Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Seeley, Carrie F. 1861 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CARRIE F. SEELEY. Among the capable women of Genesee County who have of late
years taken up work outside the home and have shown by success their executive
ability, we are pleased to name Miss Seeley of Mt. Morris Township, who owns and
superintends a fine farm of sixty acres which is situated on section 12, and
also sixty acres in Thetford Township. She was born on the farm where she now
lives, November 28, 1861, and is a daughter of Ansel D. and Frances (Wisner)
Seeley. The father was a native of the Empire State, as he was born in Orleans
County, in 1839; and the mother had her birth in Mt. Morris, Livingston County,
same State, in 1839. Both came to Michigan while quite young and were here
married in the same home occupied by their daughter, January 7, 1861.

  Mr. Seeley settled in Genesee Township, this county, on a farm, the eastern
part of which was afterward platted for the village of Mt. Morris. He was
bereaved by the death of his wife, January 22, 1863, and his father Carlos
Seeley died during the same year. The little daughter was placed with her
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Wisner, and thus was brought up in the home which had
been her mother's in girlhood. Ansel Seeley left Mt. Morris after his
bereavement and only returned occasionally to visit his daughter. His death took
place in Austin, Tex., January 1, 1883. Mrs. Seeley's mother was an earnest and
devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mt. Morris.

  The grandparents, to whom our subject owes the training and education of her
early years were Walter and Candace (Hewitt) Wisner. The former was a native of
Cayuga County, N. Y., and came to Michigan May 8, 1854. The following year he
bought the farm which is now in his grand-daughter's hands and spent the rest of
his life upon it. He was a prominent»man, well known throughout this section of
the State and besides carrying on farming was a large dealer in real estate and
livestock. He lived to be seventy-eight years old, passing from earth October 1,
1887. His good wife survived him for more than a decade, and died February 20,
1890.

  The four children of Walter and Candace Wisner were Martha, now the wife of
James Milliard of Saginaw; Sarah married Theodore Fellon, of Mt. Morris: Cardon
lives in Genesee Township, and Frances, the mother of the subject of our sketch.
Miss Seely was educated in the village schools of Mt. Morris and after closing
her school days she assisted her grandfather in the management of his business,
and thus developed her business capacities which have proved of great use to her
since she undertook the superintendence of the farm which came into her hands,
February 24, 1890, after the death of her grandmother.

  The reader will find elsewhere in this volume a view of the homestead
belonging to Miss Seeley.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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