Seay, William A – Seelye, Lauremus Clark
Seay, William A
lawyer, jurist, educator, state legislator, was born April 19, 1831, near Burkeville, Va. He was a professor in the Louisiana State Military school; was an engineer officer in the confederate army under General Price; and received a majority of the votes cast for judge of the district court in 1872, but the returning board decided that he was not elected. He was elected a representative to the Louisiana legislature in 1881, and again in 1884. In 1884 he was appointed commissioner to revise the statute laws of the state; and in 1885 was appointed United States minister to Bolivia.
Sebastian, William King
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1814 in Vernon, Tenn. He was appointed prosecuting attorney, and held the office until 1837. He was circuit judge from 1840 to 1842; and in the latter year was appointed a state supreme judge. He was a state senator, and president of the state senate in 1846; and was a presidential elector in 1848. He was a United States senator from Arkansas from 1847 to 1853; and was re-elected for the term ending in 1859, and, in the latter year, was reelected for a term of six years. He was expelled for disloyalty in 1861. He died May 20, 1865, in Memphis, Tenn.
Seccomb, John
clergyman, author, was born April 25, 1708, in Medford, Mass.
He was a congregational minister at Harvard, Mass., in 1733-57, and after 1763 at Chester, Nova Scotia. He was the author of Father Abbey's Will, a once extremely popular piece of doggerel, which was followed by The Letter to the Widow Abbey, He died in January, 1793, in Nova Scotia.
Seccomb, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born in 1706 in Medford, Mass. He was a congregational minister at Kingston, N. H., from 1737, and author of A Plain and Brief Rehearsal of the Operations of Christ as God. He died in 1760.
Secor, Eugene
banker, poet, was born in 1841 in Peekskill, N. Y. He was chosen the first mayor of Forest City, Iowa, and re-elected three consecutive times. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Seddon, James Alexander
lawyer, congressman, was born July 13, 1815, in Falmouth, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847, and again from 1849 to 1851. He was a member of the confederate government as a representative in congress in 1861, having previously been delegate to the peace congress of that year. In 1862 he became the confedera ate secretary of war. He died Aug. 19, 1880, in Virginia.
Sedgwick, Arthur George
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 6, 1844, in New York city. He is a lawyer of New York city; and the author of Principles and Practices Governing the Trial of Title to Land; and Elements of Damages.
Sedgwick, C. B
lawyer, congressman, was born in March, 1815, in Pompey, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1863 he was appointed a commissioner to look after certain naval affairs.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
author, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in Stockbridge, Mass. She was a once famous novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary women. She was the author of Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveler; Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; and Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; and Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, Mass., her native town. She died July 31, 1867, near Roxbury, Mass.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Elizabeth Buck-
MINSTER [DWIGHT], author, was born in 1791 in Massachusetts. She was a teacher for many years; and the author of Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My Pupils; and Stories of the Spanish Conquest. She died in 1864.
Sedgwick, John
soldier, was born Sept. 13, 1813, in Cornwall, Conn. In 1837 he graduated from the United States Military academy at West Point; was appointed second lieutenant, and was first engaged in the Seminole war. In 1846 he entered the Mexican war as first lieutenant of artillery; and for his gallantry received the brevets of captain and of major. In 1862 he was made colonel of the first regular cavalry; was commissioned brigadier-general of the United States volunteers; and subsequently became major-general. He was killed in 1864 by a bullet from a sharp-shooter. A monument was erected to his memory in 1868 upon the grounds of the United States Military academy at West Point.
Sedgwick, Mrs. Susan Living-
STON [RIDLEY], author, was born about 1789. She was a writer for young people; and the author of Walter Thornley; The Morals of Pleasure; The Young Emigrants; Allen Prescott; and Alida, or Town and Country. She died in 1867.
Sedgwick, Theodore
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1746, in Hartford, Conn. He was a zealous patriot in the revolutionary war; was a member of the provincial congress in 1785 and 1786; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts, after the adoption of the constitution, from 1789 to 1796. He was a senator of the United States from 1796 to 1798. In 1799 he was again a member of the house, and was chosen speaker. From 1802 until his death he was a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. He died Jan. 24, 1813, in Boston, Mass.
Sedgwick, Theodore
lawyer, author, was born Dec. 31, 1780, in Sheffield, Mass. He was a lawyer of Albany, and from 1819 a resident of Stockbridge, Mass., and the author of Public and Private Economy; and Hints to My Countrymen.
He died Nov. 7, 1839, in Pittsfield, Mass.
Sedgwick, Theodore
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1811, in Albany, N. Y. He was a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Rules which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Court Law; and Treatise on the Measure of Damages, a work of much importance. He died Dec. 9, 1859, in Stockbridge, Mass.
Sedley, Henry
journalist, author, was born April 4, 1835, in Boston, Mass.
He engaged in journalism, was one of the editors of the New York Times and the Evening Post, and for some time was an editor of the Commercial Advertiser. He is the author of Dangerfield's Rest, a Romance; and Marion Rooke, or the Quest for Fortune.
Sedley, William Henry
actor, was born Dec. 4, 1806, in Wales. His first appearance in New York was at the old Chatham street theater in 1840, when he acted Edgar to the Lear of Junius Brutus Booth. He also appeared acceptably as Laertes, Gratiano, and Marc Antony. His last professional appearance in New York was made at the Winter garden in 1865.
He died Jan. 17, 1872, in San Francisco, Cal.
Seeley, Elias P
governor. He was governor of New Jersey for a part of the year 1833.
Seeley, John E
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1810, in Ovid, N. Y. He was elected county judge and surrogate in 1851, and served four years; and was a presidential elector in 1860 and also in 1864. He was elected a representative from New York to the fortysecond congress.
Seely, Edward Howard
author, was born in 1856, in New York. He was a writer of New York city, and the author of A Lone Star Bo-peep, and Other Tales of Texan Ranch Life; A Ranchman's Stories; A Nymph of the West: The Jonah of Lucky Valley, and Other Stories; and A Border Leander. He died in 1894. [EG-
Seelye, Mrs. Elizabeth
GLESTON], author, was born in 1858, in Minnesota. She is a writer living at Lake George, N. Y., and the author of The Story of Columbus; Montezuma; Brandt and Red Jacket; Pocahontas; Tecumseh (with E. Eggleston); and The Story of Washington.
Seelye, Julius Hawtry
clergyman, college president, congressman, author, was born Sept. 14, 1824, in Bethel, Conn. He was ordained pastor of the Dutch reformed church in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1853, and remained there until appointed professor at Amherst college in 1858; and was its president during 1876- 90. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortyfourth congress. He was the author of Natural Religion; The Way, the Truth, and the Life; Christian Missions; and Duty. He died in 1895.
Seelye, Lauremus Clark
clergyman, college president, was born Sept. 20, 1837, in Bethel, Conn. For eight years this eminent clergyman was professor of English literature and rhetoric in Amherst college; and since 1873 has been president of the Smith College for Women of Northampton, Mass.
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