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 ====== 253. Hon. Henry William Seymour ====== ====== 253. Hon. Henry William 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//+253. HON. HENRY WILLIAM<sup>7</sup> SEYMOUR 
 +(//[[159.william_henry|William H.]]//<sup>6</sup>, //[[077.samuel|Samuel]]//<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>), 
 +//{James3, Samuel5, Moses4, John3, John2, Richard1),// 
 +born at Brockport, N.Y., 21 July 1834, died at Washington, D.C., 6 Apr. 1906; 
 +married first, 27 Oct. 1860, ISABEL KANDELL, who died 4 May 1874; married 
 +second, 30 June 1873, ELIZABETH CRAIG, who died 22 June 1876; married third, 29 
 +June 1880, HARRIET L. GILLETTE.
  
-**If you have an interest in this person, //please// [[:contact me]] and I will make an effort to get this page added.**+He attended the Brockport Collegiate Institute and the Canandaigua Academy, and 
 +was graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., in 1855; studied law 
 +in Albany, N.Y., taking lectures at the Albany law school, and was admitted to 
 +practice May, 1856; engaged in the manufacture of reapers, and subsequently in 
 +the manufacture of lumber and in fanning. Me was elected to the State House of 
 +Representative! in I880j member of the State Senate in 1882 and 1886; elected as 
 +a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress, to fill vacancy caused by the death of 
 +Seth C. Moffatt, and served from 22 Dec. 1887 to 4 Mar. 1889. 
 + 
 +Mr. Seymour felt a deep interest in the family historyand spent much time and 
 +money in a futile quest for the origin of the American Seymours abroad, 
 +employing for that purpose Lt.-Col. Vivian, the noted antiquarian of Devonshire, 
 +and professional genealogists in other parts of England, including Mr. W. F. 
 +Noble, an antiquarian of high repute. Mr. Seymour died before the problem was 
 +solved by Mr. J. Gardner Bartlett's discoveries in the parish records of co. 
 +Herts. 
 + 
 +^ Child by first wife: ^^ 
 +| i. | William Henry<sup>8</sup>, d. 8 Mar. 1874, ae. 17 mos. | 
 +^ Child by third wife^^ 
 +| ii. | Helen, b. in 1882; m. in 1910, Merlin Wiley, a lawyer, of Detroit and Grosse Pointe, Mich|
  
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