Alexander McLaughlin Seely
Personal
Gender: Male
Date of Death: July 10, 1882
Death Place: Saint John, New Brunswick
Alexander McLaughlin Seely
Died
Monday 10th July, at residence of his brother, Wright St., Portland (St. John) Hon. Alexr. McLauchlin SEELY, President of Legislative Council of N.B., 71st year. Funeral Thursday 3 o’clock.
Published in The Daily Telegraph, July 12, 1882
Hon. A. McSEELY, President of the Legislative Council of N.B. died Monday at the residence of his brother, Wright St., Portland (St. John) in the 71st year of his age. He was the son of the late Seth SEELY of Saint John city and grandson of Seth Seely of Stramford, Connecticut, a United Empire Loyalist. He received his education in this city and at an early age engaged in the lumber business in Indiantown, first as a clerk in the office of the late Thomas McMAKIN, lumber merchant where he remained from about 1834 to 1837, and in 1838 he opened up a business in this line at Indiantown on his own behalf. He he continued until about 1851 or 1852 when he sold his residence there, which afterwards burned, to John F. GODARD, the present Town Clerk of Portland, and removed to this city, where he engaged in shipbuilding; to this time however he had built a couple of vessels across the river from Indiantown. He took a prominent part in banking affairs and was closely identified with the educational and missionary societies of the Baptist Church of which he was zealous member. He was a member of the Senate of U.N.B.; vice-president of N.B. Baptist Educational Society, of the N.B. Baptist Mome Missionary Board and of the Baptist Convention of N.B. and N.S. He was also President of the St. John Religious Tract Society and for several years President of the old Commercial Bank of this city. Mr. SEELY was called to the Legislative Council in 1854 and in 1875 was elected to the Presidency of the Council made vacant by the death of Hon. John Simcoe SAUNDERS. The Hon. Mr. Seely was twice married, his first wife being Miss MORRELL of this city, by whom he had three daughters and two sons. The eldest daughter married the late Rev. E.B. DEMILL; his second daughter, Capt. BERRYMAN of London; and the third, J.H. ROBINSON of this city. His eldest son is at present accountant in the offices of the New Brunswick Railway at Gibson (York Co.) and the sad death of his second son, Capt. SEELY was reported only a few days ago. His second wife, by whom he had three sons and one daughter, survives him. ‘St. John Sun’
Published in the Christian Visitor, July 12, 1882
The funeral of Hon. A. McL. SEELY took place yesterday afternoon from the residence of his brother, William SEELY, Esq., Wright St., Portland (St. John) The religious services at the house were conducted by Rev. Messrs Kelly and Cross of the Baptist Church who also conducted services at the grave at the Rural Cemetery (Fernhill Cemetery, Westmorland Road) The pall bearers were Hon. T.R. JONES, Henry VAUGHAN, James VERNON, Charles TURNBULL, George GEROW and George THOMAS. Flags were half mast on steamer “New York”, the deceased having been a director on the I.S.S. Co.
Published in The Daily Telegraph, July 14, 1882
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