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SEYMOUR

79, being successor to the Rev. Dr. John Murray Forbes, the first dean, 1869-72, and immediate predecessor of the Very Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, third dean, 1879-1903. He was chap- lain of the House of Mercy in charge of the Sisters of St. Mary, 1867-79; and superintendent of the Society for Promoting Religion and Learn- ing in the State of New Y'ork, for several years. He was unanimously elected in December, 1877, bishop of the newly erected diocese of Springfield and his election was apjiroved, but he declined to leave the seminary. He was elected again in May, 1878, and accepted, being consecrated in Trinity church, New Y^ork city, June 11, 1878, by Bishops Potter, Southgate and Odenlieimer, assisted by Bishops Lay, Quintard, Clarkson, Neely, Scarborough and McLaren and Bisliop Harper of Christ church, New England. His jurisdiction was at the time a distinctly mis- sionary region with few churches, and no endow- ments or institutions of any kind. His person- ality soon made itself manifest in new churches, missions and schools, and in July, 1893, he was given an assistant in the person of the Rt. Rev. Charles Reuben Hale (q.v.), who was officially known as Bishop of Cairo, and who died, Dec. 35, 1900. Bishop Seymour was married, July 23, 1869, to Harriet Atwood (Downe) Aymar, a member of the well known family of Wentworth (q.v.) of New Hampshire. He received the lion- oary degree of D.D. from Racine in 1867; LL.D. from Columbia in 1878. In 1903, at the general convention held in San Francisco, Bishop Sey- mour welcomed eighteen bishops to whom he had taught ecclesiastical history in the General Theological seminary. He is the author of: Some Considerations ^VJiy the Name of the Protestant Episcopal Church Shoiikl be Changed (1888); What is Modern Romanism? (1885); Amiisemeiits in their Relation to Religion (1890); An Open Letter to Bishop Doane in Reference to the Consecration of Bishop Brooks (1893^; Marriage and Divorce (1893); Sermon at the Consecration of Bishop Gai- lor (1895); The Church Idea of the Family (1899); The Teaching of the date Anno Domini used by the \Vliole Civilized World, and lectures, sermons and addresses, besides contributions to period- icals on current topics affecting the ritual or policy of the church.

SEYMOUR, Horatio, senator, was born in Litchfield, Conn., May 31, 1778; son of Moses and Mary (Marsh) Seymour; grandson of Moses Sey- mour and a descendant of Richard Seymour, who settled in Hartford in 1635. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1797, A.M., 1800; taught school at Cheshire, Conn., 1797-98; studied at the Litch- field Law school and under Daniel Chipman, at Middlebury, Vt., in 1799; was admitted to the bar in 1800; was postmaster of Middlebury, 1 800-

09; a member of the state council, 1809-14; state's attorney for Addison county, 1810-13, and 1815-19; was elected to the U.S. senate as a Clay Democrat in 1831; and was re-elected in 1827 serving till March 4, 1833. He was the unsuc- cessful Whig candidate for governor of Vermont in 1836; and was judge of the probate court of the state, 1847-56. He was a director of the Vermont state bank, and a trustee of Middlebury college, 1810-55. He was married in 1800 to Lucy, daughter of Jonah Case, of Addison, Vt. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Middlebury in 1811, and that of LL.D. by Y^ale in 1847. He died in Middlebury, Vt.. Nov. 21, 1857. SEYMOUR, Horatio, statesman, was born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga county, N.Y., May 31, 1810; son of Henry and Mary LedyarJ ', For man) Seymour; grandson of Maj. Moses and Molly (Marsh) Seymour of Litchfield, Conn., and a descendant of Rich- ard Seymour, the im- migrant, who came from Berry Pomeroy in England, and set- tled in Hartford, Conn., in 1636. His grandfather, Maj. Moses Seymour (1743- 1836), an officer in the Patriot army, was in the battles of Be- mis Heights and Saratoga and was present at the surren- der of Burgoyne. He subsequently acted as assistant quartermaster-general for six years; served for several years in the Connecticut legis- lature, and was one of the originators of the scheme to sell the Western Reserve and to de- vote the proceeds to the promotion of education, a movement that ended in the establishment of the Connecticut School Fund. His father, Hen- ry Seymour (1780-1837), was a wealthy mer- chant, mayor of Utica, and a member of the state assembly. He was appointed canal com- missioner, and with De Witt Clinton was engag- ed in the construction of the Erie canal. Hora- tio attended Oxford academy and Geneva (now Hobart) college, 1834-35, and was graduated from the American Literary, Scientific and Military academy (now Norwich university) in 1828. He studied law with Greene C. Bronson and Samuel Beardsley at Utica, N.Y., and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1832. He was married, May 31, 1835, to Mary, daughter of John R. and Hetty Bailey (Linn) Bleeker of Albany, and devoted liimself to the management of his large estate. He was military secretary of Gov. William L.