Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-10-12
DEATH Of rRor. 3, ,. sEIrz.
On Monday Merning-The Funeral
Exercises -BieErahlcal
Sketch.

mathematics in the State Norma
School of this city, has cast gloon
over the whole community. It occurred
on Monday, Oct. 9Th. at few minute.
past ten o'clock, at his residence OF
Normal Street. Prof. Seitz was taker
i'll on the 18th ult.. with malignant
continued fever with typhoid compli
cations. and despite every effort thai
professional skill could make, or loving
hands compass, gradually yielded t,
the inroads of the disease.
A: the Normal on Monday morning
last, while the school was assembled fol
rest and calisthenics the sad announce
ment was made that this well loved
teacher was no more. Profound silence
followed the announcement and every
heart seemed bowed with grief
After a few remarks by the president
Prot. Blanton the school was dismiss.
ed until Tuesday morning. at which
time the funeral services were to take
place at the family residence.
The three and four years class met at
one o'clock Monday afternoon and
draped the chapel and room No. o.
which was Prof. Seitz, class room--in
mourning
Tuesday morning the entire school
assembled at the Normal Chapel and
assumed badges of morning. after
which they marched in the following
order to the home of the bereaved
family: 1st, The Three and Four years
classes; End, the First and Second year
students; 3rd, the Model school. The
procession consisted of upwards of tour
hundred persons. At the residence
after bret funeral services conducted
by Rev'ds. Wheat. Mitchell and Boyd
the remains were viewed for the last
time by the entire school, after which
the funeral cortege proceeded to the
depot, to await the morning train
which was to bear him away, to his
former home at Greenfield, Ohio, for
burial. The stricken family accompa-
MED the remains, as also did President
Blanton, on this last sad journey.
procpspurr cVrTCu
We copy the following Biographical
sketch of Prof. Seitz as published in the
March number of the 'School Visitor"
printed at Ansonia. Ohio:
EAoch Beery Seitz, professor cf math-
ematics, was born In Fairfield county,
O., Aug "a, 1916. His father, Daniel
Seitz was born in Rockingham county
Va, December IL, 1871, and was twice
married; his first wife was Elizabeth
Hlte,of Fairfield county, Ohio, by whom
he had eleven children. His second
wife was Catharins Beery, born in the
same county, April II, 1903, whom he
married April Is, 1882, and from which
marriage four sons and as many
daughters were the issue. Mr.. Seitz
followed the occupation of a farmer,
and was an industrious and substantial
citizen. He died near Lancaster, Ohio,
October IA, 1864, in his seventy-third
year, being a resident of Fairfield, Co,
for sixty-three years. In the fall of
1866, Mrs. Seltz, with her family moved
to Greenville, Ohio, where she resided |
until 1880.
Prof. Seitz, the third son of his faith
er's second marriage, passed his boy
hood on farm, and had the advantage
of only the common school course.
Possessing, however, great thirst for
learning he applied himself very dill
gently to his books in private, and be-
came very fine scholar IN the English
branches, especially excellinR in arith-
netlc. For number Of years he en-
ployed himself in teaching, and with
gratifying success. He took a mathe-
natical course in the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, from which
Institution he graduated in 1870. In
872 he was elected one of the teachers
f the Greenvllle High School, which
position he held till 1879. On the 24th {
+ June, 1875, he married Miss Anna E.
lerlin, daughter of W. X. Kerlin, {
of Darke county. Ohio, from
S75 to 1879. In 1879 he was elected to a
D the chair of mathematics in the North e
lissouri State Normal school, which t
osition he now holds. S
Professor Seltz possesses very Supe- G
or mathematical talent, has special b
'ndness for this branch of study, and n
rs already taken rank as one OF the n
nest mathemat,cians. He Is a regu- n
r contributor to the following jour d
a!s: The analyst, the Mathematical n
isitor, the Mathematical Magazine. t
e School Visitor, and the Educational u
ines, of London, England. He was e,
acted a member Of the London Math- Sc
natical Society, March II, 1880, being h
9 fifth American honored by such al
sction. et
Prof. Se,tz solutions are written in Ii
at, attractive style, and the hundred W
agrams published in the School Visi- 81
; with his solutions, were drawn on
lie slips ready for the engraver s.
ieinality, accuracy, and beauty are b,
liking characteristics of his work. NJ
e principal part of this sketch is tax SO
from the Biographical Cyclopedia. co
II portrait of him was taken from a su
oto. but the woodcut is not a faith fe
transcript of the original. m
Prof. Seitz has been a resident of
rksville since 1879, at which time be W
S chosen to fill the chair of mathe- IN
tics in the State Normal School. W W
, career as teacher at this place has ds
n eminently successful, and his ou