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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< |
+ | (//[[159.william_henry|William H.]]//< | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | //{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, | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | Mr. Seymour felt a deep interest in the family history, and 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' | ||
+ | Herts. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ^ Child by first wife: ^^ | ||
+ | | i. | William Henry< | ||
+ | ^ Child by third wife: ^^ | ||
+ | | ii. | Helen, b. in 1882; m. in 1910, Merlin Wiley, a lawyer, of Detroit | ||
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