Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- book:134.charles [2014/09/28 13:33] – created jims
+++ book:134.charles [2014/09/29 12:54] – jims
@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ====== 134. Charles Seymour ======
-//This page is a placeholder added on 28 Sep 2014.  It will be filled in later when the relevant page(s) are scanned.  --jds//
+. CHARLES<sup>6</sup> SEYMOUR (//[[068.charles|Charles]]//<sup>5</sup>,
+//[[021.timothy|Timothy]]//<sup>4</sup>, //[[008.John|John]]//<sup>3</sup>,
+//[[003.John|John]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
+born at West Hartford, Conn., 17 Jan. 1777, died at Hartford, Conn., 21 Jan.
+; married at West Hartford, 20 Dec. 1803, CATHARINE<sup>6</sup> PERKINS,
+born at West Hartford, 20 Jan. 1782, died 19 Feb. 1848, daughter of Rev. Nathan<sup>5</sup>
+//(Matthew<sup>4</sup>, Joseph<sup>3</sup>, Jacob<sup>2</sup>, John<sup>1</sup>)// and Catharine. (Pitkin).
-\\ [[133.allyn|(<-- 133. Allyn(6) Seymour)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[135.ashbel|(135. Ashbel(6) Seymour -->)]]
+He studied with Rev. Nathan Perkins until he was sixteen, when he became a clerk
+in Hartford. He commenced business for himself when he came of age, and
+continued a merchant in Hartford for more than fifty years. He held many
+positions of trust and responsibility. He was treasurer of the First
+Ecclesiastical Society from 1824 to 1843; one of the vice-presidents of the
+oldest Savings Bank in Hartford, and chairman of the loaning committee for
+thirty years; and Director of the American Asylum for Deaf Mutes for the same
+term of years.
+A fine miniature of him, artist unknown, in possession of the family, painted
+shortly before his marriage, shows a man of fine features, dark hair, and a long
+oval face, somewhat suggestive of his great-grandson and namesake, Charles
+Seymour, President of Yale University.
+Mrs. Seymour's father, Rev. NathanPerlcins; D.O., was for sixtysix years pastor
+of the Church of Christjn West Hartford. Her mother was daughter of Rev. Timothy
+Pitkin of Farmington, Conn., (a son of Gov. William Pitkin), whose wife was
+Temperance Clap, daughter of Thomas Clap, President of Yale College.
+The Seymour home was first on Dorr Street, and later the large brick house on
+Pratt Street.
+Children, born at Hartford:
+  * i. JULIA<sup>7</sup>, b. 19 Dec. 1804; d. 17 Aug. 1886.
+  * ii. CATHARINE, b. 25 May 1806; d. at Charleston, S. C., 3 Mar. 1884; , m. at Hartford, 5 Dec. 1827, (MAJOR) CALVIN DAY, b. at Westfield, Mass., 26 Feb. 1803, d. 10 June 1884, s. of Ambrose and Polly (Ely). Children:
+    * I. Julia Seymour<sup>8</sup>, b. 7 July 1829; .m, 14 June 1854, (Col.) George Perkins Bissell.
+    * II. Caroline Elizabeth, b. 19 Oct. 1833; unm., of Hartford.
+    * III. John Calvin, b. 3 Nov. 1835; m. 17 June 1869, Alice Beecher Hooker. Children:
+      * (1) Katharine Seymour<sup>9</sup>, b. 8 May 1870; See below.
+      * (2) Alice Hooker, b. 3 Jan. 1872, d. in 1926; m. in 1910. Percy Jackson; see below.
+    * IV. Katharine Perkins, b. 24 Feb. 1837, d. at Hartford, 25 Nov. 1914; m. at Hartford, 12 Oct. 1864, (Brig.-Gen.) Joseph Cooke Jackson, b. at Newark, N.J., 5 Aug. 1835. d. at New York City, 22 May 1913. Their two daughters were presented at the Court of St. James. Children:
+      * (1) Joseph Cooke<sup>9</sup>, b. 20 Aug. 1865, m. 14 June 1900, Mabel Goodsell, dau. of James Henry and Leila Angouleme (Peck). Child:
+        * A. Joseph Hamilton<sup>10</sup>, b. 15 June 1901.
+      * (2) John Day, b. 23 Sept. 1868; See below; m. at Elgin, Ill., 28 July 1909. Rose Marie Herrick. b. at Dundee, Ill., 25 Mar. 1888, dau. of John Wheeler and Annie Isabelle Elizabeth (Taylor) MacMillan. Children. b. at New Haven, Conn.:
+        * A. Richard Seymour<sup>10</sup>, b. 30 Aug. 1910.
+        * B. John Herrick, b. 10 Jan. 1912, m. 20 June 1936. Mary R. Richardson.
+        * C. Henry Wolcott, b. 10 Oct. 1913; m. 6 Feb. 1936, Eleanor Wardlaw.
+        * D. Lionel Stewart, b. 25 June 1915; m. 16 June 1938 Patricia Woolley.
+        * E. Rose Day, b. 23 Aug. 1916; m. 16 May 1936, John W. Sheppard.
+        * F. Harriet (twin), b. 30 Setlt. 1917.
+        * G. Katharine (twin) b. 30 Sept. 1917.
+        * H. William Brinckerhhoff, b. 21 Mar. 1920.
+      * (3) Katharine Seymour, m. 4 Dec. 1909, Percy Hamilton Goodsell, s. of James Henry and Leila Angouleme (Peck). Child:
+        * A. Percy Hamilton<sup>10</sup>, b. 24 Sept. 1910.
+      * (4) Elizabeth Huntington, m. 20 Oct. 1909, Martin Sheeler Watts, s. of James and Mary (Sheeler). Children:
+        * A. Martin Seymour Huntington<sup>10</sup>, b. 26 Dec. 1910.
+        * B. Schuyler Wolcott Jacklon, b. 25 Jan. 1912.
+  * iii. CHARLES, b. 2 Nov. 1807; d. at Hartford, 23 June 1886.
+  * iv. EDWARD, b. 28 Sept. 1809; d. 12 Oct. 1810.,
+  * v. HARRIET, b. 27 Sept. 1811; d. at Brooklyn, Conn., 8 May 1846; m. at Hartford, Conn., 8 May 1844, REV. GEORGE JEFFREY TILLOTSON, b. at Farmington, Conn., 5 Feb. 1805, d; Apr. 1888, s. of Col. Daniel and Huldah (Gridley). He was graduated at Yale College, 1825, and at Yale Theological Seminary, 1830, and received the degree of M.A. in 1830. He had a charge at Brooklyn, Conn.; in 1849 was a member of the Yale Corporation, Only child d. in infancy. He m. (2) IS Nov. 1848, Elizabeth Kinsey Lester.
+  * 237. vi. [[237.nathan_perkins|NATHAN PERKINS]], b. 24 Dec. 1813.
+  * vii. JOHN WHITMAN, b. 24 Mar. 1816;d. at Villa de Santiago. Mexico, after 1857, unm.; was graduated from Yale College, 1837; a bank president.
+  * viii. ALFRED (twin), b. 6 Nov. 1817; d.ll Oct. 1818. ix. ALBERT (twin), b. 6 Nov. 1817; d. 16 Sept. 1818.
+  * x. MARY, b. 1 Nov. 1820; d. at Hartford, Conn., 18 Apr. 1883; m. at Hartford, 28 Oct. 1846, RUSSELL GOODRICH<sup>7</sup> TALCOTT, b. at Hartford, 15 Aug. 1818, d. there 3 Mar. 1863, s. of Russell<sup>6</sup> //(George<sup>5</sup>, Elizur<sup>4</sup>, Benjamin<sup>3</sup>, Samuel<sup>2</sup>, John<sup>1</sup>)// and Harriet (Kingsbury). Child:
+    * I. Mary KingsburyS, b. 3 Nov. 1847, d. 17 Nov. 1917.
+  * xi. EMILY, b. 28 July 1825; d. at Hartford, 16 Aug. 1904.
+Of the above children, Charles, Julia and Emily never married, and lived
+together, at first on Pratt Street, and later in a large brick house on Collins
+Street, Hartford. **JULIA<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR** (1804-1886) is recalled as a
+woman of strong will and determination; she had a good mind, but became a
+chronic invalid from arthritis, and at the last was blind.
+**CHARLES<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR** (1807-1886) was a director in many banks and
+corporations, and in 1843 was elected treasurer of the First Ecclesiastical
+Society. A relative recalls his love of fast horses, and his long white hair
+flying in the wind as he drove down Farmington Avenue. Sometimes he would slouch
+along until some young blood with high-steppers would //try// to pass him.
+**EMILY<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR** (1825-1904) is described as the gentler of the two
+sisters, who led the typical, narrow life of "old maids" in those days. "Aunt
+Emily" was a member of Center Church, Hartford, and interested in Bible study.
+She learned Greek after she was sixty, in order to read the New Testament in the
+original. She felt this to be an "unladylike" accomplishment, and made her
+nephew, the Greek scholar, Thomas DayS Seymour, whose advice she sought, promise
+that he would not reveal it until after her death. When a niece in childhood
+visited the sisters, her doll was taken from her on Saturday night, and on
+Sunday the little girl would walk back and forth in front of the sideboard on
+which the doll lay, without daring to ask for it. "Aunt Emily" clung to strict
+Sabbath observance, and when visited in old age by a grandniece, on Sunday would
+hand her a religious book in place of the secular magazine she was reading.
+The large brick house on Collins Street in which they lived was spacious and
+dignified and eminently Victorian in its furnishings. The author remembers in
+particular in the drawing room the large landscapes in leaf gold frames in the
+taste of that day. Mr. John Day Jackson, a grand-nephew, recalls a statuette of
+the three Graces, doubtless in Parian marble, judiciously veiled under a canopy
+of lace simulating a tea-cozy. Mr. Jackson also recalls Thanksgiving dinners
+which, following a traditional pattern, began with oyster soup in a huge tureen,
+succeeded by roast turkey and cranberry sauce, an ample chicken pie and
+attendant dishes which led up to a trinity of pies, the climax of the feast
+being a service of green and China tea. The trinity of pies must have been
+accompanied by the traditional Indian pudding, without which no old-fashioned
+Thanksgiving dinner was complete.
+**MARY KINGSBURY**<sup>8</sup> TALCOTT (1847-1917) was widely known for her
+genealogical knowledge of Connecticut families, particularly those of Hartford.
+She was a founder, and for many years the Registrar, of the Ruth Wyllys Chapter,
+D. A. R. For almost as long a period, she was Genealogist of the Connecticut
+Society of Colonial Dames of America. She gave valuable aid in the work of
+preserving the old stones in the ancient burial ground at Hartford, a work which
+was vigorously prosecuted by her intimate friend, Mrs. Emily Seymour (Goodwin)
+Holcombe.
+From youth, she was keenly interested in her own ancestry; she joined the
+Colonial Dames in right of John Talcott, Assistant and Treasurer of the Colony
+of Connecticut, but filed supplemental claims in right of her "six Governors" --
+William Bradford, Thomas Dudley, John Haynes, William Pitkin, John Webster, and
+George Wyllys,six ministers,-Rev. Thomas Clap, D.D., Rev. Noadiah Russell, Rev.
+Solomon Stoddard, Rev. John Warham, Rev. John Whiting, and Rev. Timothy
+Woodbridge,-and also John Deming, Col. John Gorham, John Howland of the
+//Mayflower,// Capt. Elizur Holyoke, Capt. Joseph Kingsbury, Capt. Richard
+Osborne, Hon. William Pynchon, Lieut. Robert Seeley, Col. Elizur Talcott, Capt.
+Samuel Talcott, Richard Treat the Patentee, and Hon. Samuel Wyllys,-a truly
+amazing galaxy of early New England worthies.
+One of Miss Talcott's most important pieces of work was her chapter on the
+founders of Hartford in the Memorial History of Hartford Couflty (1886). She
+edited the Kingsbury Genealogy (1905). She was frequently consulted by fellow
+genealogists and historians. Her interest in the Seymour family, her mother's,
+was so great that before 1880 she began the collection of data with the
+intention of publishing a genealogy, an ambition which was never realized. Her
+collections have, however, been utilized extensively in the present volume. Her
+last paper, on Ruth Wyllys, was read at four o'clock one afternoon, and she died
+at ten the same evening, "in harness," as she would have wished.
+Handicapped from early life by serious deafness, Miss Talcott was nevertheless
+very fond of music. She was a cultivated woman of many interests, wide reading,
+and fondness for music and art. A friend wrote, "Her character was singularly
+modest, brave, unselfish, and she fought a good fight for seventy years with
+great fortitude and unfailing cheer." She was a member of the following
+organizations: Arts and Crafts Club of Hartford, Civil Club, Daughters of the
+American Revolution (Ruth Wyllys Chapter), Hartford Art Society, Hartford
+Musical Club, Monday Afternoon Club, Colonial Dames of America, and Society of
+Mayflower Descendants.
+**KATHARINE SEYMOUR**<sup>9</sup> DAY was born in Hartford, 8 May 1870, eldest
+daughter of John Calvin and Alice Beecher (Hooker) Day; her father was only son
+of Calvin Day, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, descended from Robert Day, one
+of the Founders of Hartford in the company of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, and her
+mother was the younger daughter of John Hooker (eighth in descent from the Rev.
+Thomas Hooker) and Isabella Beecher Hooker, daughter of the Rev. Lyman Beecher
+by his second wife (Harriet Porter of Portland, Maine) and half-sister of
+Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher.
+Miss Day and her sister Alice were taught by Miss Julia Burbank; she then
+entered the Hartford High School for two years, leaving to go to Europe with her
+family where they remained for seven years, traveling extensively, and where she
+studied under various tutors. She and her sister were presented to the Kedievah
+of Egypt, at the Court of the King and Queen of Wiirttemberg, and at the British
+Court.
+The family returned to Hartford and occupied for two years the home of Mr. and
+Mrs. Clemens, Mark Twain, who were old friends of the Beecher and Hooker
+families. Thereafter Miss Day's family moved to New York where she studied art
+and became interested in social and civic problems, being a Vice-President of
+the Women's Municipal League, since merged in the Citizens' Union. She continued
+to travel extensively and exhibited in the Salons National and d'Autumn in 1910-12,
+studying art for two years in Paris. Becoming more and more interested in
+education; she graduated from Radcliffe College in 1921, taking her M.A. in
+. She returned to Hartford in 1927, having bought the home of her great-
+aunt, Harriet Beecher Stowe.
+In Hartford she has been actively interested in historic and civic movements,
+founding a civic society, the Friends of Hartford, which undertook saving the
+Mark Twain home-now the Mark Twain Memorial, of which she is First Vice-
+President, and promoted the formation of The Children's Museum, of which she is
+a Trustee. She is also a founder and Deputy Governor of the Descendants of the
+Founders of Hartford, a founder of the Civics Group of Hartford.
+She has in her own home much material relating to Mrs. Stowe.
+She is a member of the National Society of Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the
+American Revolution, the Mayflower Society, New England Women, the Connecticut
+Historical Society, the Connecticut Academy, the Town and County Club of
+Hartford, the Cosmopolitan Club of New York, and the Women's City Club, Boston.
+She is also an M.A. of Trinity College, Hartford.
+**ALICE HOOKER**<sup>9</sup> DAY, the younger daughter of John Calvin and Alice
+Beecher (Hooker) Day, was born in Hartford, 3 Jan. 1872, and, like her sister,
+also educated abroad, and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1902. In 1910 she
+married Percy Jackson of New York City and thereafter lived in New York until
+her death in 1926. She had an active part in all college work, was President of
+the Bryn Mawr Club of New York, was New York Chairman of the Summer School of
+Bryn Mawr College, and for years served on the Board of the New York League of
+Women Voters and the Consumers' League of New York under Mrs. Frederick Nathan,
+and succeeded Mrs. Nathan as president of the New York League. She was also
+Secretaryof the National Consumers' League and a Director in the Citizens'
+Union. She was intensely interested in labor problems, and made many trips to
+Albany and Washington in the interejJt of better working conditions. She was a
+woman of wide intellecttial pursuits and, spending many summers at her ranch in
+New Mexico, became an expert in the archaeology of the Southwest and Central
+America.
+**JOHN DAY<sup>9</sup> JACKSON** (1868-- ), born at Hartford, Conn., was graduated
+from Yale College (A.B) in 1890, and studied at Harvard, the University of
+Berlin, the Sorbonne, and École des Sciences Politiques. He was Washington
+correspondent of the //New York Evening Post// and the //Newark// (N.J.)
+//Evening News,// and was capitol representative of the //Washington Times,//
+to 1896. Since 1896 he has been connected with the //New Haven// (Conn.)
+//Register,// as proprietor and editor since 1905. He is widely known for his
+success in the newspaper field.
+He served at one time as Police Commissioner of New Haven, and for four terms as
+a member of the Board of Education. He is a Republican; and a Congregationalist.
+He is a member of Societe de Legislation Civile Comparee (Paris), American
+Society of Newspaper Editors, National Tax Association, Society of Colonial
+Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Psi Upsilon, Chi Delta Theta, and Elihu Club.
+His wife, Mrs. Rose Marie (Herrick) Jackson, is one of the most remarkable and
+admired women of New Haven; she qualified as a Colonial Dame under Governor John
+Webster of Connecticut, from whom she is descended through Colonel Ebenezer
+Marsh of Litchfield, Conn., the Pitkins of Hartford, and the Lymans of
+Northampton.
+\\ [[133.allyn|(<-- 133. Allyn(6) Seymour)]] [[start|(Back to Start)]] [[135.ashbel|(135. Ashbel(6) Seymour -->)]]