Linus Seely

1848 - 1923  (75 years)

• Name	Linus Seely
  Born	9 May 1848	Richibucto, Kent, NB, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	6 Jul 1850	Cocagne, Kent, NB, Canada
  _UID	7D661A70AF361549A1E4F8AFCA45D8D699CB
  Died	9 Oct 1923	Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I1901	Irving Genealogy
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2011

  
  

  Father	Charles H Seely,   b. 9 Apr 1812, Saint John, Saint John, NB, Canada ,   d. 20 Dec 1894, Wards Corner, Kent, NB, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Jane Irving,   b. Abt 1817, , , Scotland, UK ,   d. 20 Oct 1878, Cocagne, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Married	1834	Richibucto, Kent, NB, Canada   [2]
  _STAT	MARRIED
  _UID	2DF1168E41D56B458B409A503CAB11E71C65
  Family ID	F378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ellen Baker,   b. of: Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA
  Married	1878	Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA
  _STAT	MARRIED
  _UID	03FB5A9542452D4D87DC421062CAEC0CC7CA
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2016
  Family ID	F769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 9 May 1848 - Richibucto, Kent, NB, Canada Baptism - 6 Jul 1850 - Cocagne, Kent, NB, Canada Married - 1878 - Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA Died - 9 Oct 1923 - Portland, Cumberland, ME, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  SEELY, Linus, building contractor and temperance advocate, was born at Richibucto, N.B., Canada, May 9, 1848, son of Charles H. Seely. At the age of twenty he went to Portland, Me., and engaged in lighthouse and fortification construction work for the government in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Subsequently he removed to Buffalo, N.Y., and was employed in similar work, chiefly on Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. He resided in Buffalo for twelve years, and then became inspector of buildings for the police department of New York city under Commissioner Theodore Bingham. Returning to Portland he was associated for six years with Frank A. Rumery in general construction work, and then entered the building business on his own account, his work including contracts for important government structures. Mr. Seely was identified from his youth with the temperance movement, and became a prohibition advocate of national prominence. When a young man he was candidate for mayor of Buffalo and in 1916 for governor of Maine on the Prohibition ticket. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He was a member of the Congregational church for more than forty years, serving as a deacon and a teacher of a large class of young men in the Woodfords Congregational Church, Portland. Mr. Seely was a man of high standards and firm convictions, and possessed a wide range of information upon economic and industrial subjects. He was married in 1878 to Ellen Barker, of Portland, Me., and they had one daughter, deceased. Mr. Seeley died in Portland, Me., Oct. 9, 1923.

  
  

• Sources

  [S572] National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, J.T. White, (NY: J.T. White, 1898-1984), vol. 19 / Page 357 (Reliability: 2). Linus is son of SGS# 3249 [S146] Seelys of New Brunswick, Fanjoy and Ward, (ISBN 0-9696285-0-1), pg 370 (Reliability: 2). {Charles] m. Richibucto NB 7 mar 1834 Jane Irving b. Scotland (d/o James Irving esq. of Richibucto)