George E. Seavey of Windham, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1095 contained a portrait of George E. Seavey.

Page 1097

   GEORGE E. SEAVEY, formerly a prominent lumber dealer and saw-
mill operator, and one of the leading citizens of the town of Windham, Rock-
ingham County, N. H., was born in Pelham, Hillsborough County, N. H.,
June 20, 1839.  His parents were Benjamin and Sarah (Coburn) Seavey.
He was a grandson of Joseph Seavey, who in his day was a prominent citizen
of Pelham.
   Benjamin Seavey, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Pel-
ham, and early in life learned the wheelwright's, trade, which he followed
for a number of years.  Later he engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and,
removing from Pelham to Windham, carried on that business here until his
death in 1886.
   George E. Seavey was twelve years of age when he accompanied his
parents to Windham.  After leaving school he became associated with his
father in the lumber business, and continued with him until attaining his
majority, at which time he engaged in the business for himself in the eastern
part of the county.  Later he established himself at Windham Depot, where
he carried on a flourishing lumber business until his death, which occurred
August 18, 1910.  For thirty years he was a prominent factor in the lum-
bering manufacturing industry of this section.  An active and public spirited
citizen, he took a prominent part in local politics, serving four years as select-
man, for a number of years as supervisor, and representing the town in the
legislature in 1883-84 and again in 1893.  He was a member of St. Marks
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Derry, and was prominent socially, having a large
acquaintance throughout the county, to whom his death was a source of great
sorrow.
   Mr. Seavey was married, November 10, 1868, to Miss Mary Ballou, a
daughter of Edward and Isabella (McGregor) Ballou, of Derry, N. H.  Mrs.
Seavey's ancestry can be traced back through successive generations of the

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McGregors to the first settlers in Rockingham County.  Mrs. Seavey sur-
vives her husband and resides in Windham, where she is widely known and
highly esteemed.