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Title: History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hartman, John C., 1861- ed
Subjects: Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- History Black Hawk County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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1821, was a representative of one of the families who colonized Marylandunder the direction of Lord Baltimore. The mother, who was born in Liberty,Indiana, in 1826, was a member of a family of Rockingham county, \irginia.Thomas Seerley went to Indiana by way of Pennsylvania when the city of Indian-apolis was a village and there he was united in marriage to Louisa Ann Smith, whoaccompanied her parents on their removal to Indianas capital. Thomas Seerleydevoted his life to the occupation of farming. In 1852 he removed with his familyto Stark county, Illinois, and m 1854 went to Keokuk county, Iowa. Homer H. Seerley was but six years of age when the family arrived in thisstate, his childhood days being spent upon a farm near South English. His father,a pioneer settler of the state, engaged in teaching school through the winter monthsand also aided in the erection of schoolhouses and churches and in making otherpublic improvements in the district in which he lived. The summer seasons were
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HOMER H. SEERLEY, LL. D. ^STO 1.6 jO% ..O*^* HISTORY OF BLACK HAWK COUNTY 33 devoted to farming to the time of his retirement from active life, when he removedto Iowa City, there passing away in 1904. He never held a public office, save localpositions such as a member of the school board and justice of the peace. Heserved, however, as an officer in the church and in the Masonic lodge acted asmaster of Naphthali Lodge, F. & A. M., at South English, Iowa, for twelve years.His widow survived him for a decade, passing away in Iowa City in 1914. Following the removal of the family to Iowa Dr. Seerley became a pupil inthe country schools, which he attended from 1854 until 1866. His secondary edu-cation was received in the preparatory department of the State LIniversity at IowaCity, which he entered as a freshman in 1869 and from which he was graduatedwith the Bachelor of Philosophy degree in the class of 1873. He received thedegree of Bachelor of Didactics from the university in 1875, t

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