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Seymour, David L

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1802 in Connecticut. In 1836 he was a member of the New York state legislature; and was a master in chancery. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1845, and from 1851 to 1853. He died Oct. 11, 1867, in Lanesborough, Mass.

SEYMOUR, EDWARD WOODRUFF, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 30, 1832, in Litchfield, Conn.

He was a representative in the Connecticut state legislature in 1859, 1860, 1870, and 1871. In 1875 he moved to Bridgeport; and in 1876 was a state senator. He was elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. SEYMOUR, GEORGE FRANKLIN, clergyman, bishop, author, was born Jan. 5, 1829, in New York city. He was the founder of St. Stephen's college of Annandale, N. Y. For many years he was dean and professor of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological seminary, New York; he is the bishop of Springfield, Ill., to which high office he has been elected three times. He is the author of Modern Romanism Not Catholicity.

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