American Seymour Genealogy

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====== 248. William Pierce Seymour ======

248. WILLIAM PIERCE<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR, M.D. (//[[155.israel_t|Israel
T.]]//<sup>6</sup>, //[[076.aaron|Aaron]]//<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 Troy, N.Y., 17 Oct. 1825, died there 7 Apr. 1893; married 13 May 1852,
HELEN HUGHES WOTKYNS, who died 11 Feb. 1884, daughter of Dr. Alfred Wotkyns.

He was graduated from Williams College in 1845 and in 1848 from the University
of Pennsylvania. On incorporation of Marshall Infirmary he was appointed
governor. In 1854 he was elected health officer of the city and held the office
for three terms. From 1857 to 1862 he was professor of materia medica and
therapeutics in Castleton Medical College, Vermont; in 1858 he filled the chair
or materia medica in the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass.; in 1863
was transferred to the chair of obstetrics and gynecology, which he resigned in
1865. In 1863 he was also commissioned as one of the "Auxiliary Corps of
Volunteer Surgeons" of the State of New York; served at Fredericksburg in May
1864, immediately after the Battle of the Wilderness, taking charge of the
"white mansion hospital." In 1870 he joined the faculty of the Albany Medical
College. He was a member of the Rensselaer Medical Society, of the State Medical
Society, and of the American Medical Association for the Advancement of Science.
He invented various gynecological apparatus.

^ Children: ^^^
| i. | WILLIAM WOTKYNS<sup>8</sup>, b. at Troy, 29 July 1853; d. in 1904; grad. Yale College, 1875; physician; m. at Shoreham, Vt., Jan. 1883, Frances Minturn. ||
| | Child: ||
| | 1. | Helen Minturn<sup>9</sup>, b. 1883. |
| ii. | ALFRED WOTKYNS, b. 12 June 1856. ||

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