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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.

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