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Farmer Seeks the High Life

  • Writer: Rochelle Gridley
    Rochelle Gridley
  • Jul 19, 2015
  • 1 min read

On July 19, 1915 Mrs. Sarah Mae Seelye was granted a divorce on the clearest grounds imaginable. Her farmer husband, after thirty years of marriage, squandered all his money and his farm land in the pursuit of a "gay time." Lyman Seelye spent $50,000 in about 6 months and lost 365 acres of Peoria farming land. The evidence was overwhelming that he was not a man to be trusted with Sarah Mae's future.

 
 
 

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