Bio of SELLERS, Dr. Harry H. (b.1876), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

Vol II, pg 778-781
HARRY H. SELLERS, M. D.
Dr. Harry H. Sellers, physician and surgeon, is now successfully practicing in
Minneapolis, where he took up his abode in 1911. Half the width of the continent
separates him from the place which witnessed his initial professional activity,
for he began practice in New England and is a native of that section of the
country, his birth having occurred in Bangor, Maine, April 11, 1876. He is a son
of Henry E. and Jane N. (Dean) Sellers, also natives of the Pine Tree state, the
father having been born in Castine and the mother in the city of Portland. Henry
E. Sellers was deputy collector of customs at Bangor, Maine, for a period of
thirty-six years. Both he and his wife were members of the Universalist church
and both have passed away.
Harry H. Sellers was educated in the public schools of Bangor and pursued an
academic course at Burlington, Vermont, where he was graduated in 1892. Having
determined upon. his future career he then entered the Johns Hopkins University
at Baltimore, Maryland, and was there graduated with the class of 1893. He then
located for the practice of his profession in his native city, where he remained
four years, after which he removed to Searsport, Maine, where he spent ten years
in active practice, serving for two years of that time as city physician and
also as secretary of the Eastern Maine Medical Society for a period of five
years. He also filled the position of secretary of the board of health for ten
years and did much valuable work in that connection. At length, however, he
determined to try his fortunes in the upper Mississippi valley and in 1911
crossed the country to Minneapolis, where he has remained, building up a large
and important practice during the eleven years of his residence here.
When the World war was in progress Dr. Sellers was in the service as a captain
of the Medical Corps and was made assistant surgeon at the port of embarkation
at Hoboken, New Jersey. Later he was ordered as assistant to the medical staff
at Fox Hiils Hospital at Staten Island, New York. He it was who discovered an
effective treatment for shell shock and for this he received letters of
commendation from the surgeon general U. S. A. and was promoted to the rank of
major in the Medical Corps. He was elected a member of the Board of Governors of
the Minneapolis Officers' Reserve Corps.
On the 26th of June, 1893, Dr. Sellers was married to Miss Bertha J. Mallalieu,
a daughter of the Rev. Richard R. Mallalieu, and they have two daughters and a
son: Jeannette M., Galen K. and Martha J. The son enlisted in the Field
Artillery, becoming a member of the Three Hundred and Thirty-first Field
Artillery, Battery B, which was assigned to the Eighty-sixth Division. He was
stationed at Camp Grant and at Camp Taylor, being mustered out at the latter
place after a year's service. He had had three years' training in the Shattuck
Military School at Faribault, Minnesota, before entering the service and he is
now studying medicine in the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Sellers is well known in Masonic circles, having taken the degrees of the
York and Scottish rites, while he is also a member of Alleppo Temple of the
Mystic Shrine at Boston, Massachusetts. He belongs to the Elks Club, to the
Automobile Club and to the Aero Club and he is flight surgeon of the
Eighty-eighth Division of the Aero Squadron. He is likewise a member of the
Alpha Delta Sigma, a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States and belongs to the Eastern Maine Medical Society, the Penobscot
County (Maine) Medical Society and the Maine Medical Society. In politics he has
always manifested a deep interest and was a delegate to the republican state
convention in 1922. He has ever been actuated by a most progressive spirit in
all that pertains to the general welfare, while in his professional career his
course has been marked by steady progress, which comes through wide study and
investigation, as well as broad experience.