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The Awful Seeley Dinner

"To be sure the dinner party in question had only male guests--it would not be quite correct to call them gentlemen in the strict sense--but they move in the 'best circles' of the metropolis."(St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1-2-1897)

According to Herbert B. Seeley the following is the list of his guests:
  • Clair Hamilton, unmarried, South Orange, N.J.; no business.
  • Horatio R. Harper, of Harper Bros., married.
  • Dr. John A. Irwin, No. 14 West Twenty-ninth street, unmarried.
  • Theodore D. Rich, No. 108 Fulton street, publisher, married.
  • Nathan Seeley, No. 29 East Thirty-ninth street, married.
  • Marmaduke Tilden, Larchmont, N.Y., widower.
  • E. P. Delanoy, No. 431 Fifth avenue, in fire insurance business at No. 1 and 3 Wall street, unmarried, and has bachelor apartment at the Fifth avenue address.
  • Alfred Marshall, married, No. 55 Park avenue; no business.
  • A. Gould Hamilton, South Orange, N.J.; no business; married.
  • C. Barnum Seeley (my brother), No. 25 East Thirty-ninth street, unmarried; no business.
  • Wilson Marshall, No. 839 Madison avenue; married; no business.
  • H. H. Flagler, son and secretary of H. M. Flagler; married, No. 51 Park avenue.
  • Louie Ogden, lawyer, with E. E. Anderson; unmarried.
  • H. A. Bergmann; unmarried; No. 431 Fifth avenue; bachelor apartments there.
  • Marshall Bishop, in stock broker's office; unmarried.
  • Henry W. Harris, East Orange, N.J.; unmarried; owner of the schooner yacht Quisetta.
  • Charles Tobias, bond broker on Broad street; lives at Majestic Hotel; married.
  • Conrad L. Peters, above mentioned; unmarried; wine merchant in Beaver street.
  • H. E. Smith, manufacturer of pearl buttons, New Jersey; unmarried.
  • Edward Fish, New York Stock Exchange; unmarried.
  • C. A. Postley, No. 887 Fifth avenue; Commodore Larchmont Yacht Club, and owner of the yacht Colonial; married.
  • Herbert B. Seeley.
    • from the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch

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