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SEE. Entered into rest Wednesday morning, Jan. 20, 1886, at Tarrytown, Elizabeth See, daughter of the late Isaac See.
Funeral services at the South Reformed Dutch Church on Friday, 22d inst., at 1:30 P.M.
(Closest match is Elizabeth b.c. 1810, Isaac, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
SEE.-At the residence of Mr. Robert Jackman, at White Plains, NY
on Feb. 27, 1889, ISABELLA SEE, in her 33rd year.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her funeral on Friday,
Mar 1, 1889, at 3 o'clock P.M.
(b.c. 1856, daughter of William b.c. 1814. Robert Jackman was either uncle or uncle-in-law.)
Amos L. See, 69 years old, died on Tuesday of apoplexy at his home, 367 Bleecker Street, and will be buried to-morrow morning in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown. Funeral services will be held in the Jane Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was chorister for forty years. Two sons, Edgar G. and W.G. See, and one daughter, Mrs. Lillian L. Herbst, survive him.
Mr. See was born in Westchester County. His family moved into the old Greenwich Village fifty years ago, and Mr. See spent all the rest of his life there. He retired from the hardware manufacturing business three years ago. He was an enthusiastic fisherman, and he spent the last three years of his life fishing a little and talking and reading about it more.
Mr. See was the Captain of Company H., Seventy-first Regiment, through the civil war. His two sons were with the Seventy-first in Cuba in the Spanish war. Descended from a long line of Masons, Mr. See attained the thirty-second degree. Among the Mystic Shriners his number was 108.
(Amos Lewis, Abraham C. Peter, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
Andrew J. See died at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. F.H. Smith, No. 55 Van Dam street, this afternoon. He was aged 79 years, 8 months and 23 days.
Mr. See was born in Wilton and until he came to this village four years ago he had always lived there.
He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Ida B. Smith, of this village, and two cousins, Matthew Gilligan and Margaret Pike of Albany.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Mr. See died from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, sustained on Wednesday night. This was the third stroke Mr. See had suffered within the past three or four years.
(Andrew J., Martin, David, ?Abraham, Jacobus, Isaac)
SYDNEY, N.S.W., Jan. 31 -- Sir John See, ex-Premier and Colonial Secretary of New South Wales, is dead. He was a Director of many Australian companies and institutions.
Sir John See was born in Huntingdonshire on Nov. 21, 1845. When he was 7 years old his family removed to New South Wales. There he engaged in Farming for a time, and later became a merchant. In 1880 he was elected to Parliament, and after holding various offices became Premier of the colony.
J. Benedict See, a personal friend of John D. Rockefeller, and for forty-three years town clerk of Mount Pleasant, died yesterday at his home, which is near the entrance to Rockefeller's estate at Tarrytown. He was 75 years old. He was first elected town clerk in 1863, and was reelected every year after that until 1906. A few years ago when Mr. Rockefeller was contesting his assessment tax in Mount Pleasant Mr. See was in charge of the books. He was for half a century a member of the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow. He leaves a large estate.
(Joseph Benedict, William, Abraham P., Peter, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
Miss Grace See, for fifteen years in charge of Winnants Hall, Rutgers College, died suddenly on Sunday evening of heart disease.
(Grace Hudson, John Limberger, Isaac, John, Peter, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
Mrs. RACHEL VAN WART DUTCHER SEE, the last surviving grandchild of Isaac Van Wart, one of the captors of Major Andre, died on Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Anna M. Dutcher, in Arlington, N.J.
The New York Times
May 3, 1915 (Monday)
The New York Times
31 Oct 1916 (Tuesday)
Mrs. CHARLOTTE S. SEE, formerly for fifty years a resident of Tarrytown, N.Y., where she was active in church work, died on Sunday at her home, 343 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn. Mrs See was born in this city seventy-eight years ago and was the widow of J. Benedict See, a merchant of Tarrytown. She was the mother of the late Rev. Edwin F. See, General Secretary of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A.
The New York Times
December 9, 1916
James A. See, a produce merchant here for many years, died in the New York Hospital in his sixty-fifth year. He lived in Glen Ridge, N. J.
(lines are William, Stephen, John W., Isaac, Jacobus, Jacobus, Isaac and James A., William, Stephen, Suzanne, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
The New York Times
Sep. 1917
[George See. Retired masonry contractor d. yesterday Orange NJ. Wife & 3 chn.]
VAN WART SEE, son of Edward See, an actor, died suddenly on Sunday at Syracuse, N.Y., where he had been brought from Plattsburg military training camp that morning by special train for treatment.
The New York Times
July 25, 1918 (Thursday)
Mrs. Sarah Kane See, 85 years old, of Castleton-on-the-Hudson, died on Tuesday at the home of her grandniece, Mrs. George C. Kenner, in Verona, N. J.
The New York Times
Oct 14, 1919
Miss Cornelia A. See, for fifteen years Chief Librarian of the public library of New Brunswick, N.J., died there yesterday. Her father was the late Rev. John See.
Milton See, for many years a leading architect of this city, died Wednesday night at his home, 140 North Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon, at the age of 67. For many years he was a member of the firm of Cady, Bird & See, but recently he had occupied offices with his son Edmund T. See, of 15 East Fortieth Street.
Among the important buildings for which Mr. See's firm prepared plans were the original Metropolitan Opera House, the Museum of Natural History and the Presbyterian Hospital. He also helped in the designing of many churches, particularly of the Methodist denomination.
(Milton, Coles Carpenter, Peter, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
[Mrs. Herbert G. See (Rena Virginia), d. Oct. 10, Overlook Drive, Valhalla NY. Member of Patriotic Order of American of Mt. Vernon. Two sons.]
SUMMIT, N.J., Dec. 23 -- George Newton See, who retired in 1932 as Assistant Controller of Customs in New York, died here today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. George N. Lenci, at the age of 79.
Besides his daughter he leaves a son, Joseph Melville See of New York
Leader in Women's Groups of Rochester Dead at 65
Special to The New York Times
ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 24 -- Mrs. Francena Sutherland See, leader in women's activities here for a quarter of a century, died today in her home at the age of 65.
Mrs. See was reputed to have been associated with more groups than any other woman in Rochester. She was an officer in many organizations. She arranged programs for clubs, talked over the radio, gave public addresses and organized drives.
She had been president of the Rochester Federation of Women's Clubs, and of the womens auxiliary of the Young Mens Christian Association.
Samuel D. See, for many years a professional starter of athletic games and at one time a noted ice skater and track athlete, died on Tuesday in his home, 719 President Street, Brooklyn, at the age of 85. Mr. See had presided at National Intercollegiate games for many years and had also served as starter for the Princeton Alumni games for more than thirty-five years. In recent years he had been a ticket taker at Ebbets Field and Madison Square Garden, and he worked at Ebbets Field during this season's World Series.
A son, Harold S. See, survives.
Alonzo B. See, elevator manufacturer and outspoken foe of higher education for women, who retired in 1930 as president of the A. B. See Elevator Company, which he founded in 1883, died last night at his home, 373 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, at the age of 94.
Unknown to the general public, except that his name had been read by many elevator passengers, Mr. See became "suddenly famous" to use the phrase of a New York Times editorial, when in 1922, in reply to a request from Adelphi College for funds, he replied that "all women's colleges should be burned."
Having found that his ruggedly individual pronouncements on education aroused nation-wide interest, Mr. See decided to put his views into a book, and, after six years of preparation, published the volume "Schools." The foreword read as follows:
"We have a nation to save. To save the nation the children must be rescued from their mothers and from pedagogues, the women must be rescued from themselves, and men must rule their homes again."
Other, and bitterer, controversies have arisen in the last nineteen years to cause the public largely to forget Mr. See's first expression of his views on women and education, but on the morning of Nov. 23, 1922, many newspaper readers said, The Times "hit the ceiling faster than they ever ascended in one of the See elevators."
Writers of Letters to the Editor, of all ages and both sexes, sprang to their pens and attacked his views from every angle. At least one woman challenged him to a debate, but he gave her what would nowadays be called "a quick brush-off," saying "I never discuss anything logical with women. They can talk straight for about five minutes and then they go off the handle. They haven't got the reasoning power a man has, and I wouldn't think of debating with any woman on any subject."
Agreeing in some respects with the famous Kipling quotation on "the female of the species," Mr. See wrote in "Schools": "There should be an end to all this talk about the goodness of women. It does no good, and it is not true. Men are better than women. Men are more truthful than women. Men are not deceitful like women. Men are more honest than women. Men are not quarrelsome like women."
The flapper breed would never have flourished in a See Utopia, for he advocated that "the fathers should watch over their girls, make them obey absolutely and make the girls wait on them in every particular -- that is, bring them their slippers, get their hats and coats and wait on them in every other way."
Occasionally, Mr. See himself wrote a Letter to the Editor, employing the same clearness and individuality of expression as in his books and interviews. In November, 1926, he attacked schools in general as follows in such a letter: "The schools injure the eyes, the nerves and the whole physical natures of the children, causing some to succumb to diseases they could have withstood if their health had not been undermined in the schools."
In his own ideal curriculum the children would merely be taught the alphabet, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic, history, geography and English. He said dead languages are dead; vocational subjects should be learned by doing them, foreign languages are superfluous, because English is becoming universal.
To the large number of newspaper readers who had come to enjoy, while they denounced, Mr. See's outbursts, it was with something of a sense of disappointment that they read in April, 1936, that he had "changed his mind about women." At a dinner in his home, at which he was the only man present, he entertained fifteen women who had achieved prominence in pursuits outside the home. To an intruding Times reporter who reminded him of the animosity he had aroused among women in other years, he answered:
"Well, that is all changed now. Up to tonight I still had that same opinion. But I changed it tonight." Compared to the publicity his earlier remarks received the attention given to this astonishing about-face was microscopic.
In the forty-seven years that Mr. See directed the affairs of his elevator company he expanded its business greatly, making it one of the county's leaders in its field. But he always kept the common stock in his own family. The preferred stock went to employes. In July, 1937 the family gathering of stockholders ratified the proposal to sell the property to the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, of which it is now a subsidiary.
Mr. See was a director of the Railroad-Machinery Club of New York, a member of the Clove Valley Rod and Gun Club of Poughkeepsie and a former member of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. He leaves a son, Alva B. See of Greenwich, Conn. and a sister, Mrs. Ella Van Keuren of Middletown, N.Y.
(Alonzo Bertram, prob. son of William S., Peter, Abraham, Isaac, Jacobus, Isaac)
The New York Times
Dec. 14, 1929
An estate of about $250,000 is disposed of in the will of Mrs. Eugenie See, wife of A. B. See, Brooklyn elevator manufacturer. Mrs. See, who died in Lake Placid; N. Y., on Oct. 6, left the bulk of her estate to her son and husband. Her will was filed in the Surrogate's court in Brooklyn yesterday.
The will bequeathed to Alva B. See, the son, of Greenwich, Conn., legacies and jewelry valued at about $105,000. The husband, who lives at 373 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, inherited the residuary estate, valued at about $125,000. Other bequests were $5,000 each to Mrs. Helene W. See, a daughter-in-law, and Alonzo B. See 2d and Henry W. See, grandchildren, all of Greenwich, Conn. Other relatives received smaller legacies.
YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 12 -- Thomas See of 129 Palisade Avenue, who formerly conducted a taxicab and transportation business, died in his home this morning of a heart attack. His age was 56. He leaves a widow.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6 -- Charles A. See, president of the See Candy Company, who built a three-man candy store into a chain of seventy-eight stores employing more than 2,000 people, died today at his home in Beverly Hills, after an illness of several months. His age was 67.
Born in Gananoque, Ont., Mr. See came here in 1919 from Toronto, where he was a pharmacist. He established his first candy store in Los Angeles in 1921 with the aid of his mother, the late Mary See.
His only employes in his first store were a candy maker and a salesman. The business grew repidly, however, until at the present time, in addition to a chain of stores, all in California, the company operates two factories, one here and the other in San Francisco.
He leaves his wife, Florence, two sons Lawrence and Richard R. See, and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Nunez, all of Los Angeles.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 15 -- Mrs. Mary E. See, past state president of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Royal Neighbors of America, died here today at her home. She leaves her husband, Herbert G. See, and a son, Russell H. See.
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