Seward, Clarence Armstrong – Seymour, Charles W
Seward, Clarence Armstrong
lawyer, was born Oct. 7, 1828, in New York city. He was judge-advocate-general of the state of New York in 1856-60. After the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward and his son, Frederick W., he was appointed acting assistant secretary of state.
Seward, Frederick A
lawyer, state legislator, was born in New York.
He was for several years an assistant secretary of the state department; in 1866 was commissioned to negotiate for the cession of Samana Bay; and was subsequently elected to the legislature of New York.
Seward, Frederick William
journalist, lawyer, author, was born July 8, 1830, in Auburn, N. Y. He was associate editor of the Albany Evening Journal till 1861, when he was appointed assistant secretary of state, which office he held for the eight years that his father was secretary. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1875. He assistant secretary of state again in 1877- 81. His principal publication is the Life and Letters of his father. was
Seward, George Frederick
diplomat, author, was born Nov. 8, 1840, in Florida, N. Y. He was a nephew of W. H Seward, and minister to China in 1876-80 He was the author of Chinese Immigration in Its Social and Economical Aspects.
Seward, James L
lawyer, congress- In 1836 he was elected to the man.
Georgia state legislature, serving several years. He entered congress in 1853, as a representative from Georgia, and continued there to the close of the thirty-fifth congress.
Seward, Theodore Freling- Huysen
editor, author, was born Jan. 25, 1897, in Florida, N. Y. He received his education in the Seward institute of his native city; at the Normal Musical institute of New York city; and in London, England. He was for many years the editor of the New York Musical Gazette, and the Musical Reform; and for many years was professor of Music Teacher's college of New York city. He is the author of The School of Life; Heaven Every Day; and of many music books for church and social use. He was the founder of the Brotherhood of Christian Unity, of East Orange, N. J.; and is still its manager.
Seward, William Henry
lawyer, state senator, author, was born May 16, 1801, in Florida, N. Y. In 1830 he was elected to the state senate for four years.
In 1834 he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of the state; in 1838 renominated and was elected for two years; and was re-elected for two years. In 1849 he was chosen a senator in congress from New York for six was years; and was re-elected in 1855, and held the position until he became secretary of state, under President Lincoln, in 1861. In 1849 published the Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams; and his own life and collected speeches were published in four volumes, between 1853 and 1862. He was also the author of Orations and Speeches; Diplomatic History of the Civil War; and Travels Around the World. He died Oct. 10, 1872, in Auburn, N. Y.
Sewell, David
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 7, 1735, in York, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature; was chosen councilor; and in 1777 was appointed a justice of the superior court. From 1789 to 1818 he was judge of the United States district court of Maine. He died Oct. 22, 1825, in York, Maine.
Sewell, James
congressman. He was a representative from Maryland in the third session of the twenty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy.
Sewell, William Joyce
soldier, United States senator, was born Dec. 6, 1835, in Ireland. He served in the merchant marine for a few years; then went to Chicago, Ill., and engaged in business.
He entered the union army in 1861 as a captain, and was mustered out of service at the close of the war as a brevet major - general. He served in the state senate of New Jersey nine years, three years as president of the senate. He was a delegate to all the republican national conventions from 1876 to 1896; and was elected a senator of the United States from New Jersey for the term of six years from March 4, 1881; and was reelected in 1895 for term expiring in 1901.
Sexton, Henry D
financier, was born Nov. 18, 1854, in East St. Louis, Ill.
He has been a successful real estate dealer, financier, and insurance broker of East St. Louis, Ill. He is now vice-president of the Workingmen's Banking company; president of the Second Mutual Loan association; president of the State Savings and Loan association; vice-president of the East St. Louis Electric Street Railroad company; secretary and treasurer of the Citizens' Electric Light and Power company; and president of the Main Street Safe Deposit company. He is also prominent in various other business enterprises, and takes an active part in public affairs. dier;
Sexton, James A
soldier, manufacturer, was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Chicago, Ill. In 1861 he enlisted as a private solwas commissioned a first lieutenant; and participated in nearly all the campaigns of the army of the Tennessee. After the war he remained two years in Alabama; and in 1867 returned to Chicago and founded the firm of J. A. and T. S. Sexton, which after the Chicago fire was succeeded by Cribben, Sexton and Company. This firm is still in the business as manufacturers of stoves, hollow-ware, and plumbers' supplies, and has become widely known throughout the United States. During 1889-93 he was postmaster of Chicago. He has been a presidential elector; a colonel in the Illinois national guard; and has held various other positions of honor in his native state. In 1898 he became grand commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Sexton, Leonidas
lawyer, congress-- man, was born May 19, 1827, in Rushville, Ind. He was a representative in the Indiana state legislature in 1856; lieutenant-governor from 1873 to 1877; and was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Sexton, Pliny T
lawyer, banker, was born June 12, 1840, in Palmyra, N. Y.
He is president of the First National bank of Palmyra, of which city he was president for four years. He has been president of the board of education for six years; and in 1890 was elected regent of the university of the state of New York, which is a life position.
Seybert, Adam
chemist, congressman, author, was born May 16, 1773, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia chemist; and a member of congress from 1809 to 1815, and again from 1817 to 1819.
He was the author of The Statistical Annals of the United States, 1789-1818. It was in a notice of this book for The Edinburgh Review that Sydney Smith made the famous query, Who reads an American book? He died May 2, 1825, in Paris, France.
Seyffarth, Gustavus
scientist, educator, author, was born July 13, 1796, in Saxony. He was a German scientist who was professor of oriental archæology at Leipzig university in 1825-55, and, com-- ing to America in the latter year, was professor at Concordia seminary in St.
Louis in 1855-71. The remainder of his life was passed in New York city. Among his voluminous writings are, Rudimenta Hieroglyphica; Grammatica Ægyptiaca; and Egyptian Theology according to a Paris Mummy Coffin. He died Nov. 17, 1885, in New York city.
Seymour, Augustus Sherrill
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Nov. 30, 1836, in Ithaca, N. Y. He moved to Newberne, N. C., and was appointed criminal judge of that city in 1868. He was a representative in the state legislature from 1868 to 1870; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1871; and state senator from 1872 to 1874.
He was judge of the state superior court from 1874 to 1882; and in 1882 became United States district judge.
Seymour, Charles B
journalist, author, was born in 1829 in England. In 1849 he became connected with the New York Times, serving as musical and dramatic editor until his death. He was correspondent for the Times at the Paris exposition of 1867, where his services as one of the American commission procured him a medal from the emperor. He was the author of Self-Made Men. He died May 2, 1869, in New York city. re-
Seymour, Charles W
lawyer, legislator, was born June 4, 1838, in Hartford, Ohio. In 1860 he graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university, and ceived the degrees of A. B. and A. M. During 1862-64 he served with distinction as a member of the Nebraska legislature.
During the civil war he served in the union army. For twenty-five years he has been master in chancery, and United States commissioner for the same number of years. He is one of the leading lawyers of the west in Nebraska City; has been city attorney for eight years; chairman of the republican state central committee; a thirty-second degree member of the Knight Templars; and has filled various high offices in masonry and other fraternal orders.