of Visitors there from 1874 to 1892. Seelye was on the Massachusetts Commission on Taxation from 1874 to 1875. Seelye incorporated the Clarke Institute for Deaf Mutes in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1867 to 1887. Seelye was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1876 to 1895. Seelye was president of the Congregational Home Missionary Society from 1885 to 1892. Seelye received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Union in 1862. Seelye received a Doctor of Laws degree from Columbia in 1876. Family On October 26, 1854, Seelye married Elizabeth Tillman James of Albany, New York, who was born in 1833 and died in 1881. They had four children: William James Seelye, born in 1857, graduated from Amherst College in 1879, married Mary A. Clarke of Iowa City in 1886, and died in 1931; Elizabeth James Seelye, who was born in 1862, married James Wilson Bixler, an Amherst graduate, in 1891, and who died in 1894; Anna Hawley Seelye, who was born in 1866, married Benjamin Kendall Emerson, an Amherst College professor, in 1901; and Mabel Seelye, who was born in 1870, married James Bixler in 1898; and died in 1919. Seelye is the brother of Laurenus Clark Seelye, first president of Smith College. He is the grandfather of J. Seelye Bixler, 16th president of Colby College, and of Elizabeth Seelye Bixler, third dean of the Yale School of Nursing. He is the great-grandfather of Former United States Ambassador Talcott Seelye and is the great-great-grandfather of National Public Radio reporter Kate Seelye Works Notes External links Julius Hawley Seelye (AC 1849) Papers from the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections 1824 births 1895 deaths Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts Union College (New York) alumni Amherst College alumni Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni Massachusetts Independents Independent members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century American politicians Presidents of Amherst College