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Samuel Swayze Seward (1768-1849) —
also known as Samuel S. Seward —
of Orange
County, N.Y.
Born December
5, 1768.
Physician;
member of New York
state assembly from Orange County, 1803-04.
Died August
24, 1849 (age 80 years, 262
days).
Burial location unknown.
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William Henry Seward (1801-1872) —
also known as William H. Seward —
of Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., May 16,
1801.
Lawyer;
co-founded (with Thurlow
Weed), the Albany Evening Journal newspaper
in 1830; member of New York
state senate 7th District, 1831-34; Governor of
New York, 1839-43; defeated (Whig), 1834; U.S.
Senator from New York, 1849-61; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1856,
1860;
U.S.
Secretary of State, 1861-69; as Secretary of State in 1867, he
made a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska; critics dubbed
the territory "Seward's Folly".
Survived an assassination
attempt on April 14, 1865 (the same night Abraham
Lincoln was shot), when Lewis Payne, an associate of John Wilkes
Booth, broke into his bedroom and stabbed him repeatedly. Payne was
arrested, tried with the other conspirators, and hanged.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., October
16, 1872 (age 71 years, 153
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.; statue at Madison
Square Park, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Volunteer
Park, Seattle, Wash.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel
Swayze Seward and Mary (Jennings) Seward; married to Frances
Adeline Miller; father of Frederick
William Seward and William
Henry Seward Jr.; uncle of Caroline Cornelia Canfield (who
married John
Lawrence Schoolcraft) and George
Frederick Seward; granduncle of Frederick
Whittlesey Seward Jr.. |
| | Political family: Seward
family of New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | Cross-reference: George
W. Jones — Samuel
J. Barrows — Frederick
W. Seward — Elias
P. Pellet |
| | Seward counties in Kan. and Neb. are
named for him. |
| | Seward Mountain,
in the Adirondack Mountains, Franklin
County, New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Seward,
Nebraska, is named for
him. — The town
of Seward,
New York, is named for
him. — The city
of Seward,
Alaska, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(300 acres on a forested peninsula, established 1911), in Seattle,
Washington, is named for
him. — Seward Park
(three acres on East Broadway, opened 1903), in Manhattan,
New York, is named for
him. |
| | Other politicians named for him: W.
Seward Whittlesey
— W.
H. Seward Thomson
— William
S. Shanahan
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| | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the $50 U.S. Treasury note in the 1890s.
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| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | Books about William H. Seward: Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Team
of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln —
Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Walter Stahr, Seward:
Lincoln's Indispensable Man — Michael Burgan, William
Henry Seward : Senator and Statesman (for young
readers) |
| | Image source: New York Public
Library |
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John Lawrence Schoolcraft (1804-1860) —
also known as John L. Schoolcraft —
of Albany, Albany
County, N.Y.
Born in Guilderland, Albany
County, N.Y., September
22, 1804.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 13th District, 1849-53; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1856,
1860.
Died in St. Catherines, Ontario,
July
7, 1860 (age 55 years, 289
days).
Interment at Albany
Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.
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Orlando Kellogg (1809-1865) —
of Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., June 18,
1809.
Carpenter;
lawyer;
Essex
County Surrogate, 1840-44; U.S.
Representative from New York, 1847-49, 1863-65 (14th District
1847-49, 16th District 1863-65); died in office 1865; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1860.
Died in Elizabethtown, Essex
County, N.Y., August
24, 1865 (age 56 years, 67
days).
Interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Elizabethtown, N.Y.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Rowland Kellogg and Sarah (Titus) Kellogg; married 1837 to Polly
Woodruff; father of Rowland
Case Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Frank
Billings Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842); second cousin thrice removed of Aaron
Kellogg; third cousin of William
Dean Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Alvan
Kellogg, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg and Alphonso
Alva Hopkins; third cousin twice removed of Jason
Kellogg, Orsamus
Cook Merrill, Timothy
Merrill and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel
Swayze Seward; fourth cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger, Silas
Dewey Kellogg, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, John
Russell Kellogg, Laman
Ingersoll, Thomas
Belden Butler, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Farrand
Fassett Merrill and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903). |
| | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page |
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Frederick William Seward (1830-1915) —
also known as Frederick W. Seward —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Montrose, Westchester
County, N.Y.
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., July 8,
1830.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1861-65, 1877-79; on April 14,
1865, the same evening that Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated, Lewis Powell, a co-conspirator of John
Wilkes Booth, came to the Seward home intending to kill his father,
Secretary of State William
H. Seward; Frederick, trying to block Powell, was attacked
and suffered a skull fracture; member of New York
state assembly from New York County 7th District, 1875; candidate
for secretary
of state of New York, 1875.
Died April
25, 1915 (age 84 years, 291
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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William Henry Seward Jr. (1839-1920) —
also known as William H. Seward, Jr. —
Born in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., June 18,
1839.
Republican. Banker;
general in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for
Presidential Elector for New York.
Member, Loyal
Legion.
Died in Auburn, Cayuga
County, N.Y., April
29, 1920 (age 80 years, 316
days).
Interment at Fort
Hill Cemetery, Auburn, N.Y.
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George Frederick Seward (1840-1910) —
also known as George F. Seward —
of California; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Florida, Orange
County, N.Y., November
8, 1840.
U.S. Consul in Shanghai, 1861-63; U.S. Consul General in Shanghai, 1863-76; U.S. Minister to China, 1876-80; president, Fidelity and Casualty
Company of New York, 1893-1910.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
28, 1910 (age 70 years, 20
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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Walter Harrison Blodget (1850-1923) —
also known as Walter H. Blodget —
of Worcester, Worcester
County, Mass.; West Boylston, Worcester
County, Mass.
Born in Denmark, Lewis
County, N.Y., November
2, 1850.
Republican. Produce
merchant; mayor
of Worcester, Mass., 1904-05.
Died in West Boylston, Worcester
County, Mass., January
6, 1923 (age 72 years, 65
days).
Interment at Ogdensburg
Cemetery, Ogdensburg, N.Y.
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Relatives: Son
of Harrison
Blodget and Diantha (Dewey) Blodget; married 1885 to Mary
Francis Spaulding; first cousin twice removed of Abijah
Blodget; second cousin thrice removed of Oliver
Ellsworth and James
Doolittle Wooster; second cousin four times removed of Andrew
Adams; third cousin once removed of Rush
Green Leaming; third cousin twice removed of Henry
Leavitt Ellsworth and William
Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
Frisbee, Samuel
Swayze Seward, Augustus
Seymour Porter and Peter
Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Lucian
Dallas Woodruff and Albert
Lemando Bingham; fourth cousin once removed of Bela
Edgerton, Heman
Ticknor, Truman
Hotchkiss, Jairus
Case, Elisha
Hunt Allen, Gouverneur
Morris, Joseph
Pomeroy Root, Luther
Thomas Ellsworth, Herman
Arod Gager and George
Alexander Ball. |
| | Political families: Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Frederick Whittlesey Seward Jr. (1874-1960) —
also known as Frederick W. Seward, Jr. —
of Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y.
Born in Middletown, Orange
County, N.Y., November
6, 1874.
Progressive. Physician;
candidate for New York
state assembly from Orange County 2nd District, 1915; Dry
candidate for delegate
to New York convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Died in Goshen, Orange
County, N.Y., March 4,
1960 (age 85 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mount View Cemetery, Pekin, N.Y.
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