American Seymour Genealogy

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302. THOMAS DAY<sup>8</sup> SEYMOUR
(//[[237.nathan_perkins|Nathan Perkins]]//<sup>7</sup>,
//[[134.charles|Charles]]//<sup>6</sup>, //[[068.charles|Charles]]//<sup>5</sup>,
//[[021.timothy|Timothy]]//<sup>4</sup>, //[[008.John|John]]//<sup>3</sup>,
//[[003.John|John]]//<sup>2</sup>, //[[001.Richard|Richard]]//<sup>1</sup>),
born at Hudson, Ohio, 1 Apr. 1848, died at New Haven, Conn., 31 Dec. 1907;
married at Michigan City, Ind., 2 July 1874, SARAH MELISSA<sup>8</sup>
HITCHCOCK, born at Columbus, Ohio, 27 Sept. 1846, died 20 Mar. 1916, daughter of
Rev. Dr. Henry Lawrence<sup>7</sup> //(Peter<sup>6</sup>, Valentine<sup>5</sup>, Peter<sup>4</sup>, John<sup>3</sup>,
John<sup>2</sup>, Matthias<sup>1</sup>)// and Clarissa Mary Sophia (Ford).

Hudson, Ohio, at the time of Seymour's birth, was intensely New England in its
life, dominated by Western Reserve College, the "Yale of the West," where his
father was professor of Greek and Latin. The character of the boy developed
under the influence of the finest of the Puritan characteristics: self-
sacrifice, thrift, the dignity of unremitting labor, intense but reserved
religious devotion. He was also subject to the intellectual and aesthetic
atmosphere of the College. Brought up in the midst of books, for his father's
library was at one time "distinctly the best library west of the Alleghanies," a
"great worker, with a passion for accuracy," the youth early acquired a
knowledge of the best literature. Studious and reserved in manner, he always
longed for travel and new experience. At the age of sixteen he came to Hartford,
Connecticut, to work on the //Courant//; too young for the army he joined the
Christian Commission, was attached to Grant's victorious army and entered
Richmond immediately after Lee's surrender. He returned to Hudson, entered
Western Reserve in 1866, graduating four years later as valedictorian of his
class. In college his social instincts expanded; he was a prominent member of
the Glee Club and of Alpha Delta Phi.

The young Seymour hesitated between the ministry and a life of scholarship. His
love of the classics decided the problem and led him to seek the best
instruction then available in the world, in the German universities. After
receiving an honorary B.A. from Yale, a rare distinction, he went to Leipzig in
September, 1870, on to Berlin for the second semester, and back to Leipzig again
in the autumn of 1871.   He not merely studied under the greatest classical
scholars of the day, but travelled afoot in the Black Forest and Switzerland,
stayed in Paris, visited Italy, and in the spring of 1872 made his first trip
through Greece. The adventures he and his friend D'Ooge experienced in the Greek
interior, then infested with bandits, were such that the American minister
regarded their safe return as an event of sufficient importance to be made the
subject of a special despatch to his government.

In the autumn of 1872 Seymour returned to Hudson to be Professor of Greek, a
position to which he had been elected two years previously and which he was to
hold until 1880. He threw himself into the routine drudgery of the Western
Reserve faculty with enthusiasm and at once captured the affection of his
students. But he was by no means content to meet routine obligations in a narrow
academic circle; he sought always the companionship of scholars throughout the
nation. He became a member of the American Philological Association, attended
its annual meetings with regularity. He thus formed close friendships with the
leading classicists of America and began to exert marked influence upon
philological studies. In 1880, at the age of 32, he was called to Yale as
Professor of the Greek Language and Literature.

For the following twenty-seven years Seymour's life was bound up with that of
Yale College. With the untimely death of Packard, in 1884, he became head of the
Greek Department, and took an active part in faculty debates on the curriculum
and on college management. He offered courses to seniors, juniors, and graduate
students over a wide range of study: Homer, Pindar, Greek tragedy, Thucydides,
Plato and Aristotle, Demosthenes and Isocrates, Theocritus, the Septuagint, the
New Testament, Bacchylides, the Greek dialects. Plato was his constant
companion. He carried some part of the text with him when he travelled, whether
on the train or on the steamer, and reread it constantly. The //Republic// he
made a practice of reading every summer as he did the entire //Iliad// and
//Odyssey.// He was a constant student of the Greek Testament, which he knew
almost by heart. "He was," wrote the classical authority, John Williams White,
"the best Homeric scholar that America has produced." His contributions to the
study and inter-pretations of Homer were numerous. In the last year of his life
he published //Life in the Homeric Age,// his largest single contribution to
knowledge and that upon which his fame as scholar chiefly rests.

Seymour taught continuously until his death in 1907 without taking an entire
year's leave of absence; only twice did he allow himself to discontinue his
teaching to go abroad in March. He carried a schedule which today would be
regarded as impossible. One year he taught twenty-four hours a week, setting the
hours for one of his graduate courses from ten in the evening until midnight. "I
have always been impressed," one of his colleagues wrote, "by his extraordinary
industry, a capacity and passion for work, but this consecration to hard work
was not at all slavish or mechanical. Into it he put discrimination and
intelligent enthusiasm and buoyancy of spirit. This joyous industry was natural
to him." To his teaching duties he added a vast amount of administrative work,
for in those days the Yale College faculty decided and administered its
educational policy. It was said that he had never refused service upon a
committee. For years he was chairman of the Committee on Admissions, and served
as Yale representative on the larger New England Committee. He organized the
Classical Club at Yale and was largely responsible for the growth of its
library. His interests transcended his special field. Because of his love of
music he worked with Dr. Stoeckel for the development of the college choir, was
largely responsible for the organization of the School of Music and the choice
of Horatio Parker as its first Dean. He assisted in the editing of the College
Hymnal and served for a long time as chairman of the committee to choose college
preachers.

His activities in the general world of classical scholarship were constant. He
was one of the editors of the //Classical Review,// joined with Packard and
White in editing the college series of Greek authors, and was influential in the
founding of the American School at Athens. He was chairman of the managing
committee of the School from 1887 to 1902, a period of rapid and successful
development. In 1903 he became president of the Archaeological Institute of
America, a position he held until his death. It is certain that his range of
personal friendship with classical students, young and old, was wider than that
of any other American. He gave summer courses in Chautauqua, Chicago, and
California. Four summers and two half-years he spent in Europe, primarily as
student rather than tourist, for he never took a vacation. He never lost his
eagerness to learn. He loved to visit the foreign universities, talk with their
professors, listen to their lectures. In Greece he visited the excavations and
was never deterred by any hardships incidental to travel. In 1894 his alma
mater, Western Reserve, gave him the degree of LL.D.   The same degree was given
him in 1901 by Glasgow University and in 1906 by Harvard.

Professor Seymour was delicate as a boy because of a severe attack of rheumatic
fever. This he overcame so that in manhood he enjoyed a fine constitution, which
made possible his prodigious industry. He was woefully near-sighted and thus
prevented from playing ball or tennis or golf. Walking he enjoyed and always
looked back to his early trips in the White Mountains and Switzerland as the
recreation he enjoyed most. He stood six feet in his stockings, although at the
end of his life he acquired the scholar's stoop, and weighed 175 pounds. By
reason of his beard, which he wore long, and early greyness, he looked much
older than his years, and took whimsical delight in posing as a patriarch. His
health was such that he never missed a class exercise by reason of illness until
his last. He was struck by grippe on Thanksgiving Day, 1907, just as his //Life
in the Homeric Age// was published. He was unable to throw off the attack, which
after four weeks developed into pneumonia. He died on December 31, 1907. His
mind wandered during his last days and he imagined himself to be back in Athens
in company with his friends of the Archaeological Institute, and almost his last
words referred to the beauty of the Acropolis in the early morning light.

He was married July 2, 1874, to Sarah Melissa Hitchcock, daughter of President
Hitchcock of Western Reserve. There existed between them an understanding so
perfect that it was instinctive for the children to assume that no matter what
the problem their parents looked at it in the same light.

Apart from the range and depth of his scholarship Professor Seymour's most
striking trait was his love of human companionship and the vivid interest he
took in the problems of those he met. He was not a ready "mixer," did not enjoy
casual club life, and when out of his habitual surroundings gave the appearance
of reserve or shyness. But with his intimates and with those who he felt shared
his own tastes he expanded into a beaming geniality illuminated by a keen sense
of humor. He loved group games, group singing, general conversation. Human
institutions were for him of vital importance, and of all the family was the
most important. He came home regularly for three meals a day and every member of
the family was expected to be prompt. Cheerfulness and interest in what the
others were doing he took as a matter of course from each of his children.
Sunday afternoons he read aloud regularly; as the children grew older the Greek
New Testament, especially Acts and the Epistles, were read by the family, the
children translating and he himself interpreting. Every Sunday evening he held
regular family prayers where a psalm would be repeated in unison and three hymns
sung in parts. Family festivals, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, were
carefully observed. He delighted in large family gatherings. Any cousins in
Yale, no matter how distant, he invited to the house, some of them never failing
to appear for Sunday dinner. Relatives and even friends of relatives were
accepted at the house for long visits. Frequently his children would murmur
among themselves, not caring for some of the visitors; but they were never
allowed to express anything but pleasure when a visitor appeared. Foreign
scholars frequently stayed at the house, on their visits to this country, and
the guest book showed an extraordinary range of acquaintanceships. Students who
could not go home for vacation, especially the poorer graduate students, would
be brought in to family meals. Professor Seymour was able to live thus sociably
and yet carry on his work through rare powers of concentration. His
correspondence was large and he wrote his letters by hand. Regu-larly after a
meal he would sit down in the library, entering into family conversation freely
while at the same time he wrote his letters with lightning speed and clear
chirography.

With strong likes and dislikes, Professor Seymour had absolute control of his
temper and never permitted himself or anyone about him to impute unworthy
motives to anyone else. His son, to the day of his father's death, never heard
criticism of a man or woman, although the elder Seymour would at times criticize
qualities in the abstract with vehemence. But generally he expressed himself by
praise. His favorite character in Theophrastus was "The Magnanimous Man," and
his love of largeness of spirit was a salient trait.

The following reminiscences are provided by his daughter, Mrs. Angel:

<blockquote>
He was devoted to the //family,// to his forbears and to all his own generation.
The word "kinsman" as he used it was one of the most affectionate of titles. He
welcomed cousins to his home with the greatest happiness; indeed the strongest
reason for his rejoicing in the large house on Hillhouse Avenue was that he
could ask relatives there freely. His children never heard adverse criticism of
relatives, never the smallest hint even. This was characteristic of him in
general, too, that he seldom expressed before his family any disapproval of
others, whoever they were. We were told that he was known as "the peacemaker" on
the Yale Faculty. He loved geniality, and it irked him to feel a lack of this in
others. He kept himself to a routine of hard work, home for three meals a day,
at work three sessions in college, in class or in his "college room," which was
first in North College, one of the old Brick Row, then in Phelps Hall. He would
normally work there until ten o'clock at night, except when the "Old Gentleman's
Club" had a meeting, or there was a concert to go to, or an occasional dinner
party. He used to say that one had to run always in order not to drop behind. He
took no regular exercise. He had enjoyed rowing, and used to take his children
when they were small out on Lake Whitney. About 1898 or 1899 he bought a second
hand bicycle, heavy with solid tires, and would take small rides on it before
breakfast. He said it had to be at that hour because it shied at traffic. As a
young man, he had been a good walker, and used to take his vacations from home
in that way, walking with other Philologists in the White Mountains. He always
walked to and from home to college, which amounted to about three miles a day in
the last years of his life.

He had almost no relaxations—except concerts or evenings with friends
occasionally. On his trips to Europe, particularly to Greece, he was always
reading Greek on shipboard and in trains. Homer he read through every summer,
one of his greatest pleasures.

Music was dear to him. In his early years at Yale, he sang with his wife in a
choral society but by the time Horatio Parker was conducting his Oratorio
Society, he said his voice was gone, and he was too busy. It is my impression
that it was he chiefly who was responsible for bringing Chamber Concerts to New
Haven (The Kneisel and the Beethoven Quartettes) in the North Sheffield Hall,
and also that it was he who helped to start the Music department at Yale and to
bring Horatio Parker there.

He loved to read aloud, translating Plato and Homer to his family. There was
astonishment in our family once when the wife of a visiting Greek professor
confessed that she did not know what Greek authors her husband loved most; this
would have been impossible in our family.

He was always courteous even to bores. He was genuinely glad to see returning
students and even let himself be imposed upon, as when a stranger, after
breaking into a busy morning with an hour of purposeless talk, rose and said, "I
really didn't know what to do with my time until I had to go to my train, but it
has been very pleasant."

He always liked old people, thoroughly enjoyed—and was amused, as his family
were not—at being called "venerable" even before he was 50. He did not live to
be 60, yet many think of him as having been a patriarch. At Commencement time he
would often fall in line with the early graduates in the procession, and felt
that they took him into their group as a contemporary.
</blockquote>

We include herein a picture of Professor Seymour as a Senior at Western Reserve,
also one from a painting owned by his son, showing him in his later years, as
well as one taken in his study at Phelps Hall.

^ Children: ^^^
| i. | ELIZABETH DAY<sup>9</sup>, b. 21 Jan. 1876; m. in London, Eng., 25 Apr. 1914, JOHN A.NGEL, b. at Newton Abbott, Devon, Eng., 1 Nov. 1881. Children: ||
| | I. | John Lawrence<sup>19</sup>, b. in London, Eng., 21 Mar. 1915; educated in England until 1928, then at The Choate School, Wallingford; B.A. (Magna cum Laude), Harvard, 1936; #BK; m. 1 July 1937, Margaret Seymour Richardson, dau. of Henry B. and Margaret (Carpenter). He is a student of physical anthropology. |
| | II. | Henry Seymour, b. in London, Eng., 20 Jan. 1919; educated at The Choate School, Wallingford: student in Yale University, Class of 1940. |
| ii. | CLARA HITCHCOCK, b. 28 Mar. 1880; m. at New Haven, 23 June 1906, GEORGE CLAIR ST. JOHN, b. at Simsbury, Conn., 29 Sept. 1877, son of Edward Francis and Charlotte Elizabeth (Cush-man) St. John. Children, first three b. at New Haven, fourth at Wallingford, Conn.: ||
| | I. | Elizabeth Seymour<sup>19</sup>, b. 3 Aug. 1908. |
| | II. | George Clair, b. 3 Dec. 1910; m. at Islip, L.I., 19 Dec. 1936, Nancy Hoyt, dau. of Edwin Chase and Maria (Moran). He studied at Le Rosey, Rolle, Switzerland, graduated from The Choate School in 1928, studied for a year at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, and graduated from Harvard College in 1933. He taught for one year at Eton College, England, and since 1934 at The Choate School, Wallingford, Conn. His wife was graduated from Radcliffe College, 1933. |
| | III. | Seymour, b. 28 Feb. 1912; m. in Abington Church, Virginia, 20 June 1936, Margaret Gordon Spencer, dau. of Dr. John Blair and Susan (Gordon). He studied at Le Rosey, Rolle, Switzerland, and was graduated from The Choate School in 1929. He graduated from Yale College in 1933, and since then has taught at The Choate School, Wallingford. Child, b. at New Haven: **(D Gordon Webb11, b. IS July 1937.** |
| | IV. | Francis Cushman, b. 31 July 1916.   He studied at LeRosey, Rolle, Switzerland, and was graduated from The Choate School in 1934; student in Princeton University, Class of 1938. |
| iii. | CHARLES, b. 1 Jan. 1885; m. 4 May 1911, GLADYS MARION WATKINS, b. at Pittston, Pa., 22 Sept. 1887, dau. of Thomas Hamer and Elizabeth Atwater (Law).   Children, b. at New Haven: ||
| | I. | Charles<sup>19</sup>, b. 26 Feb. 1912; B.A. (Yale, 1935); Ph.D. (1938). |
| | II. | Elizabeth Atwater, b. 10 Feb. 1914. Studied at Rosemary Hall; Cours Maintenon, Cannes, France; and in Paris. Secretary and assistant sales manager of Studio House and in 1938 assistant director of Federal Art Project of Washington, D.C. |
| | III. | Sarah, b. 4 July 1920. Studied at Cours Maintenon, Cannes, France, and at the Westover School. Student in Vassar College in the class of 1942. |

**ELIZABETH DAY<sup>9</sup> (SEYMOUR) ANGEL** (1876--1942) at an early age
displayed an interest in and rare capacity for the study of the Greek language
and literature, obviously inherited from her father. She entered Bryn Mawr with
the class of 1897 and graduated with high honors. Her interest in Greek was such
that she completed the work for the M.A. during her senior year and took the
degree at the same time with the B.A. She had her father's capacity for industry
but lacked the physical stamina sufficient to work as hard as she wished. In
1905 she went out to Lake Erie College to teach classics. Her love for teaching
was ineradicable. Her younger brother early discovered that he could bribe her
to do anything he wanted merely by promising that he would let her help him in
the preparation of his Greek lesson. Her health proved unequal to more than two
years of this work. She continued her classical studies, travelled abroad, and
in Greece met the English sculptor, John Angel, whom she married in 1914. They
lived in England until after the War, when they moved to New York, where he was
commissioned by Ralph Adams Cram to undertake sculptures on the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine. When other commissions followed he became an American citizen
and they made their permanent home in New York. In all respects she resembled
her father more closely than the other children, not merely in her scholarly
instincts but in her pleasure in group gatherings. Nothing is more remarkable
than her capacity, having started from a strongly Puritan point of view, to mix
with the variegated artistic circles into which her married life threw her. She
writes of herself: "She always loved Greek language and literature, and got
constant pleasure from it. The only reason this could come in as a
characteristic point is that so far it represents the only classical inheritance
from N. P. Seymour and T. D. Seymour, and that it took the place with her of an
intense love of music in other members of the family."

John Angel is a sculptor of distinction. An Englishman by birth, he was educated
in Exeter, and in Lambeth and Royal Academy

Schools of Art, London. He won prizes and scholarships in the Royal Academy, and
finally, in 1912, the Gold Medal travelling scholarship, which gave him a year's
study in Greece, Italy, and France. Excepting the year 1912, he was assistant to
Sir George Frampton from 1908 to 1914.

//Work in England:// Exeter War Memorial; Bridgewater War Memorial; Rotherham,
Yorkshire, Memorial; Madonna for Pusey House College, Oxford; Madonna for St.
Mary's, Beverley; various statuettes now in Glasgow Academy of Fine Arts, in
Exeter Art Museum, and in private collections. Fellow of Royal Society of
British Sculptors, member of Art Workers' Guild, of St. John's Wood Arts Club,
etc.

He came to the United States, Nov. 1925, and March 1936 became an American
citizen. //Work in America:// In Cathedral of St. John the Divine, eight
statuettes in Baptistry; in North Tower portal, nine martyr saints, eight feet
high, each with pedestal on which is relief with scenes from the saint's life,
eight Sibyls, thirty angels; three tympana in high relief, representing the
Crucifixion, Christ before Pilate, and Christ bearing His cross; above the
portal, the large granite figure of Archangel Michael; in South Tower portal,
St. Paul for trumeau, an angel, three tympana representing the Nativity, the
Annunciation, and the Adoration of the Magi. In Princeton University, chapel,
tympanum of Majestas, west portal, and tympanum of Annunciation, north portal.
In Pittsburgh, East Liberty Presbyterian church, Last Supper, in marble, and
four saints. In St. Louis, Mo., Desloges Hospital chapel, panel of Crucifixion.
In St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., panel of Christ among the doctors, and
figure of St. Paul. Rice Institute, Texas, figure of William Marsh Rice.
Vincennes, Ind., George Rogers Clark Memorial, granite figure of Francis Vigo.
Chicago, Ill., twelve-foot figure of Alexander Hamilton.   Austin, Texas, figure
of Stephen F. Austin.

He received the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Columbia University, June 1936.
Member of the Century Club, the Architectural League, the Sculptors' Society,
Mediaeval Academy of America. Home, 468 Riverside Drive, New York City.

**CLARA (SEYMOUR)<sup>9</sup> ST. JOHN** (1880-- ), like her elder sister, went
through school and college with the highest honors. She graduated from Bryn Mawr
in 1900.   She did not have the intense love of the classics of her sister but
handled them, as she handled any intellectual subject, with rare ability. Her
mind was sharp and clear, she had uncanny rapidity of apprehension, and she
expressed herself in beautifully written English. Her Bryn Mawr professors said
that she could have become a first-rate scholar in any subject she chose.
Probably the most brilliant of any of the line of Charles Seymour of Hartford,
not excepting her father, T. D. Seymour, she would have made a first-rate
business executive or corporation lawyer. Instead she married George C. St. John
in 1906, and with him set out to build up The Choate School in Wallingford. Its
influence in the larger Eastern universities has become notable. In this process
Mrs. St. John has naturally remained in the background; but her influence with
the boys, with the faculty, and with the visiting parents is a matter of general
knowledge.

George Clair St. John was a native of Simsbury, Connecticut, the son of Edward
Francis St. John, a farmer, and Charlotte Elizabeth Cushman, and was born in the
house where his father and grandfather had also been born. He is a descendant of
Robert Cushman, who was business manager of the Mayflower Expedition, and of his
son, the Ruling Elder, Thomas Cushman, who lived in the home of Governor
Bradford, and his wife Mary Allerton, who lived to be the last survivor of the
Mayflower. He was graduated from the Hartford High School in 1898, and from
Harvard College in 1902. He taught English at the Hill School 1902-1903, the
Adirondack-Florida School in 1903-1907, the Hackley School in 1907-1908; and
since 1908 has been Headmaster of The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut.
He was ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church in 1926, and Priest in 1928;
received the honorary degree of M.A. from Williams College in 1933, and of LL.D.
from Pittsburgh University in 1933. He is a member of the National Institute of
Social Sciences, of the Harvard Club of Boston, the Graduate Club of New Haven,
and the Century Club of New York.

**CHARLES<sup>9</sup> SEYMOUR** (1885-- ), a native of New Haven, only son of
the Greek scholar and head of the Yale Classical Department, Thomas Day Seymour,
grandnephew of a president of Yale, and descendant of an earlier president,
Thomas Clap, was reared in an atmosphere of learning. He prepared for college at
Hillhouse High School, New Haven, and went from there to Kings College, Cam

bridge, England, from which he received the degree of B.A. in 1904 at the early
age of nineteen. He then entered Yale (B.A., 1908), where he rowed on his class
crew, was manager of the varsity crew, president of the City Government Club,
and a member, like his father and grandfather, of Alpha Delta Phi. He was a
member of Phi Beta Kappa and in senior year won the De Forest medal for oratory.

Following graduation Seymour travelled in Europe, studied history at the
Sorbonne in Paris and in 1909 received his M.A. degree from Cambridge
University. He returned to the Yale Graduate School to complete his historical
studies and in 1911 was given his Ph.D. Appointed instructor in history at Yale
in 1911, he was promoted to assistant professor in 1915 and professor in 1918.
Later he received the honorary degree of Litt.D. from Western Reserve and from
Columbia, and of LL.D. from Trinity, from Princeton, and from Harvard. In 1915
he published his first book, //Electoral Reform in England and Wales// and the
following year //The Diplomatic Background of the War.// He was married May 4,
1911 to Gladys Marion Watkins, daughter of Thomas H. Watkins of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, a well-known coal operator who had served on the Roosevelt Coal
Commission.

After American intervention in the world war Seymour was appointed to the House
//Inquiry,// to prepare studies for the peace conference and later appointed
special assistant in the Department of State. After the Armistice he accompanied
President Wilson to the conference as chief of the Austro-Hungarian Division of
the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Later he served as United States
delegate on the Rumanian and Jugoslav and the Czechoslovak Territorial
Commissions. In those capacities he came in close contact with European
diplomatists and political leaders. He returned at the end of the conference to
his professorship at Yale.

When in 1922 Colonel House presented his papers to Yale, Seymour was appointed
Curator of the collection and thereafter for fifteen years devoted himself to
the study of the foreign relations of the United States during the period of the
world war, although his undergraduate lectures and his graduate seminars dealt
with European diplomacy from 1871. In 1921 he published //Woodrow Wilson and the
World War// and edited //What Really Happened at Paris,// the latter in
collaboration with Colonel House. There followed //The Intimate Papers of
Colonel House,// 4 vols. (1926-28) ; //American Diplomacy during the World War//
(1933); and //American Neutrality, 1914-1917// (1935). He published also papers
and occasional articles on historical topics. An honorary fellow of King's
College, Cambridge, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he became a member of the board of
editors of the //American Historical Review// and an advisory editor of
//Foreign Affairs//. He is a member of the Century Club and an honorary member
of the Society of the Cincinnati. He is also a director of the Second National
Bank of New Haven.

In 1927 Seymour was appointed Provost of Yale University, in which position he
was especially interested in the development of the undergraduate colleges
established by the gift of Edward S. Harkness. Five years later he was appointed
first master of Berkeley CoUege. On the retirement of President Angell he
succeeded him, as fifteenth president of Yale, inaugurated October 8, 1937.

His son, //Charles Seymour// (1912-- ), born in New Haven and schooled at
Choate, was a student at King's College, Cambridge, for a year before entering
Yale in 1931. He became a member of Zeta Psi, chairman of the board of editors
of the //Literary Magazine//, president of Phi Beta Kappa, and was graduated,
like his great-grand-father Nathan, who was also on the Lit. board, second in
scholarship in his class. At Commencement he was awarded the Snow prize for
outstanding distinction in scholarship, personality, and character. Appointed to
a graduate travelling fellowship by Yale he spent the two following years in
study in Paris under the mediaevalists Focillon and Aubert. He published in the
//Gazette des Beaux Arts// and was commissioned by the French government to
write the official history of the cathedral of Noyon. In 1937 he became an
instructor in the history of art in the Yale School of Fine Arts. At the Yale
Commencement of 1938, he received the Ph.D. degree, conferred by his father.

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