Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Spencer Co.

DR. W. D. SEELEY was born March 9, 1850, in Woodford County, Ky., a son of
Rev. Lyman W. Seeley, D.D., of Woodford, who was born in Lexington in 1814.
Rev. Dr. Seeley was educated at Transylvania University, and was at one
time professor of the academical department of that institution.  He was
also professor of theology at Georgetown College and Richmond (Va.) College
and later professor at Hollins' Female Institute, Roanoke County, Va.
During his ministry he was stationed at other places: Frankfort, Baltimore
and Richmond, Va., and while in Frankfort was private secretary to Gov.
Leslie.  He was at the head of private schools, and numbered among his
pupils Hons. Joe and James Blackburn, Hon. James W. Tate, Gens. John
Morgan, Basil Duke, Thomas Taylor, Bishop Gallaher, and a great many others
of the most prominent men in every profession.  He died in 1884.  He
married Sarah Shipp, of Woodford County, daughter of Richard Shipp, a
prominent farmer of that county, and of Virginian ancestry.  She died in
1879, a member of the Baptist Church, as was also her husband.  Dr. W. D.
Seeley is the youngest of four children, and was educated in the schools of
Richmond Va., and under the private instruction of his father.  In 1872 he
entered the Louisville Medical College, graduated in 1874, and soon after
accepted a position on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad as physician to
several miles of its construction.  In 1877 he attended the Bellevue
Hospital College, and afterward practiced a year or two in Shelby County.
In March, 1883, he located in Taylorsville, where he still resides and has
a good practice.  In October, 1885, he married Miss Ella Newland, a
daughter of J. C. Newland, of Taylorsville.  Mrs. Seeley is a member of
the Baptist Church.  They have one child, Hinman.  Dr. L. W. Seeley
possessed a library of three or four thousand volumes, containing some of
the rarest literature in this country, a number being the original print
and binding of the middle of the sixteenth century.  Dr. Seeley, by those
scholars who knew him best, was regarded as almost without a peer as a
scholar.  He read forty languages, but was no more remarkable as a linguist
than he was in every other branch of learning.

Seeley Blackburn Tate Morgan Duke Taylor Gallaher Shipp Newland
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Woodford-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY Louisville-Jefferson-KY Shelby-KY
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