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Secor, Eugene – Seerley, John J

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, 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.

Seerley, Homer H

statesman. He is prominently identified with the educational and public interests of Cedar Falls, Iowa; and has filled several positions of honor in his city, county and state.

Seerley, John J

lawyer, congressman, was born March 13, 1852, in Toulon, Ill. He was city solicitor of Burlington, Iowa, for six years; was the candidate of the democratic party for congress in 1888; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.