NEW YORK, July 26. – Miss Seelye, M.D., died June 9 at Masooric, Northern India. She was connected with the Woman’s Union African Mission, in Calcutta. Miss Seeleye was on her vacation trip, and died of typhoid fever. She was a daughter of Dr. Seeyle of Cleveland.
Special Telegram to the Inter-Ocean
Published in the Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, IL) Tuesday July 27, 1875 page 1
(Seelye/Seeleye/Seeyle as printed in the newspaper)
Death of Mary F. Seelye
Mary F. Seelye, formerly of this city, died at Calcutta, India, on the 9th of last month. The deceased was a niece of Dr. S.T. Seelye, for many years pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, and of Hon. Julius Seelye and Prof. Clark Seelye, of Massachusetts.
After finishing her studies at the Albany Academy and graduating from that institution, she freely offered herself to the American Board as a missionary. Her services were accepted, whereupon, in order to further equip herself for the delicate and arduous duties that lay before her, she pursued a course of study at the best medical colleges of Boston and Philadelphia.
She graduated in due time with the highest honors as a physician, and her degree of M.D., well won, was to her the source of much laudable satisfaction.
Three years ago last September, she sailed for India for her life work, in company with a niece of the late Secretary Seward. Her time since reaching Calcutta, until her death, was entirely devoted to the souls and bodies of the benighted inhabitants of that far-off land.
Soon after beginning her missionary work she was placed at the head of a hospital for children – a position which she was peculiarly fitted to occupy – and when called away from her post by death she had fairly entered upon a career inspired only from above, and having for its sole object the welfare of the heathen by whom she was surrounded.
Miss Seelye died at the early age of twenty-eight, and those who knew her best, who remember how earnest and untiring she was always, and that every energy of her being was devoted to the task of helping to make the world better, find it impossible to understand why it was that her days were not long in the land for which she sacrifices so much.
But the Wisest has seen fit to call her to Himself – “she rests from her labors and her works do follow her.” Hers was a singularly strong and sweet character, and her memory is proportionately precious and fragrant in the hearts of sorrowing friends.
Published in the Albany Evening Journal (Albany, NY) Wednesday, July 21, 1875 page 3
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