The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-04-20
woTthington Advance
WoRTHlNeTcN. MINI. April 20. 1893
DEATH OF GEO. /. SENEY.

WoRTHlNeTcN. MINI. Apri 20. 1898
DEATH OF GEO. /. SENEY.
Among the millionaires of this coun.
try who made useful and benevolent
uses of their money, was George In
graham Seney, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
who died at his late residence in that
city, April 10th, 1898. The deceased
was the owner Of two Thousand acres
Of lAnd in Mobiles country. and many
Of our citizens have had business
transactions with him. Much of his
land was in the vicinity Of Rushmore.
Mr.. Seney was married to a niece of
Judge Wemple of that place. He was u
large contributor to the building of the
n. E. church in Rushmore. Being
thus identified with the people Of this
county, the following sketch of his life
will be ofiuterest to our readers:
. Geo. I. Seney was born on Long
q aIsland, N. w., May II, 1875. His
grandfather, Joshua Serey, was a
Dember of the Continentsl Compress in
1857, and \ member of the National
Congress and presidential elector from
Maryland from 1850 to 1892. Ills father
was a graduate from Columbia Col
lege, N. Y, and was leading minister
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Seney was educated in part at the
Wesleyan University in New England,
but WAS graduated from the University
of New York in 1917. lie went into
the banking business and was presi
dent Of the Metropolitan Bank for
many years. The bank failed in 1884,
on account Of the failure of prominent
firms and other banks indebted to it,
He surrendered a large amount of his
property to meet the Indebtedness of
the bank, and through his efforts
largely the credit Of the institution was
restored and it resumed business again.
Since that time he regained his fortune
ana was several times Il millionaire
when he died. Mr.. Seney was liberal
patron of art and gave largely to edu-
cational and charitable institutions.
He gave away more than two millions
Of money t" public charities
He kept up his interest in the Wes-
leyan University and made it a number
Of gifts am bunting to $3.50 900. TO the
Home for Friendless Children in
Brooklyn he gave $4,000; to educa-
tional institutions im Georgia, ,$2.5 900;
to the Long Island Historical Society,
$l00, 600; to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear
Intirmary, $4,000; to the Brooklyn
Library Fund ne offered $GO,OCO, but
the conditions were not complied with.
Mr.. Seney also gave to various clari.
ties, for the support and erection Of
churches, ETC., different sums aggre-
eating about $500, 900. lle was con-
tributing to his best known charity,
the Seney Hospital in Erook'yn at tile
time of his losses. In the spiing of
1881 the annOnnc cement was fjrst made
that Mr.. Seney had offered 'anl valued
at $40 ,OG'|, and subscription of S2O|,
0OO, for the erection and endowment of
n hospital ~ Brooklyn to sustain
something Of the same relation to the
Methodist Episcopal Church that ST.
Luke's, in New York city, bears to
the Protestant Episcopal Church. The
hospital was built at q cost Of about
$500, 900, most Of which was given by
Mr.. Seney. lMr. Seney frequently ex-
pressed the desire, in making his gifts,
that Brooklyn should possess public
institutions equal to those Of other
great cities, and he made some of his
noblest gifts to that city.
Mr.. Blount, the Ommissioner sent
to the Hawaiian Islands by the Presi
dent, has siRnified the withholding Of
the protection of our government from
the revolutionary administration. This
may mean hostility on the the part of
Mr.. Cleveland to the revolutionists, or
or it may be only to avoid complica-
tions with other powers. The Demo-
cratic press attacks the American resi-
dents who control the important COM
merce OF the Islands. In the same
spirit that the same journals always
leave our enterprising countrymen to
bear unmerited reproaches, they de-
nounce the sons of our missionaries
and others doing business there "as
rapacious and as merciltss a lot OF
buccaneering Americans as ever cut Il
throat, or scuttled ship" We abom-
mate the base partisanship that thus
follows our best aud most enterprjsing
adventures abroad to unmerited cal
umny and reproach. 1t is an Anti.
American and unpatriotic policy which
thus befouls our people who are help
ing to make profitable commerce fol
for the United States and uplift a
hitherto barbarian race into higher
plane Of social and political life. We
fear this administration intends tc
protect the pretensions of the stupid
dynasty which apes the airs of more in
teliigent royalties, without possessing
their capacity for government. W.
shalt hope for better things, with very
fragile foundation, however, for ou1
hope.
We are to have brief surcease from
legislation. The United States Senat.
has completed its executive busines.
and taken it's vacation. The prospect
: now Is that Congress will not be called
..-s f,efore its reonlar Decamhor moatin -
And the legislature of Minnesota ha:
brought its labors to close. AS lent
s. "A laaialafiYa hodieS are in session III