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Seelye, Julius Hawtry

clergyman, college president, congressman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1824, in Bethel, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the Dutch reformed church in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1853, and remained there until appointed professor at Amherst college in 1858; and was its president during 1876- 90. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyfourth congress. He was the author of Natural Religion; The Way, the Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; and Duty. He died in 1895.