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branch of that road. He was a member of the personal staff of Governor Parker. l!S73; state sen- ator, 1873-^1; president of the senate, 1876, 1879 and 1880: commanded the 2d brigade. National Guard, State of New Jersey; and was national commissioner of New Jersey for the World's Co- lumbian exiHisition. 1893. In 1881 he defeated George M. Robeson for U.S. senator and served for the term expiring. March 3, 1887, and was re- elected in 1895, and on Jan. L'3, 1901, his third term to expire. March 3. 1907. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1876- 1900. inclusive, and was appointed major-general of volunteers by President McKinley in 1898, for service in the war with Spain, but upon the unan- imous petition of the Republican members of the U.S. senate. President McKinley requested him not to take the field. His sons, Lieutenant Robert and Captain William Joyce, were officers in the volunteer army. Senator Sewell was ap- pointed chairman of the committee on engrossed bills and a member of the appropiiations, mili- tary affairs, territories, interoceanic canal and immigration committees. He died at Camden, N.J.. Dec. 27. 1901.

SEYBERT, Adam, chemist, was born in Phil- adelpliia. Pa., May 16, 1773. He completed the medical course at the University of Pennsylva- nia in 1793, then studied in Paris, at the Ecole des Mines, and at the Uni%'ersities of London, Edinburgh and Gottingen. After his return to Philadelphia, he engaged in business as chemist and mineralogist. He was a Democratic repve- Bentative from Philadelphia in the 11th, 12th, 13th and l")th congress, 1809-15 and 1815-19. He made several bequests to charitable institutions in Phil- adelphia. He contributed the following note- worthy articles to tl>e Tra7isactio7is of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society, of which organization he was elected a member in 1797; " Experiments and Observations on Land and Sea Air" and " On the Atmosphere of Marshes "' (1797); and prepared Statistic Annals of the United States (1789- 1818). He died in Paris, France, May 2, 1825.

SEYMOUR, Augustus Sherrill, juri.st, was born in Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1836. He was grad- uated from Hamilton college, LL.B., 1857, and pratised law in New York city, 1859-65, and in New Berne. N.C., 1865-68. In the latter year he w;is appointed judge of the municipal court of New Berne. He .served in the senate and house of representatives of North Caro- lina, and was a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state in 1871. He was judge of the North Carolina sui)erior court, 1874-82, and of the U.S. district court of eastern North Caro- lina. 1SS2-97. He compiled a Digest of the Laws of Xorth Carolina (I'tilS). He died in New York city, Feb. 19, 1897.

SEYMOUR, George Franklin, first bishop of Spriiiglield and 121st in succession in the Ameri- can epi.scopate, was born in New York city, Jan. 5, 1829; son of Isaac Newton and Elvira (Belknap) Seymour; grandson of Jesse (M.D.) and Mary (Watson) Seymour and of Chancey and Margaret (Karskad- den) Belknaj), and a

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liis brother emigrated from Wiltshire, Eng- land, to Hartfon Conn., and ultimately settled in New Hart- ford, Conn., about 1640. His father was treasurer of the Delaware and Hud- son Canal company, 1825-69, and enjoyed an annuity of $2000 and office desk room from the company after 1869 up to the time of his death in 1873. George Franklin Seymour at- tended a madam's school, Greenwich village academy, the grammar school of Columbia col- lege and was graduated at Columbia, A.B., 1850 (i-eceiving the general testimonial as head of liis class and delivering the Greek Salutatory), A.M., 1853, and from the General Theological seminary, New York, 1854. He was admitted to the diac- onate in December, 1854, and advanced to the priesthood in September, 1855; was rector of Holy Innocents', Annandale, N.Y., 1854-61, and during his rectorship, housed the one hundred communicants, whom he had gathered together, in a beautiful stone church. When fault was found for his extravagance in erecting the church, he caused to be emblazoned in illuminated letters on its western wall: " The palace is not for man but for the Lord God." 1 Chron. xxix. i. He also founded St. Stephen's college as a training .school for the ministry, and was its first rector, 1854-61, and graduated its first class of three in 1861. He resigned in 1861 to become rector of St. Mary's, Mahattanville, N.Y., and at the in- stance of Bishop Horatio Potter was transferred in 1862 to Clirist church, Hudson, N.Y., and in 1863 to St. John's, Brooklyn, N.Y. He assumed the chair of ecclesiastical history in the General Theological seminary, New York city, in October, 1865, and filled both positions until Epiphany, 1867, when he resigned the rectorship of St. John's, having conciliated quarreling factions into a peaceful congregation of over five hundred com- municants and paid off the entire floating delit of the church. lie held his chair, 1865-79, and served as the second dean of the seminary, 1875-