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Edward Anson Seeley, of the class of 1890, was accidentally shot last week while out hunting and died, within a few hours...
...college Seeley was known as a painstaking and industrious student. He took an unusually large number of courses, and distinguished himself by getting honorable mention in Mathematics. But few people realized how hard he struggled to support himself. By great exertions he managed to lay by enough to enable him to graduate. He never, however, received his diploma. The little sum so dearly earned was lost, but through no fault of his. Too pround to accept a loan offered by a classmate, he left college and took a position as assistant engineer...
...Seeley was given excellent letters by his superiors and went to St. Paul. Then occurred the fatal accident. As he was returning from a hunting trip one of his companions, while shifting a shot gun from one shoulder to the other, accidentally fired it. The charge severed the main artery of the leg and Seeley died from loss of blood. He lived long enough to give the address of his parents and of the college professors...
Edward Anson Seeley '90 was accidentally shot in the leg, while hunting in the West, and before help could reach him bled to death. He was one of the brightest men in his class, and took honorable mention in Mathematics...
President Seeley, of Smith College, will speak at Springfield tomorrow...