Clark Chester Seely

SEELY, Clark Chester, lawyer, was born in Detroit, Mich., Sept. 16. 1886, son of John August and Carrie (Fassnacht) Seely. He was graduated L.L.B. at the Detroit College of Law in 1909 and began the practice of his profession in Detroit, soon afterward becoming associated with the firm of Washington I. Robinson. In 1913 he joined the firm of Millis, Griffin, and Lacy which then became Millis, Griffin, Seely and Streeter, his partners being Wade Millis, William Griffin and Howard Streeter. He was attorney for the Detroit United Railroads and for ten years instructor in law at the Detroit Y.M.C.A. He was a member of the national state and city bar associations, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically he was a Republican and he was a communicant of the German evangelical church. Personally he was one of the most popular of the younger members of the Detroit bar. He possessed a keen sense of duty and in studying the details of a case never lost his ability to see the case as a whole, or to make a proper application of the legal principles which should govern it. He presented the facts of a case with such clearness and relevancy to the issue joined as to make the conclusions of a jury inevitable. He was married Dec. 31, 1910, to Jeannette H., daughter of August P. Hirsemann, of Detroit, and had two children: Clark Chester Seely, Jr.; and Iris Jeanette Seely. He died in Detroit, Mich., Feb 5, 1920.

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