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 aptitude for mechanics and could not have had better schooling than in this aptitude for mechanics and could not have had better schooling than in this
 small shop in the village. When sixteen years old he went with his Cousins Henry small shop in the village. When sixteen years old he went with his Cousins Henry
-and George Kellogg (the latter the father of Clara Louise Kellogg, the famous+and [[wp>George Kellogg]] (the latter the father of [[wp>Clara Louise Kellogg]], the famous
 American singer) to the academy at Westfield, Massachusetts, of which the American singer) to the academy at Westfield, Massachusetts, of which the
 principal was Amos Cheeseboro. At that time the Westfield Academy enjoyed a fine principal was Amos Cheeseboro. At that time the Westfield Academy enjoyed a fine
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 discussion of public affairs in his own family circle. His Grandfather Seymour discussion of public affairs in his own family circle. His Grandfather Seymour
 had been an ardent Federalist, but his father, out of deep conviction, had had been an ardent Federalist, but his father, out of deep conviction, had
-become an apostate,-a Democrat. His father's defection from the political faith+become an apostate, -- a Democrat. His father's defection from the political faith
 of the family gave birth to endless arguments and led him to wider reading. of the family gave birth to endless arguments and led him to wider reading.
 Thus, in his early youth he read the four volumes of Jefferson's "Correspondence Thus, in his early youth he read the four volumes of Jefferson's "Correspondence
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 | iv. | LILLA WELLS, b. 10 May 1852; d. 7 Nov. 1854.  |||| | iv. | LILLA WELLS, b. 10 May 1852; d. 7 Nov. 1854.  ||||
 | v. | JOHN CHURCHILL, b. 5 June 1853; d. same day.  |||| | v. | JOHN CHURCHILL, b. 5 June 1853; d. same day.  ||||
-| vi. | GRACE ELLA, b. 13 July 1856; d. at Bristol, 23 Apr. 1925; m. at Bristol, 11 Oct. 1881, WILLIAH SHURTLEFF INGRAHAM, b. at Bristol, 25 Apr. 1857, d. there 14 Dec. 1930, s. of Edward and Jane Eliza (Beach). He m. (2) in June 1928, Mrs. Edith (Mather) Tuttle.  ||||+| vi. | GRACE ELLA, b. 13 July 1856; d. at Bristol, 23 Apr. 1925; m. at Bristol, 11 Oct. 1881, WILLIAM SHURTLEFF INGRAHAM, b. at Bristol, 25 Apr. 1857, d. there 14 Dec. 1930, s. of Edward and Jane Eliza (Beach). He m. (2) in June 1928, Mrs. Edith (Mather) Tuttle.  ||||
 | | Children, b. at Bristol  |||| | | Children, b. at Bristol  ||||
 | | I. | Faith Allen<sup>10</sup>, b. 30 Apr. 1886. She assumed her middle name on learning that a paternal ancestress, Faith Allen, was hanged for witchcraft on Gallows Hill at Salem, Mass., in 1692. She m. at Bristol, Morton Candee Treadway, b. at Bristol, 26 Jan. 1887, s. of Charles Seth and Lucy (Townsend). He was educated at Phillips Andover and Yale College (B.A., 1910). Mrs. Treadway has been active from her girlhood in the church, civic and social affairs of the community; member of the D.A.R. and of the Conn. Society of Colonial Dames. She takes great pride in carrying on her gifted mother's philanthropic and social obligations.  ||| | | I. | Faith Allen<sup>10</sup>, b. 30 Apr. 1886. She assumed her middle name on learning that a paternal ancestress, Faith Allen, was hanged for witchcraft on Gallows Hill at Salem, Mass., in 1692. She m. at Bristol, Morton Candee Treadway, b. at Bristol, 26 Jan. 1887, s. of Charles Seth and Lucy (Townsend). He was educated at Phillips Andover and Yale College (B.A., 1910). Mrs. Treadway has been active from her girlhood in the church, civic and social affairs of the community; member of the D.A.R. and of the Conn. Society of Colonial Dames. She takes great pride in carrying on her gifted mother's philanthropic and social obligations.  |||
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 | | | (3) | Dudley Seymour. b. 1 Oct. 1924.  || | | | (3) | Dudley Seymour. b. 1 Oct. 1924.  ||
 | | | (4) | Robert Appleton, b. 18 Aug. 1927.  || | | | (4) | Robert Appleton, b. 18 Aug. 1927.  ||
-| vii. | GEORGE DUDLEY, b. 6 Oct. 1859; ed. graded schools, Bristol, Conn., and Hartford Public High School (1878); LL.B. (Columbian University, now George Washington, Law School, 1880); LL.M. (same, 1881); hon, M.A. (Yale, 1913); L.H.D. (George Washington Univ., 1921).  ||||+| vii. | [[GEORGE DUDLEY]], b. 6 Oct. 1859; ed. graded schools, Bristol, Conn., and Hartford Public High School (1878); LL.B. (Columbian University, now George Washington, Law School, 1880); LL.M. (same, 1881); hon, M.A. (Yale, 1913); L.H.D. (George Washington Univ., 1921).  ||||
 | viii. | HELEN WELLS, b. 29 Jan. 1864; d. 12 July 1866.  |||| | viii. | HELEN WELLS, b. 29 Jan. 1864; d. 12 July 1866.  ||||
 +
 +**Miss LAURA ELECTA SEYMOUR** (1846--1921), eldest daughter of Henry Albert and
 +Electa (Churchill) Seymour, was born in New Hartford, Conn., 5 April 1846, and
 +removed to Bristol in the same year. She was educated in Bristol schools and a
 +private school in Hartford. There she had for her teacher Mrs. Virginia Hubbard
 +Curtis, who, after her removal to New Haven, never failed to speak to the author
 +in highest terms of his sister Laura. She was teaching school in East Orange,
 +New Jersey, at the time of her mother's death in 1873, and she then returned to
 +Bristol to take the headship of her father's household, which she never
 +relinquished nor from which was she absent except on the occasions of several
 +trips to Europe.  She was so reserved, so reticent, so averse to anything like
 +publicity, that the author has been very reluctant to include her portrait in
 +this volume.
 +
 +**HENRY ALBERT<sup>9</sup> SEYMOUR, JR.** (1847--1921) went from Bristol schools
 +to Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, in company with Miles Lewis
 +Peck, his future brother-in-law. After returning home, he was occupied as a
 +telegraph operator for a time until in 1870 he had an opportunity to take a
 +clerkship in the Census Bureau in Washington under General Francis A. Walker. He
 +soon transferred to the United States Patent Office where he found his //metier
 +//and where, under competitive examinations, he rapidly rose through the
 +different grades and ultimately became the Law Clerk. Meanwhile he attended the
 +Law School of Columbian University, which is now George Washington University,
 +graduating with the degree of LL.B. in 1874. He was admitted to the District of
 +Columbia Bar the same year and in 1878 to practice before the Bar of the Supreme
 +Court of the United States. In 1875 he resigned from the Government service and
 +opened an office in Washington for the soliciting of patents and the practice of
 +patent law. He was eminently successful, due to his unusual ability and
 +adaptability for this work and to his exceptional personal qualities of securing
 +the confidence of his clients. He practised his profession up to the time of his
 +retirement a few years before his death. He was especially effective in patent
 +litigation involving the electrical art, notably electric lighting.
 +
 +Mr. Seymour favored his mother's family in looks and in temperament. He had his
 +mother's fresh complexion, blue eyes, and her voice in speaking and laughing. As
 +a young man he was an ardent ball player and also excelled in the now obsolete
 +game of wicket, described in his brother's brochure, "The Old-Time Game of
 +Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players." He was devoted to trout fishing and
 +often broke away to return to his native village to fish in the streams familiar
 +to him in boyhood. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman. In his later years he spent
 +much time in the spring and summer cruising on the Potomac.
 +
 +He was a Mason, a member of Columbia Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, of
 +Washington. Among the clubs of which he was a member were the Cosmos Club,
 +Metropolitan Club of Washington, Union League Club of New York, Chevy Chase
 +Club, New York Yacht Club, Capital City Yacht Club, and the New Haven Yacht
 +Club, of which he was past Commodore.
 +
 +He was devoted to the game of Whist and a fine billiardist. All his life he was
 +noted for his charm of manner. He had a rare gift of attracting friends to
 +himself without apparent effort on his part.
 +
 +The author would fail in his duty to the memory of his brother if he did not
 +express in this place the great obligation to him for taking him, just out of
 +High School, into his office and training him for the profession that has been
 +his life work.
 +
 +Mrs. Seymour, nee Mary Marilla Leggett, a woman of unusual charm and vivacity,
 +an Ohioan by birth, was her husband's second cousin. Her mother Marilla Wells, a
 +daughter of Captain Absalom Wells, a pioneer settler in the Western Reserve, had
 +lived in New Hartford before moving to the West. Marilla Wells and her older
 +sister Harriet had been childhood friends and intimate with Mr. Seymour's
 +mother, Electa Churchill. Mrs, Seymour's father, General Mortimer Dormer Leggett
 +(1841--1896), had a notable career as a soldier. He was active throughout the
 +Civil War, took a prominent part in the siege of Vicksburg, and was with General
 +Sherman in his march to the sea. After the war, General Leggett was appointed
 +Commissioner of Patents by General Grant, who refers handsomely to him in his
 +"Personal Memoirs."
 +
 +Mr. Seymour and his wife and daughters, Rae Mortimer (Mrs. Josiah Dwight) and
 +Helen Wells, are buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge.
 +
 +**LAURA LEGGETT<sup>10</sup> (SEYMOUR) DOOLITTLE** (1873-- ) was educated at The
 +Friends School in Washington, D. C, and Wells College, Aurora, New York. She is
 +a member of the Women's Board of the New Haven Hospital, of the New Haven Orphan
 +Asylum, of the Mother's Aid Society; a member of the Connecticut Society,
 +Colonial Dames of America, Daughters of the American Revolution, American
 +Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, the New Haven Lawn
 +Club, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Herb Society of America. She is a
 +collector of first editions and colonial antiquities.
 +
 +**RAE MORTIMER<sup>10</sup> (SEYMOUR) DWIGHT** (1877--1933) was educated in the
 +Friends School in Washington, D. C, and at a private school in New Milford,
 +Connecticut, was a keen wit, and a vivacious writer in prose and verse. As a
 +citizen of Orlando, Florida, after her marriage, she was much interested in the
 +charitable activities of the place and contributed a great deal to the social
 +service of the city and helped several young people through college. Her
 +husband, Josiah Dwight, -- she was his second wife, -- was grandson of Hon.
 +Josiah<sup>5</sup>//(Col. Josiah<sup>4</sup>, Capt. Henry<sup>3</sup>,
 +Timothy<sup>2</sup>, John<sup>1</sup>)// and Rhoda (Edwards), the latter being
 +granddaughter of the noted theologian, [[wp>Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Rev.
 +Jonathan Edwards]], and own cousin of the first Timothy Dwight, President of
 +Yale College.
 +
 +**HELEN WELLS<sup>10</sup> SEYMOUR** (1878--1937) was educated in the Friends
 +School in Washington, D. C, and she took special courses for two years in
 +Columbia University and in the Doshisha Women's College, Kyoto, Japan. She spent
 +several years of her life in Japan and China, was a collector of textiles and
 +Japanese wall paintings, received diplomas in several Japanese arts, on which
 +she lectured as a voluntary service, in the Women's College, Kyoto. She was a
 +member of the Society of Women Geographers, of the Japan Society, the Society
 +for Japanese Studies, and the Washington Club. She was a gifted painter of
 +Japanese subjects and exhibited her work both in Japan and the United States.
 +She left a rare and valuable collection of textiles, both Japanese and Chinese,
 +and some fine wall paintings.
 +
 +**MARY HARRIET<sup>9</sup> (SEYMOUR) PECK** (1849--1926), a native of Bristol,
 +lived there all her life, and died five years after she and her husband
 +celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary. Mr. Peck is a prominent banker, and
 +was president of the Bristol and Plainville Tramway Company. Mrs. Peck, with
 +Mrs. Edward E. Newell, founded the Evening School, later incorporated in the
 +Bristol Public School system. She was one of the organizing Board of the Bristol
 +Visiting Nurse Association, and was most helpful in all its work. She served as
 +a director, and was secretary, of the Charity Department until failing health
 +made it impossible for her to attend its meetings. She was always deeply
 +interested in this work, and her interest and sympathy were freely expressed,
 +not only in wise counsel, but in many practical ways.
 +
 +She was a member of the Alpha Reading Club, The Bristol Visiting Nurse
 +Association, and the Katherine Gaylord Chapter, D. A. R., the Red Cross, and all
 +agencies that served the welfare of the community.   She served her D. A. R.
 +Chapter as Registrar for many years, and her energy and initiative were
 +responsible for improving and maintaining the old graveyards of the town. She
 +had a beautiful, lyric soprano voice.
 +
 +"Among my sister Laura's papers, which I was examining preparatory to burning, I
 +found the wedding cards of Piera Root and Edward E. Newell. This recalled to my
 +mind my boyhood thrill when my sister Mary came down in her white bridesmaid's
 +dress to enter the carriage which was to take her to the wedding, where she was
 +to act as bridesmaid. I had never seen her so 'dressed up' and never had
 +realized how beautiful she was. She had a beautiful slender figure and delicate
 +color, and magnificent hair which I suppose she wore as usual on the top of her
 +head in what was then called 'coronet braids.' I remember that as she swept into
 +our parlor and out of our front door I thought she was probably one of the most
 +beautiful young women in existence. As a matron she was remarkable for her air
 +of nobility and dignity." --//G.D.S.//
 +
 +"Mrs. Peck had a fine mind, cultivated by reading and study. She was well-
 +informed in current history and in the trend of modern thought. She was not much
 +interested in the controversial side of religion, nor in the argumentative
 +points of political questions. She was not perturbed about the changing status
 +of women, nor the modern trend of social customs. She had deep and abiding
 +convictions, undisturbed by theories. She knew what kind of a life a woman ought
 +to live in her home, in her community, in society, in the world of affairs, and
 +she lived that kind of life herself, abundantly, unostentatiously, serenely.
 +
 +"She performed 'the daily round, the common task,' with gracious serenity and
 +steadfast loyalty. She had a correct estimate of the relative values in life,
 +and she lived and reared her family in accordance with this estimate. A rich and
 +noble heritage, for her children and her children's children!" --//Obituary,
 +P.S.P.//
 +
 +**JOSIAH HENRY<sup>10</sup> PECK** (1873-- ), B.A. (Yale, 1895), LL.B. (Harvard,
 +1898), spent four years in the law offices of Brigham & Bailey in New York City,
 +then established himself in practice in Hartford, Conn. One of the outstanding
 +figures at the Hartford Bar, he is known as a lawyer's lawyer; a man of wide
 +range of general information; and a collector of books. He has been all his life
 +an expert card-player, and is a devotee of contract bridge. He declined an
 +appointment to the bench of the Superior Court. His wife was a daughter of Rev.
 +Francis E. Tower, of Providence, R. I., formerly pastor of the Baptist Church in
 +Bristol, Conn.
 +
 +**HOWARD SEYMOUR<sup>10</sup> PECK** (1874--1928), educated at the Bristol High
 +School, and at Yale College, Class of 1896, followed in the footsteps of his
 +grandfather Peck and took up life and fire insurance. He was successful as a
 +business man. As a youth, he was active, athletic, and a fine pianist. In
 +boyhood, he played baseball; in middle life, golf; and he was always a skilful
 +whist player. He built a beautiful house in Bristol on land long in his father's
 +family. His was a retiring nature, and he never entered public life if he could
 +avoid it. He died in his sleep, probably as the result of an automobile accident
 +of some time before.
 +
 +**Miss HILDA MARGARET<sup>10</sup> PECK** (1881-- ), eldest daughter of Mary
 +Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck of Bristol, was educated in Bristol
 +Public Schools, Mary A. Burnham School, Northampton, Mass., and Vassar College.
 +She is untiring in her service to the church and community and to Vassar; member
 +of numerous clubs and societies; Vassar Club of New York, and the Connecticut
 +Society of Colonial Dames of America; especially interested in the Visiting
 +Nurse Association. She spent nearly a year in the Orient in 1928, most of the
 +time in Japan with her cousin, Helen Wells Seymour, then living in Kyoto, and
 +also enjoyed a five weeks' trip to Peking, China. She returned to Kyoto in time
 +for the ceremonies attendant on the enthronement of the Emperor Hirohito.
 +
 +**RACHEL KEZIA<sup>10</sup> (PECK) JENNINGS** (1883-- ), second daughter of Mary
 +Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck, was educated in Bristol schools and at
 +Vassar College (B.A., 1905). She is possessed of a quick and keen mind, and at
 +Vassar excelled in Latin, the subject in which her great-uncle, Professor Tracy
 +Peck (Yale, 1861) attained eminence. After an equestrian courtship, she was
 +married, in 1910, to Hon. Newell Jennings.
 +
 +Judge Jennings was graduated from Yale College in 1904 (his father's //alma
 +mater //in 1876), and from the Yale Law School //cum laude //in 1907. He was
 +admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1907, and practiced his profession in Bristol
 +from 1907 to 1922. In 1922 he received an appointment from Governor Everett Lake
 +to the Superior Court Bench. In that position he won the admiration of the
 +entire Connecticut Bar by his judicial temper, courtesy, and firmness. In 1936
 +he was raised by Governor Wilbur L. Cross to the Supreme Court of the State.
 +
 +In Bristol he is a trustee of the Savings Bank; has served as chairman of the
 +Board of Education since 1924; and is a member of the Board of Directors of the
 +Library. He is a Republican, and a Congregationalist. He resigned from most of
 +his clubs when raised to the Supreme Court, but retains membership in the
 +Graduates Club, New Haven; the Franklin Lodge of Masons; and the Chippanee
 +Country Club in Bristol; Beta Theta Pi, and Phi Beta Kappa.
 +
 +**MARY MILES LEWIS<sup>10</sup> PECK**, daughter of Mary Harriet (Seymour) and
 +Miles Lewis Peck, was educated in Bristol schools and at Vassar, from which she
 +graduated with honors; member of Phi Beta Kappa; social worker; president since
 +its foundation in 1928 of the Bristol Girls' Club Association, occupying a
 +building presented by her father through her to the town of Bristol. She went
 +around the world in 1935 with a companion who had many friends among
 +missionaries and native students in Oriental countries. In India they spent an
 +afternoon in the home of Gandhi and were surprised to find the Mahatma to be a
 +man of humor. They also visited the school founded by the venerable poet and
 +educator, Sir Rabindranath Tagore. The author imagines that his niece had a less
 +interesting experience with Tagore than her uncle did when he visited the
 +Elizabethan Club in New Haven.  Miss Peck is an accomplished pianist and
 +vocalist.
 +
 +**GRACE ELLA<sup>9</sup> (SEYMOUR) INGRAHAM** (1856--1925) was educated in
 +Bristol schools and Hartford Public High School (Class of 1876). She was a
 +successful school teacher in East Orange, New Jersey, for a short period before
 +her marriage, after which she became a leading figure in the life of Bristol. In
 +addition to her work in the Congregational Church, of which she was a life-long
 +member, and in the civic and philanthropic activities of the community, she
 +followed her mother's tradition of hospitality. She was very active as a
 +director of the Bristol Visiting Nurse Association, the Bristol Public Welfare
 +Association, the Bristol Chapter of American Red Cross, and the Women's Civic
 +Club, and gave much of her time to the work of the Red Cross during the war. She
 +was a teacher in the church and a member of the committees of the various church
 +organizations. She was a member of the Katherine Gaylord Chapter, D. A. R.,
 +served as its Regent, was many times a member of its board, and attended many of
 +the meetings of the national congress in Washington. She was a member of the
 +Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames of America and served on its committees of
 +education and Americanization. She was always ready to help the sick or needy or
 +bereaved. In an obituary notice published after her death it was said in part:
 +
 +<blockquote>
 +"Mrs. Ingraham was splendidly endowed intellectually. She had a
 +fine mind which was kept alert with reading and with study. She knew and
 +appreciated the best in literature, in art, and in music, and was herself a fine
 +musician.
 +
 +"She was well informed in current history and religious thought. She held
 +independent opinions and strong convictions, but was tolerant and considerate of
 +the convictions of others. She was a gentlewoman of great personal charm who was
 +sympathetic, kind, and approachable; so she drew many people to herself and
 +never antagonized any.
 +
 +"One thinks of her as the Dean of Women in Bristol, the acknowledged leader, by
 +right of her noble womanhood."
 +</blockquote>
 +
 +Mrs. Ingraham shared with her sisters a beautiful speaking voice and she had a
 +rare, engaging personality. It was remarked of her that she had inherited her
 +mother's beautiful hands. It is not too much to say that with her sisters, Laura
 +and Mary, she contributed more to the intellectual and social tone of the
 +community in which she lived than any other three women that could be mentioned.
 +Her three children cherish her memory and find in her life an inspiring motive
 +for gracious and useful living.
 +
 +**WILLIAM SHURTLEFF INGRAHAM** (1857--1930), husband of Grace Ella Seymour, was
 +a native of Bristol, Conn., and the son of Edward Ingraham and Jane Eliza
 +(Beach) Ingraham. He was named after William Shurtleff, a member of the Yale
 +Class of 1854, and a classmate and close friend of Edward Ingraham, his father.
 +
 +William Shurtleff Ingraham received his education in the public schools of
 +Milford and Bristol, Conn., later entering the Stamford Military Institute.
 +After graduating from that institution, he entered Cornell University in the
 +class of 1879 but did not graduate, leaving to enter the employ of The E.
 +Ingraham Company in March 1876. He went to work in the office on May 1st, 1879,
 +and continued to serve the Company up until the time of his death on December
 +14th, 1930. He first served as secretary of the Company and later became
 +treasurer and general manager, which position he held continuously for
 +approximately forty years.
 +
 +He was also a director and vice president of the Bristol National Bank, American
 +Trust Company and the North Side Bank & Trust Company. He was also director of
 +the Bristol Brass Corporation and the American Silver Company. For many years he
 +was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Burgess of Bristol. He was
 +also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bristol Free Public Library, and
 +during this period the new Library was built. He was a member of the Society of
 +Colonial Wars, of the Chippanee Country Club,--of which he was the first
 +president, the Farmington Club and of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
 +
 +**EDWARD<sup>10</sup> INGRAHAM** (1887--1972) was educated at Andover Academy
 +and at Yale College (B.A., 1910). Wishing to volunteer for service in the World
 +War, he was rejected because of defective vision by several military
 +organizations, but was inducted 23 Oct. 1918 and assigned to Headquarters
 +Company, 44th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Monroe; transferred to 152d
 +Depot Brigade, Camp Upton; Corporal, discharged 17 Dec. 1918.
 +
 +He entered the family business in Bristol, Conn., and in 1927 became president
 +of The E. Ingraham Company, manufacturers of clocks, a concern founded by his
 +great-grandfather Elias Ingraham. He has been active in town and church affairs.
 +He is a trustee of the Bristol Savings Bank, of which his grandfather Seymour
 +was one of the founders, and a director of the Bristol National Bank; director
 +of The Bristol Brass Corporation, Veeder-Root, Inc., Associated Spring Company,
 +and International Silver Company. Since 1915 he has been president, excepting
 +one year, of the Bristol Boys' Club Association. Former elected member of Board
 +of Relief; member of Board of Finance; member of State Planning Board; chairman
 +of Board of Directors of Bristol Free Public Library. He is also a director of
 +Boys' Clubs of America, Inc. He is a Congregationalism and formerly a deacon.
 +Beta Theta Pi; Rotary; Mason.
 +
 +He is a student of the history of clock-making in Connecticut, and has a fine
 +and representative collection in that field. He is an ardent collector of
 +etchings and engravings, furniture and American antiques; and is an enthusiastic
 +angler, and a director of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club of Quebec.
 +
 +**DUDLEY SEYMOUR<sup>10</sup> INGRAHAM** (1890--1982), namesake of his uncle,
 +the author of the present volume, was educated at Andover Academy and Cornell
 +University (LL.B., 1913), his father's Alma Mater. Shortly after America entered
 +the World War, he volunteered, was accepted, placed against his will in the
 +Medical Department, where he became Sergeant 1st Class, but later secured a
 +transfer to an Infantry and then to a Machine Gun Division, and at the
 +termination of the War was al a Machine Gun Officers' Training Camp at Augusta,
 +Georgia.
 +
 +Immediately upon leaving college he entered the family business in Bristol, and
 +in 1923 became Vice President and later succeeded his father as Treasurer. He
 +has been active in public affairs, having been a director and member of the
 +Executive Committee of the Bristol Hospital since it was founded, Chairman of
 +the House Committee of the Visiting Nurse and family Welfare Association for
 +fifteen years, Chairman of a Community Chest Drive, member of the Board of Fire
 +Commissioners (where he acted as Chairman of a Committee that put into effect
 +the first Civil Service basis of selection and advancement in any hire
 +Department in the State), member of the Board of Education, member of the
 +Manufacturers Division of the State Tercentenary Commission, member of Governor
 +Cross's State Highway Safety Commission and Chairman of the Manufacturers
 +Division thereof, and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the 1939
 +New York World's Fair. He is also First Vice-President of the Bristol Savings
 +Bank, of which his grandfather--Henry Albert Seymour--was one of the founders
 +and its first President. He is also a director of the Bristol Bank & Trust Co.
 +and The Bristol Brass Corporation. He is a member of the Congregational Church,
 +where for a number of years he served as Superintendent of the Church School,
 +and in politics is classed as a Republican. He is a member of Delta Chi
 +Fraternity, a member of the American Legion, Past President of the Bristol
 +Rotary Club, and a member of the Farmington and Chippanee Country Clubs. He is
 +an enthusiastic collector of paintings and would be classed as a realist in his
 +tastes, which lean to works of the Barbizon Period and of the corresponding
 +period in American Art.
 +
 +**[[George_Dudley|GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR]]** (1859--1945).  //See separate entry.//
  
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