Fred Loring Seely

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Fred Loring Seely (December 22, 1871 – March 14, 1942) was a newspaperman, chemist, inventor and philanthropist.

Born in New Jersey, in 1906 he founded the Atlanta Georgian daily newspaper which he sold to Randolph Hearst in 1912.^[1] Then he went to North Carolina where he built the Grove Park Inn with his father-in-law Edwin Wiley Grove and ran Biltmore Industries. He acted as the architect and builder of his home "Overlook" (sometimes called "Seely's Castle") on Sunset Mountain overlooking Asheville. The home later became the home of Biltmore College, the forerunner of what is now the University of North Carolina at Asheville. And in 1917 Seeely purchased Biltmore Estate Industries from Edith Vanderbilt and changed the name to Biltmore Industries. He died in Asheville, North Carolina.

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• Garrett, Franklin, Atlanta and Its Environs, 1954, University of Georgia Press.
• http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/biltmore_industries/history/historydefault.htm
• http://www.heritagewnc.org/historic_register_sites/biltmore_industries/biltmore_industries_shops.htm
• Overlook, home of Fred Loring Seely

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