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SELLERS, Coleman, consulting engineer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 28, 1827; son of Coleman and Sophonisba (Peale) Sellers; grandson of Nathan and Elizabeth (Coleman) Sellers, and of Charles Willson and Rachel (Brewer) Peals, and a descendant of Samuel Sellers, who settled in Upper Derby township, in 1682. He attended the academy of Anthony Bolmar, at Westchester, Pa., 1841-46; be filled the positions of draughtsman and superintendent with the Globe Rollingmill company, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1846-49; was engaged with his brother in locomotive building, 1849-51, and employed as foreman for Niles and Co., Cincinnati, 1851-56. He was married, Oct. 8, 1851, to Cornelia, daughter of Horace {57370} and Sarah Hewes (Whipple) {57362} Wells of Cincinnati, and was chief engineer and subsequently a member of the firm of William Sellers and Co., Philadelphia, 1856-87. He was president of Franklin Institute, 1870-75, and subsequently professor of mechanics and member of the board of managers; professor of engineering practice in the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N.J., from 1886; served as a member of the Niagara international commission, 1890-91, and consulting engineer from 1890 of the Cataract Construction Co. In 1903 he was chief engineer of the Niagara Falls Power company. His inventions include many important improvements in machine tools, hydraulic machinery, shafting for transmitting power, mechanical construction of large dynamos for Niagara Falls, etc., etc. He was president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1884; of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art; of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; of the Photographic society of Philadelphia; vice-president of the American Philosophical society, and a member of other learned societies in America and Europe. He was American correspondent of the British Journal of Photography, 1861-63; and one of the Seybert committee appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to examine the claims of spiritualism in 1884. He received the order of St. Olaf from the King of Sweden in 1877, the degree of D.E. from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1888, and the degree of D.Sc. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1899.
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