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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, | American singer) to the academy at Westfield, Massachusetts, | ||
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' | + | become an apostate, |
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' | Thus, in his early youth he read the four volumes of Jefferson' | ||
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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 | + | | vi. | GRACE ELLA, b. 13 July 1856; d. at Bristol, 23 Apr. 1925; m. at Bristol, 11 Oct. 1881, WILLIAM |
| | Children, b. at Bristol | | | Children, b. at Bristol | ||
| | I. | Faith Allen< | | | I. | Faith Allen< | ||
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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), | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | Bristol to take the headship of her father' | ||
+ | relinquished nor from which was she absent except on the occasions of several | ||
+ | trips to Europe. | ||
+ | publicity, that the author has been very reluctant to include her portrait in | ||
+ | this volume. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **HENRY ALBERT< | ||
+ | to Williston Seminary, Easthampton, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | mother' | ||
+ | a young man he was an ardent ball player and also excelled in the now obsolete | ||
+ | game of wicket, described in his brother' | ||
+ | Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players." | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | mother, Electa Churchill. Mrs, Seymour' | ||
+ | (1841--1896), | ||
+ | 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 | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mr. Seymour and his wife and daughters, Rae Mortimer (Mrs. Josiah Dwight) and | ||
+ | Helen Wells, are buried in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **LAURA LEGGETT< | ||
+ | Friends School in Washington, D. C, and Wells College, Aurora, New York. She is | ||
+ | a member of the Women' | ||
+ | Asylum, of the Mother' | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | Friends School in Washington, D. C, and at a private school in New Milford, | ||
+ | Connecticut, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | Timothy< | ||
+ | granddaughter of the noted theologian, [[wp> | ||
+ | Jonathan Edwards]], and own cousin of the first Timothy Dwight, President of | ||
+ | Yale College. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **HELEN WELLS< | ||
+ | School in Washington, D. C, and she took special courses for two years in | ||
+ | Columbia University and in the Doshisha Women' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | member of the Society of Women Geographers, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | agencies that served the welfare of the community. | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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 ' | ||
+ | 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 ' | ||
+ | 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." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | |||
+ | "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' | ||
+ | P.S.P.// | ||
+ | |||
+ | **JOSIAH HENRY< | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | range of general information; | ||
+ | an expert card-player, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | Harriet (Seymour) and Miles Lewis Peck of Bristol, was educated in Bristol | ||
+ | Public Schools, Mary A. Burnham School, Northampton, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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. | ||
+ | vocalist. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **GRACE ELLA< | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | director of the Bristol Visiting Nurse Association, | ||
+ | Association, | ||
+ | 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: | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | "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, | ||
+ | the convictions of others. She was a gentlewoman of great personal charm who was | ||
+ | sympathetic, | ||
+ | never antagonized any. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "One thinks of her as the Dean of Women in Bristol, the acknowledged leader, by | ||
+ | right of her noble womanhood." | ||
+ | </ | ||
+ | |||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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), | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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< | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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, | ||
+ | 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 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< | ||
+ | the author of the present volume, was educated at Andover Academy and Cornell | ||
+ | University (LL.B., 1913), his father' | ||
+ | the World War, he volunteered, | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | 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' | ||
+ | Division thereof, and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the 1939 | ||
+ | New York World' | ||
+ | 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). | ||
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