Papers, 1711-1912.

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Papers, 1711-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122519825

The Seymour Family Papers are primarily of Horatio Seymour Jr. and his wife Abigail Adams (Johnson) Seymour, their children, and their antecedants. The biographical and genealogicial notes and writings include nine generations of the Seymour and and collateral families including Horatio Seymour Jr.'s biography on his uncle, "The Life of Governor Horatio Seymour." Correspondence is for the most part family letters with the bulk being Horatio Seymour Jr.'s letterbook for 1901 to 1903. Also there are two 1866 letters from Roscoe Conkling to his brother-in-law John Forman Seymour thanking him for his support during the Blaine-Fry controversy. Financial and legal materials contain miscellaneous documents and correspondence concerning finance, land holdings, estates, wills, military claims, and an 1868 letter by John Bloomfield Jervis (1795-1885) NYS civil engineer, recommending Horatio Seymour Jr. as a surveyor. Photographs and prints include family portraits as well as those of personalities such as Roscoe Conkling, U.S. Senator, John B. Jervis, Civil Engineer, and NYS Governors William L. Marcy and George Clinton. Photographs also include a family album of Horatio Seymour Jr.'s for 1887 to 1890 set in Utica, New York and Michigan; photographs of the construction of the Panama Canal taken on a trip in 1912; and photographs of family residence including "Lorenzo" the Lincklaen/Fairchild Mansion in Cazenovia, New York.

9 boxes (3.5 cu. ft.), 2 maps.(2 maps ; manuscript ; 39 x 40 cm. or smaller)

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American Periodical Series I

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