SEYMOUR
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.
