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Seward, George Frederick – Seymour, John

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.

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.

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.

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, Henry

merchant, state senator, was born May 30, 1780, in Litchfield, Conn. He served in both branches of the New York legislature, and was mayor of Utica, canal commissioner, and president of the Farmers' Loan and Trust company. He died Aug. 26, 1837, in Utica, N. Y.

Seymour, Henry William

manu-- facturer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1834 in Brockport, N. Y. In 1880 he was elected to the Michigan state house of representatives from the Cheboygan district; was elected state senator in 1882 from the thirtieth district; and in 1886 was re-elected from the same district. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.

Seymour, Horatio

lawyer, state senator, was born May 31, 1778, in Litchfield, Conn. He was a judge of probate and a member of the council of Vermont.

He was a senator in congress from Vermont from 1821 to 1833.

Seymour, John

governor. In 1703 he was appointed governor of Maryland serving until 1709. He died July 30, 1709.

SEYMOUR, MRS. MARY (HARRISON), author, was born Sept. 7, 1835, in Oxford, Conn. She is a writer of Hartford whose writings are mainly for juvenile readers.

Among them are, Mollie's Christmas Stocking; Sunshine and Starlight; Recompense; Through the Darkness; and Ned, Nellie, and Amy.