Ionia-Kent County MI Archives Obituaries.....Selleck, Augustus February 6, 1912
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Grand Rapids Press Feb 7, 1912
CAME TO TERRITORY - Portland Pioneer Arrived Before Michigan Was a State.
(Special to Evening Press.)
Portland, Mich., Feb. 7. - Augustus Seleck, Portland's oldest citizen, is dead,
at the age of ninety-six years. He was born in Paris, Oneida county, New York,
Oct 23, 1816, and took up a quantity of land near Hastings in 1836, before
Michigan was admitted as a state.
He was a passenger on the first railroad train which run in New York in the year
1840 between the cities of Utica and Albany. He was a life long Democrat,
casting his first vote for Martin Van Buren in 1836.  He was a former supervisor
of Portland township. 
Mr. Seleck is survived by two children, William F. Seleck, a local justice of
the peace, and Mrs. A. Derby of this village. Eight grandchildren, the same
number of great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren also survives.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon. 

Additional Comments:
Transcriber's note; The spelling is Selleck, but I have copied the newspaper
article as it was written.
Mr. Selleck was proceeded in death by his wife, Sophronia Freeman Selleck in
1889. Mr. and Mrs. Selleck are buried in the Portland Cemetery, Portland,
Michigan.   

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