Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Seeley, Fayette 1823 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

FAYETTE SEELEY is a farmer residing on section 3, Genesee Township, Genesee
County. He was born in Carmillis Township, Onondaga County, N. Y., September 15,
1823, and is the youngest son of Lewis and Ann (Barsley) Seeley. When our
subject was fourteen years of age his parents removed to Michigan and he
remained with them until his father's death, when he started out in life to see
what there was in store for him. He left home on his twenty-first birthday with
nothing whatever as a resource against emergencies. He was strong and willing,
however, to do what offered and for six months was engaged as a farm laborer at
$12 per month. He purchased forty acres of land from his brother which was the
nucleus of the farm where our subject now resides.

  On first settling upon this tract the place was perfectly wild. He commenced
improvements by erecting a log house which was 20x24 feet in dimensions. His
mother was his housekeeper until his marriage and then he placed over the
domestic realm as mistress, Mary M., daughter of Chester and Elizabeth
(Hostlender) Ward. She was a native of Livingston County and was born in Mt.
Morris Township, N. Y., the 27th of November, 1827. That was her home until
about 1840 when she came to Michigan with her parents.

  The young couple at once located in their little log house on the same farm
where they now live. That continued to be their home until 1873, when he built
his present commodious and comfortable house. They are the parents of nine
children, all of whom are living and all of whom were born in the log house.
They are by name Hettie L., Elizabeth F., Helen L., George M., Charles D., Miner
L., Ella; Julia D., and Joanna E., twins, are at home. Hettie is the widow of M.
Malroy. She resides in Flint and is the mother of three children—John, Anna and
Edward; Elizabeth is the wife of Gilbert Townsend and resides in Genesee
Township, and is the mother of one child—Florence Cook; Helen is still with her
parents: George married Melinda Townsend and lives at Flint, and they have one
boy; Charles married Mary S. Clapp and resides on a farm of his own; they have
two children—Arthur and Ralph; Miner married Clara Warren and lives in
Marquette; they have one child, Fern; Julia is married to Frank Wisner and lives
in Mt. Morris; they have one child—Reperta A.; Fred E. married Dora A. Payne,
and resides with his parents.

  Mr. Seeley is the owner of one hundred acres of good land, which he chopped
and cleared himself. He is a Republican in politics and an ardent upholder of
his party. They have belonged to the Union Church of Genesee Township and have
been ardent workers in the same.


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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