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SEYMOUR, Thomas Day, educator, was born in Hudson, Ohio, April 1, 1848; son of Nathan Perkins (q.v.) and Elizabeth (Day) Seymour; grandson of Charles and Catharine (Perkins) Seymour and of the Hon. Thomas and Sarah (Coit) Day, and a descendant of Richard Seymour (who was in Hartford in 1639); of Robert Day (one ■of the original proprietors of Hartford, in 1636); of Governor William Bradford, Governor Thomas Dudley of the Plymouth colony, of John Haynes (first governor of Connecticut), and of many other notables of early New England. He was graduated from Western Reserve college, A.B., 1870. A.M., 1873; studied classical philology at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1870-72, and was professor of Greek in Western Reserve college, 1872-80. He was married, July 2, 1874, to Sarah Melissa, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Henry Law- rence and Clara (Ford) Hitchcock of Hudson, Ohio. He was Hillhouse professor of Greek at Yale from 1880, and senior -officer of the Greek department from 1884. He received the honorary degree of A.B. from Yale in 1870; that of LL.D. from Adalbert college, Western Reserve university, 1894, and from Glasgow university, Scotland, 1901, He was made honorary member of the Archaeological Society of Athens (Greece), 1895; and associate fel- low of the American Academy of Arts and Scien- ces, 1898. He became chairman of the managing committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, in 1887, and thus the •official representative of that institution in the United States until 1901; and was made vice- president of the American ArcliEeological Institute in 1897. He was co-editor of the " College Sei'ies of Greek Authors " from 1884, and American co- editor of the Classical Review from 1887. He also edited: Selected Odes of Pindar, zvith Notes (1882); Introduction to the La^iguage and Verse of Homer (1885): " Homer's Iliad," College Series (books I-VI, 1887-90; Homeric Vocabulary (ISSd); ■School Iliad (books I-VI, 1889, new ed., 1900); Introduction and Vocabulary to School Odyssey (8 books, 1897).

SEYMOUR, Thomas Henry, governor of Con- necticut, was born in Hartford, Conn., in 1808. He was a cousin of Horatio Seymour. He was graduated at the American Literary, Scientific and Military academy (now Norwich university) 1829; was made commanding officer of the Hart- ford Light Guard, 1829, and was admitted to the bar at Hartford in 1833. He was editor of The Jeffersonian, 1837-38; judge of probate for the district; and a representative in the 28th con- gress, 1843-45. He was commissioned major, 9th U.S. regulars, a regiment recruited in New Eng- land, and commanded by Col. T. B. Ransom (q.v.), which left Fort Adams, R.I., for Mexico in May, and landed at Vera Cruz, July, 1847. He IX. — .1

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succeeded Colonel Ransom, who was killed at the assault of Chapultepec, Sept. 13, 1847, in com- mand of the regiment, and leading tiie troops to the top of the heights was the first to enter the fort. He was also present at the capture of the City of Mexico. He was the defeated candidate for governor of Connecticut in 1849; was elected governor, 1850, 1851-52 and 1853, serving, 1851- 53. He was a Pierce and King presidential elector-at-large from Connecticut in 1852; U.S. minis- ter to Russia, 1853-57, and during the civil war he was leader of the Connecticut Peace Demo- crats, and on account of his sym- pathy with the south his portrait was removed from the state senate, feated for governor in 1803, by William Bucking- ham, his defeat being directly traceable to his opposition to the war measures of the govern- ment. He received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1844, and that of LL.D. in 1855 from Norwich university. He died in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 3, 1868.

SEYMOUR, Truman, soldier, was born in Burlington, Vt., Sept. 24, 1824; grandson of Moses and Mary (Marsh) Seymour. He was a student at Norwich university, 1840-42, under Capt. Alden Partridge, U.S.A., and was grad- uated from the U.S. Military academy as brevet 2d lieutenant, and was assigned to the 1st artil- lery, July 1, 1846; serving at Fort Pickens, Fla., and in the war with Mexico. He was com- missioned 2d lieutenant, March 3, 1847; was brevetted 1st lieutenant, April 18, 1847, for gal- lant and meritorious conduct at Cerro Gordo, and captain, Aug. 20, 1847, for Contreras and Churu- busco. He was present at the capture of the City of Mexico, Sept. 13-14, 1847, and was in garrison at Fort Hamilton, New York, 1848-49, and at Fort Columbus, 1849-50. He was assistant pro- fessor of drawing at the U.S. Military academy, 1850-53; in garrison at Fort Moultrie, S.C, 1853- 56; was engaged in the Seminole Indian war, 1856-58, and was promoted captain, Nov. 23, 1860. He was on garrison duty at Fort Moultrie, S.C, in 1860. and engaged in the defence of Fort Sumter, 1860-61, being present at its bombard- ment, April 13-14, 1861, and brevetted major, April 14, 1861, for the defence of Fort Sumter. He was transferred to the 5th artillerj-, May 14, 1861; was on regimental recruiting service, July 5-Sept. 24, 1861; was in charge of camp instruc- tion, Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 24-Nov. 30, 1861, and was chief of artillery in McCaU's division in the defence of Washington, D.C., in 1862. He was promoted brigaciier-general of U.S. volunteers, April 28, 1862, and commanded a brigade in the department of the Rappahannock, April 28-June