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====== 149. (Hon.) Horatio Seymour ======

149. (Hon.) HORATIO<sup>6</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[075.moses|Moses]]//<sup>5</sup>,
//[[026.moses|Moses]]//<sup>4</sup>, //[[008.John|John]]//<sup>3</sup>,
//[[003.John|John]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
born at Litchfield, Conn., 31 May 1778, died at Middlebury,
Vt., 21 Nov. 1857; married May 1800, Lucy CASE, born at
Addison, Vt., in 1779, died at Middlebury, Vt., 19 Oct. 1833, daughter
of Jonah.

He prepared for college under the tuition of his brother-in-law,
Rev. Truman Marsh and was graduated from Yale College, 1797.
For a year he taught school at the Academy in Cheshire, Conn.;
then studied in the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the
bar in 1800. He commenced practice in Middlebury, Vt., where he
had settled in Oct. 1799. He was Postmaster of Middlebury, 1800-1809;
member of the State Council, 1809-1814; State's Attorney
for Addison County, 1810-1813, 1815-1819; elected as a Clay Democrat
to the U.S. Senate, 1820; reelected 1826; and served from
4 Mar. 1821 to 3 Mar. 1833; unsuccessful Whig candidate for governor
of Vermont, 1836; Judge of the Probate Court, 1847-1856.
Trustee of Middlebury College, 1810-1855; LL.D., Yale, 1847.
He had an extensive practice before he entered the Senate, and
acquired a large property, but subsequently lost it chiefly through
becoming surety for others. His portrait, and a picture of his mansion
in Middlebury, Vt., are included herein.

^ Children: ^^^^
| 242. | i. | [[242.ozias|OZIAS]]<sup>7</sup>, b. 12 Mar. 1801. ||
| 243. | ii. | [[243.moses|MOSES]], b. 6 Apr. 1803. ||
| | iii. | MARY, b. Dec. 1805; d. June 1821, unm. ||
| | iv. | HENRY, b. --; d. at Boston, Mass., Jan. 1847, unm. ||
| | v. | EMMA HART, b. 5 Jan. 1809; d. at Middlebury, 3 Nov. 1841; m. at Middlebury, 28 Nov. 1836, PHILIP BATTELL, b. at Norfolk, Conn., 28 Nov. 1807, s. of Joseph and Sarah (Robbins), a graduate of Middlebury College, 1826. Children: 1. //Emma Seymour,// b. 5 Sept. 1837; m. 25 Nov. 1870, Hon. John Wolcott Stewart, Governor of Vermont. 2. //Joseph.// b. 15 July 1839; living unm. (1908). ||
| | vi. | HORATIO, b. abt. 1814; d. Sept. 1872; m. ELIZABETH STAATS, b. 20 June 1816, d. 15 Mar. 1876.  ||
| | | Children: ||
| | |  I. | Horatio Schuyler<sup>8</sup>, b. 25 Mar. 1842; d. unm. 5 July 1870. |
| | |  II. | Barent Staats, b. 21 Nov. 1843; d. unm. 28 Dec. 1874. |

**HENRY<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR** ( 	-1847) was a merchant's clerk until he
was of age, but never engaged in regular business. He was with
the U.S. Army in Florida during most of the Seminole War. He
afterwards went to the coast of Africa with the U.S.S. Jamestown,
and died on his return.

**HORATIO<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR** (1814-1872) was educated at Middlebury
College and settled in Buffalo, N.Y., where he became a lawyer
of note. He served as Corporal in the Buffalo City Guards, Jan. to
Feb. 1838, in the Northern Frontier disturbances.

**JOSEPH<sup>8</sup> BATTELL** (1839- 	) was a nephew and namesake of
Joseph Battell of Norfolk, Conn., donor to Battell Chapel, Yale
College. He was a man of great energy, multiple interests, and
some eccentricity. He was editor and proprietor of the Middlebury
(Vt.) //Register//, owned 40,000 acres of timber-land and was engaged
in the lumber business as well as in other enterprises. He wrote
books and numerous newspaper articles, at times keeping from three
to five stenographers busy simultaneously with dictation. He was
also active in public life, serving six terms in the Vermont Legislature
as Representative, and in 1876 as Senator from Addison County.
He was deeply interested in scientific and philosophic subjects, about
which he wrote considerably. His most noted book was "Ellen, or
Whisperings of an Old Pine," in which he expressed his philosophic
views, particularly his antagonism to the doctrine of evolution. Man
does not, in order to create a piano, create a violin which evolves into
a piano; each is a distinct creation, was his method of reasoning,
which he pursued to the obvious analogy.

The title of his book referred to the high, beautiful, Ellen Mountain,
which he bought in 1904 (four thousand acres) to make into
a forest preserve and pleasure grounds for public use.

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