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* SEYMOUR. 31 SEYMOUR. SEYMOUR, se'mOr. A city in Jackson County, Ind., 60 miles south of Indianapolis, on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwester!!, the Pitts- burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis, and the Southern Indiana railroads (Map: Indiana, D 4). It is of considerable industrial impor- tance, having woolen mills, a hub and spoke fac- tory, flouring mills, planing and saw mills, and manufactories of furniture, brooms, sucker rods, harness, and advertising novelties. Repair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern also are here. There is a public library. Seymour was settled in IS52, and was incorporated in 1805. Population, in 1890, 5337; in 1900, 6445. SEYMOUR. A noble English family of Nor- man descent, originally settled at Saint-Maur in Xormandy. In 1497 the head of the family. Sir .Tohn Seymour, was employed in suppressing the insurrection of Lord Audley and the Cornish rebels, and subsequently accompanied King Henry VIII. on his wars in France, and to the Field of the Cloth of C^old. One of his daughters. Lady Jane, became th? wife of Henry VIII., and mother of Edward VI. His fourth son, Thomas, rapidly rose into favor. He was sent on impor- tant missions, given command of a portion of the fleet, made a Pri-y Councilor, and after Henry VIII.'s death, according to the wish of the mon- arch, was created Baron Seymour of Sudeley and Lord High Admiral. He then endeavored to win the hand of Elizabeth, but, failing in his at- tempt, he secretlj' married Henry's widow, Catha- rine Parr. A rivalry at once sprang up between him and his eldest brother. Edward, the Lord Pro- tector Somerset, whom he wished to supplant. His machinations at length gave color to a charge of treason brought against him by the council; a bill of attainder was passed by the Lords and Seymour was executed JIarch 20, 1549. His brother, Edward, who held many high positions in the Court of Henry, was created Viscount Beauchamp of Hache in 1536, and Duke of Som- erset in 1546-47. He secured the confidence of the King so far that he was left by him one of his executors and one of the council of the young Prince Edward. He was subsequently made Lord High Treasurer, and eventually 'Protector and Governor of the King and his realms.' ( See Edward VI.) His fall, after a two years' ten- ure of power, was followed by an attainder of his honors. A son of the Protector by his second marriage was created by Elizabeth Earl of Hertford. The grandson of the latter William, who succeeded him in the Earldom of Hertford, was also sent to the Tower of Loudon for marry- ing Lady Arabella Stuart (q.v.), cousin of James I. of England, but subsequently played a conspicuous part in the royal cause in the civil wars and obtained in ]iis own favor a reversal of his ancestor's attainder. His ducal title passed to a cousin, on whose death it was inherited by Charles Seymour, known in history as the 'proud Duke of Somerset,' a nobleman who filled several high posts in the courts of Charles II.. William III., and Anne. SEYMOUR, Edward Hobart. Sir (1840—). An English naval officer. He was educated at Eadley, and entered the navy in 1852. He served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. io the war with China (1857-60), was wounded while .serving in West Africa in 1870, and was captain of the Iris in the Egyptian War of 1882. He was advanced to the rank of rear-admiral in 1889, and to that of vice-admiral in 1895. In 1898 he was put in connnand of the C'liina sta- tion, and took an active part in the Boxer War of 1900. In June of that year he led an expedition from Tien-tsin for the relief of the foreigners besieged in Peking, but was opposed by such overwhelming forces that he was obliged to re- turn without cft'ecting his purpose. As a reward for his services in this war he received the K. C. B. SEYMOUR, Frederick Beauchamp Paget, Baron Alcester. See Alcester. SEYMOUR, George Franklin ( 1829— ). An American Episcopalian bishop. He was born in New York City; was educated at Columbia and at the C4eneral Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained priest in 1855. Soon afterwards he founded Saint Stephen's College, Annandale, and was its warden until 1861. Be- sides several parochial charges, he held the pro- fessorship of ecclesiastical history at the General Theological Seminary from 1805 to 1879. In 1874 he was elected Bishop of Illinois, but in the bitterness of theological controversy- at that time, failed of confirmation. In 1878, however, he was elected first Bishop of Springfield, a diocese formed out of that of Illinois, and consecrated without opposition. He was known throughout the Lnited States as an accomplished theologian and an acute and forcible controversialist. An example of his work in the latter department is What is Modern Romanismf (1888). SEYMOUR, H0E.VT10 (181086). An Ameri- can political leader, the son of Henry Seymour, a colleague and supporter of De Witt Clinton. He was Ijorn at Pompey Hill, Onondaga Comity. N. Y., was educated at Geneva Academy (later Hobart College) and at Middletown (Conn.) Military Academy, studied law at Utica, and in 1832 was admitted to the bar. In 1841. as chair- man of the Canal Committee in the State Legis- lature, he prepared an elaborate report, which served for many years as the basis of all legis- lation in connection with the State ca,nals. In 1842-46 he was Mayor of L'tica, and iii 1852 he was elected C4overnor of Xe'w York. The period of his Governorship was marked by bitter factional strife within the party, and by a powerful tem- perance movement which, in the end, resulted in his defeat for reelection. The State Legislature passed a prohibition law which he vetoed, and in 1854 he was defeated for reelection by Myron H. Clark, the Whig and Temperance candidate. The identical law which was again passed was sub- sequently held to be unconstitutional. When the election of Lincoln made civil war seem in- evitable he exerted every effort to effect a com- promise, but eventually gave his support to the Lincoln Administration. In 1862 he w-as again elected Governor of Xew York. He advocated the vigorous prosecution of the war. but protested against the extensive use of the war powers by President Lincoln. He was unremitting in his endeavors to keep New York's full quota of troops in the field. His attitude in regard to the draft riots in New Y'ork City in the middle of July, 1803, was the cause of much harsh criticism at the time, but his measures proved efficacious, and within a year a Republican Legislature had passed resolu- tions thanking him lor his action. In 1808 he