George Escol Sellers was a son of engineer and inventor Coleman Sellers Sr. and his wife, Sophonisba, the daughter of famed Revolutionary War artist Charles Willson Peale.
His father owned a manufacturing facility at Philadelphia where he built fire engines, a pair of locomotives for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, and machinery for two U.S. Mint facilities. A recently published book about the family, Building Philadelphia, chronicles the their penchant for industrial progress and ingenuity.
After his father's death, Escol and his brother Charles headed for Cincinnati where they built a rolling mill and wire works. Escol appears there on the 1850 census with his wife, Rachel B. Parrish, and four of their five children.
Before 1860 developed business interests in the neighboring Southern Illinois counties of Hardin (where he platted out the settlement of Sellers Landing), and Gallatin, (where he became president of the Saline Coal and Manufacturing Company). He appears at the Saline Mines property on the 1880 census with his sister Anna, and the family of his married son Frederick.
In Gallatin County on the 1880 census, he was an immediate neighbor of John Grimmer and wife Louisa Peale, who was a cousin to Escol. Shortly after the census was taken, Louisa was left widowed with an infant son. G. Escol retired and brought Louisa, her child, and his maiden sister to Chattanooga.
There, he began writing a series of nearly fifty articles for American Machinist magazine. In 1965, the Smithsonian Institution published a number of them in a book, Early Engineering Reminiscences of George Escol Sellers.
The Peale-Sellers Family Collection is part of the holdings at the archives of the American Philosophical Society.
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DEATH OF AN OLD ENGINEER
George Sellers Dies at His Home on Mission Ridge.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 1. --(Special.)-- George Escol Sellers, one of the most noted engineers of his day, died at his residence on Mission Ridge this morning at 11 o'clock, in the ninety-first year of his age. The deceased was born in Philadelphia November 26, 1808. In 1844 he removed to Cincinnati, leaving that city shortly after for southern Illinois, where he became interested in coal lands and coal mining with the late Samuel J. Tilden. He is said to have made the first survey for a railroad through Georgia and Tennessee about the year 1849. He was one of the oldest locomotive builders in the United States, having built locomotives for the government years before the war. Mr. Sellers came to this city in 1888. He had the largest collection of Indian relics of any single individual collector in this section of the country.
He was a brother of Coleman Sellers [Jr], the distinguished engineer of Philadelphia, and is a grandson of the celebrated artist Charles Willson Peale. --The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia); 02 Jan 1899; pg. 3
His father owned a manufacturing facility at Philadelphia where he built fire engines, a pair of locomotives for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, and machinery for two U.S. Mint facilities. A recently published book about the family, Building Philadelphia, chronicles the their penchant for industrial progress and ingenuity.
After his father's death, Escol and his brother Charles headed for Cincinnati where they built a rolling mill and wire works. Escol appears there on the 1850 census with his wife, Rachel B. Parrish, and four of their five children.
Before 1860 developed business interests in the neighboring Southern Illinois counties of Hardin (where he platted out the settlement of Sellers Landing), and Gallatin, (where he became president of the Saline Coal and Manufacturing Company). He appears at the Saline Mines property on the 1880 census with his sister Anna, and the family of his married son Frederick.
In Gallatin County on the 1880 census, he was an immediate neighbor of John Grimmer and wife Louisa Peale, who was a cousin to Escol. Shortly after the census was taken, Louisa was left widowed with an infant son. G. Escol retired and brought Louisa, her child, and his maiden sister to Chattanooga.
There, he began writing a series of nearly fifty articles for American Machinist magazine. In 1965, the Smithsonian Institution published a number of them in a book, Early Engineering Reminiscences of George Escol Sellers.
The Peale-Sellers Family Collection is part of the holdings at the archives of the American Philosophical Society.
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DEATH OF AN OLD ENGINEER
George Sellers Dies at His Home on Mission Ridge.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 1. --(Special.)-- George Escol Sellers, one of the most noted engineers of his day, died at his residence on Mission Ridge this morning at 11 o'clock, in the ninety-first year of his age. The deceased was born in Philadelphia November 26, 1808. In 1844 he removed to Cincinnati, leaving that city shortly after for southern Illinois, where he became interested in coal lands and coal mining with the late Samuel J. Tilden. He is said to have made the first survey for a railroad through Georgia and Tennessee about the year 1849. He was one of the oldest locomotive builders in the United States, having built locomotives for the government years before the war. Mr. Sellers came to this city in 1888. He had the largest collection of Indian relics of any single individual collector in this section of the country.
He was a brother of Coleman Sellers [Jr], the distinguished engineer of Philadelphia, and is a grandson of the celebrated artist Charles Willson Peale. --The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia); 02 Jan 1899; pg. 3
George Escol Sellers was a son of engineer and inventor Coleman Sellers Sr. and his wife, Sophonisba, the daughter of famed Revolutionary War artist Charles Willson Peale.
His father owned a manufacturing facility at Philadelphia where he built fire engines, a pair of locomotives for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, and machinery for two U.S. Mint facilities. A recently published book about the family, Building Philadelphia, chronicles the their penchant for industrial progress and ingenuity.
After his father's death, Escol and his brother Charles headed for Cincinnati where they built a rolling mill and wire works. Escol appears there on the 1850 census with his wife, Rachel B. Parrish, and four of their five children.
Before 1860 developed business interests in the neighboring Southern Illinois counties of Hardin (where he platted out the settlement of Sellers Landing), and Gallatin, (where he became president of the Saline Coal and Manufacturing Company). He appears at the Saline Mines property on the 1880 census with his sister Anna, and the family of his married son Frederick.
In Gallatin County on the 1880 census, he was an immediate neighbor of John Grimmer and wife Louisa Peale, who was a cousin to Escol. Shortly after the census was taken, Louisa was left widowed with an infant son. G. Escol retired and brought Louisa, her child, and his maiden sister to Chattanooga.
There, he began writing a series of nearly fifty articles for American Machinist magazine. In 1965, the Smithsonian Institution published a number of them in a book, Early Engineering Reminiscences of George Escol Sellers.
The Peale-Sellers Family Collection is part of the holdings at the archives of the American Philosophical Society.
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DEATH OF AN OLD ENGINEER
George Sellers Dies at His Home on Mission Ridge.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 1. --(Special.)-- George Escol Sellers, one of the most noted engineers of his day, died at his residence on Mission Ridge this morning at 11 o'clock, in the ninety-first year of his age. The deceased was born in Philadelphia November 26, 1808. In 1844 he removed to Cincinnati, leaving that city shortly after for southern Illinois, where he became interested in coal lands and coal mining with the late Samuel J. Tilden. He is said to have made the first survey for a railroad through Georgia and Tennessee about the year 1849. He was one of the oldest locomotive builders in the United States, having built locomotives for the government years before the war. Mr. Sellers came to this city in 1888. He had the largest collection of Indian relics of any single individual collector in this section of the country.
He was a brother of Coleman Sellers [Jr], the distinguished engineer of Philadelphia, and is a grandson of the celebrated artist Charles Willson Peale. --The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia); 02 Jan 1899; pg. 3
His father owned a manufacturing facility at Philadelphia where he built fire engines, a pair of locomotives for the Philadelphia & Columbia Railroad, and machinery for two U.S. Mint facilities. A recently published book about the family, Building Philadelphia, chronicles the their penchant for industrial progress and ingenuity.
After his father's death, Escol and his brother Charles headed for Cincinnati where they built a rolling mill and wire works. Escol appears there on the 1850 census with his wife, Rachel B. Parrish, and four of their five children.
Before 1860 developed business interests in the neighboring Southern Illinois counties of Hardin (where he platted out the settlement of Sellers Landing), and Gallatin, (where he became president of the Saline Coal and Manufacturing Company). He appears at the Saline Mines property on the 1880 census with his sister Anna, and the family of his married son Frederick.
In Gallatin County on the 1880 census, he was an immediate neighbor of John Grimmer and wife Louisa Peale, who was a cousin to Escol. Shortly after the census was taken, Louisa was left widowed with an infant son. G. Escol retired and brought Louisa, her child, and his maiden sister to Chattanooga.
There, he began writing a series of nearly fifty articles for American Machinist magazine. In 1965, the Smithsonian Institution published a number of them in a book, Early Engineering Reminiscences of George Escol Sellers.
The Peale-Sellers Family Collection is part of the holdings at the archives of the American Philosophical Society.
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DEATH OF AN OLD ENGINEER
George Sellers Dies at His Home on Mission Ridge.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 1. --(Special.)-- George Escol Sellers, one of the most noted engineers of his day, died at his residence on Mission Ridge this morning at 11 o'clock, in the ninety-first year of his age. The deceased was born in Philadelphia November 26, 1808. In 1844 he removed to Cincinnati, leaving that city shortly after for southern Illinois, where he became interested in coal lands and coal mining with the late Samuel J. Tilden. He is said to have made the first survey for a railroad through Georgia and Tennessee about the year 1849. He was one of the oldest locomotive builders in the United States, having built locomotives for the government years before the war. Mr. Sellers came to this city in 1888. He had the largest collection of Indian relics of any single individual collector in this section of the country.
He was a brother of Coleman Sellers [Jr], the distinguished engineer of Philadelphia, and is a grandson of the celebrated artist Charles Willson Peale. --The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia); 02 Jan 1899; pg. 3
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