Seth, James
educator, author, was born in 1860, in Scotland. He is a professor of moral philosophy in Cornell university from 1896, and the author of A Study of Ethical Principles.
SETON, MRS. ELIZABETH ANN [BAYLEY], author, was born Aug. 28, 1774, in New York city. She was the founder and first superior of the order of Sisters of Charity in the United States.
After the death of her husband she became a Roman catholic, took the veil as a sister of charity in 1809, and in 1812 fcunded at Emmettsburg, Md., the first American house of the order. She was the author of a volume entitled Memoirs of Mrs. Seton, written by Herself: A Fragment of Real History, which was published in 1817. She died Jan. 4, 1821, in Emmettsburg, Md.