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 ====== 253. Hon. Henry William Seymour ======
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+. 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.
+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 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'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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