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====== 134. Charles Seymour ====== | ====== 134. Charles Seymour ====== | ||
- | //This page is a placeholder added on 28 Sep 2014. | + | 134. CHARLES< |
+ | // | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | born at West Hartford, Conn., 17 Jan. 1777, died at Hartford, Conn., 21 Jan. | ||
+ | 1852; married at West Hartford, 20 Dec. 1803, CATHARINE< | ||
+ | born at West Hartford, 20 Jan. 1782, died 19 Feb. 1848, daughter of Rev. Nathan< | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | |||
+ | He studied with Rev. Nathan Perkins until he was sixteen, when he became | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | | | 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< | ||
+ | | | | 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< | ||
+ | | | | | (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< | ||
+ | | | | | | A. | Joseph Hamilton< | ||
+ | | | | | (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< | ||
+ | | | | | | 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, | ||
+ | | | | | (3) | Katharine Seymour, m. 4 Dec. 1909, Percy Hamilton Goodsell, s. of James Henry and Leila Angouleme (Peck). Child: || | ||
+ | | | | | | A. | Percy Hamilton< | ||
+ | | | | | (4) | Elizabeth Huntington, m. 20 Oct. 1909, Martin Sheeler Watts, s. of James and Mary (Sheeler). Children: || | ||
+ | | | | | | A. | Martin Seymour Huntington< | ||
+ | | | | | | 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, | ||
+ | | 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. 11 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< | ||
+ | | | | 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< | ||
+ | woman of strong | ||
+ | chronic invalid from arthritis, and at the last was blind. | ||
+ | **CHARLES< | ||
+ | corporations, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | sisters, who led the typical, narrow life of "old maids" in those days. " | ||
+ | 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 " | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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**< | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | William Bradford, Thomas Dudley, John Haynes, William Pitkin, John Webster, and | ||
+ | George Wyllys,six ministers, | ||
+ | Solomon Stoddard, Rev. John Warham, Rev. John Whiting, and Rev. Timothy | ||
+ | Woodbridge, | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | at ten the same evening, "in harness," | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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." | ||
+ | organizations: | ||
+ | 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**< | ||
+ | daughter of John Calvin and Alice Beecher (Hooker) Day; her father was only son | ||
+ | of Calvin Day, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | to travel extensively and exhibited in the Salons National and d' | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | 1922. 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | She is also an M.A. of Trinity College, Hartford. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **ALICE HOOKER**< | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | and succeeded Mrs. Nathan as president of the New York League. She was also | ||
+ | Secretaryof the National Consumers' | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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 // | ||
+ | 1893 to 1896. Since 1896 he has been connected with the //New Haven// (Conn.) | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | Marsh of Litchfield, Conn., the Pitkins of Hartford, and the Lymans of | ||
+ | Northampton. | ||
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