honorable positions in life. His great-grandfather was born in that State, and was an officer in the Revolutionary war. His father, Colonel F.W. Seely, is likewise a native of the […]
Justus W. Seely, 2nd, president of the town board of Castle Dale and one of the pioneer settlers of Emery county, was born in Salt Lake City, June 25, 1850. His father, Justus W. Seely, was one of the first converts to the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, joining that […]
SEELY, JUSTUS WELLINGTON (son of Justus Azel Seely and Mehitable Bennett). Born Jan. 30, 1815, Pickering, Canada. Came to Utah September, 1847, John Taylor company. Married Clarissa Jane Wilcox March 10, 1842, Charleston, Iowa (daughter of Hazard Wilcox, Jr. and Sarah Seely of Charleston, Iowa, pioneers Sept. 29, 1847, John Taylor company). She was born […]
SEELY, JUSTUS AZEL (son of Justus Seely of Canada). Born Nov. 17, 1779, in Connecticut. Came to Utah Sept. 29, 1847, John Taylor company. Married Mehitable Bennett 1800, Luzerne, Pa. She was born Nov. 17, 1779. Their children: Rachel b. Sept. 1801, m. Parlin Webb; John, died; Elizabeth, m. James Young; Mary b. Jan. 24, […]
JONAS SEELY, from whom a large branch of the Seely family in this country sprung, came from England in 1690, and settled in Stanford, Connecticut. Other branches of the family spell their names differently. The parents of Josiah W. Seely, the subject of this brief biography, were Henry and Clarissa (Lyon) Seely, residents of Bainbridge, […]
Joseph S. Seely is the owner of the lake called by his name and is the proprietor of Lakeside, a charming resort for pleasure-seekers of Weld County. The lake is an artificial one, having been made in 1873, and originally served merely as a waste-reservoir for Ditch No. 2, which irrigates this section of farming […]
JOSEPH OWEN SEELY is in the eighth generation of the descendants of Robert Seely, the ancestor of a family now spread through the country. Robert came with the Winthrop colony in 1630, and was a surveyor in the vicinity of Boston for a time, but afterward became one of the founders of the New Haven […]
SEELY (Seeley, Seelye), JOSEPH, militiaman; b. 1786, probably in western Quebec, son of Augustus Seelye (Sealey); m. with children; last known to be living in 1814. Details concerning the Seely family are scarce. Seelys from Connecticut were common in New Brunswick and in the Johnstown District of Upper Canada [see Caleb Seely*; Peet Selee*], and […]
The subject of this memoir was born in Walton, Delaware Co., N.Y., Feb. 1, 1, 1804. He was the eighth of a family of nine children of Sylvanus Seely and Mary Hoyt, both natives of Connecticut. His father was a privateer in the navy of the United States during the Revolutionary war, was taken prisoner […]
Jonas Seely, born July 23, 1776, – succeeded to the office of supervisor, by election in April 1808, and held the same by repeated re-elections to and including the year 1814. He was again elected to the same office in 1822, 1826 and 1833. In 1821, (with Hon. Robert S. Rose, of Fayette), he was […]
