Roe, Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye), 1844-1917
Biographical Note
Alfred Seelye Roe was born to Rev. Austin Marinus Roe and Polly Catherine Seeyle on June 8, 1844, in Rose, Wayne County, New York. Roe was a school teacher when the American Civil War broke out. He enlisted on January 21, 1864, as a private in Company A, 9th New York Heavy Artillery, in the Union Army. On July 15, 1864, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war, primarily at Danville, Virginia, until February 1865. He transferred to Company L of the 2nd New York Heavy Artillery on June 27, 1865.
Following the war, Roe graduated from Wesleyan University in 1870 and returned to teaching, eventually becoming a high school principal in Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1892 to 1898. Roe also wrote and published on history topics.
Roe married Nora Ardelia Metcalf (1856-1910) on June 22, 1874, and they had four children. He passed away on January 6, 1917, in Worcester.
Source:
U. S. Federal Census, 1850-1910
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Alfred Seelye Roe, The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery, Worcester, Mass.: Published by the Author, 1899, pp. 432-434, available online from Google Books at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Ninth_New_York_Heavy_Artillery/waXJe-MEzXgC, accessed February 17, 2025.
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