Background
Seely, Walter Hoff was born on October 24, 1873 in Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Colonel Uriah and Nancy (Hopping) Seely.
Seely, Walter Hoff was born on October 24, 1873 in Middletown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Colonel Uriah and Nancy (Hopping) Seely.
Graduate Colgate Academy and Rutgers College.
With Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican, 1895-1896. Night editor Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Press, 1896-1900. Editor-in-chief Newark (New Jersey) Evening News, 1900-1902.
With New York World, 1902-1905.
Assistant to president and agency director Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company at San Francisco, 1905-1911. Writer and lecturer; public Success Magazine, 1922, succeeding Orison Sweet Marden as editor same, 1923, resigned 1926.
President Florida Service Corporation, since 1926.
Served in Intelligence Service, United States of America, in America and Europe, 1917-1918.
Married Blanche Stoddard, December 24, 1910. Children: Nancy Stoddard, Jane Stoddard.