Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 148

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SERVISS, Garrett Putman:

Author, astronomer, editor; born Sha- ron Springs, N. Y., March 24, 1851; son of Garrett Putman and Katharine Shelp Serviss; was graduated from Cornell Uni- versity, B. S., 1872; Columbia Law School, 1874; on staff N. Y. Sun for several years. Author: Astronomy with an Opera Glass; The Conquest of Mars; The Moon Metal; Pleasures of the Telescope; Other Worlds. Member Cornell and Authors Club. Ad- dress, 8 Middagh St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

SETON, Ernest Thompson:

Naturalist, artist, author and lecturer; born South Shields, Durham, England, Aug. 14, 1860; son of Joseph Logan and Alice (Snowdon) Seton Thompson; great- great-grandson of George Seton, last Earl of Winton. The family is an ancient one of Scotch origin; the name Thompson was assumed temporarily by the family, and used by the writer as a non de plume. He was taken by his parents to Canada

in early childhood, and after pursuing a classical course at Toronto Collegiate In- stitute, he, at the age of eighteen, went to London to study art; there he was awarded a scholarship entitling him to seven years' free tuition at the Royal Academy, but becoming dissatisfied with the methods of instruction, he left the academy in 1882, and joined a brother who had a farm on the upper Assinniboine River, in Manitoba. Three years-the de- cisive period of his life-were spent in that region, and much of the time was devoted to zoological expeditions, cover- ing hundreds of

miles. A series of papers contributed

to the various sci- entific journals in 1883-84-85, brought his name into public notice and

the volumes that grew out of them, The Birds of Manitoba, and the Mam- mals of Manitoba led to his appoint- ment as government naturalist to the province. The illustrations for these and other papers added to his reputation, and in 1885 the Century Co., of N. Y. City, invited Mr. Seton, or Seton-Thompson, for so he signed himself for several years, to remove to that city and aid in illustrating The Encyclopaedic Diction- ary; more than 1,000 drawings of ani- mals and birds were made by him for this work. At the conclusion of his engage- ment, in 1890, he sailed for Europe, and became a pupil of Henry Mosler, in Paris. Within a year he had painted his first picture, the subject being a sleeping wolf, and this being sent to the Salon was hung on the line; to subsequent salons he contributed paintings and drawings of wolves, to the number of eighteen, and out of his predilection for this animal grew the nickname of Wolf. He re- turned to America in 1892 and at the Co- lumbia Exposition, 1893, exhibited a large canvas, entitled Awaited in Vain, which represented a wolf triumph over man. During 1893 he visited New Mexi- co. and there distinguished himself by killing a famous wolf which for years had thwarted the efforts of other hunters to take his head. A story based on this experience, and entitled Lobo, appeared in Scribner's Magazine in 1894, and was pronounced by leading journals to be one of the best wolf stories ever written. In 1894 he returned to Paris; studied under Gerome, Bourgereau and Ferrier, and also completed a work on the an- atomy of animals from the artist's point of view; this represented four years' seri- ous labor, and was published in 1896,

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with the title of Art Anatomy of Animals, | by G. Schirmer, Jr., Boston, Mass. (music and was highly praised by such artists as Lord Leighton and Gérome. Since 1896 he has resided in N. Y. City, engaged in literary work, but from time to time he has appeared on the lecture platform in all parts of the U. S., with unusual suc- cess. His books have had great influence in popularizing the study of natural his- tory, while exciting universal admiration for their purely literary and artistic qual- ity and their fresh and sympathetic treatment of animal life. Wild Animals I Have Known (1898), the most popular of these, was followed by The Trail of the Sandhill Stag, (1899); Biography of a Grizzly, (1900); Wild Animal Play for Children, (1900); Pictures of Wild Ani-

mals, (1901); Lives of

the Hunted, (1901); Two Little Savages, (1903); Mon- arch, the Big Bear, (1904); Woodmyth and Fable, (1905). Married in N. Y. City, June 1, 1896, Grace, daughter of Albert Gallatin, of San Francisco, herself an artist and author. Residence, Wyndy- goul, Cos Cob, Conn .; and 80 West 40th St., N. Y. City.

SETON, Grace Gallatin:

Author, book designer; born at Sacra- mento, Cal .; daughter of Albert Gallatin and Nemie Rhodes. Left California at age of seven, and was educated in De- troit, Chicago (Chicago Female College) and Brooklyn (Packer Collegiate Insti- tute; moved to N. Y. City in 1888, where she has since resided, with the exception of intervals spent abroad. During one of these, 1894-96, she began writing for peri- odicals in London, Paris and N. Y. City, appearing in Quartier Latin, Paris; La- dies' Pictorial, Home Notes, and others, London. In America she was a regular contributor to the San Francisco Call and the Chronicle, often using the pen name of Dorothy Dodge; also writing for Demorest's Magazine, The Delineator, Our Animal Friends, and the New Maga- zine. In 1901-02 she contributed a series entitled A. B. C. Zoo Sketches, to the Truth Magazine; also has written several children's stories, syndicated; in 1900 the book A Woman Tenderfoot was pub- lished, which previously appeared serial- ly in The Puritan, it being the result of several long trips in the Rocky Moun- tains in company with Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, whom she married on June 1, 1896. Earliest publication ap- peared in The Mountain Echo in 1889; in 1902 a song entitled If You were I and I Were You, Sweetheart, was published

Seton's earliest by Randegger). Mrs. work in designing was in costumes for the stage, 1892, and the first cover design published was for The Art Anatomy of Animals, 1896. A list of books for which she has done the designs for cover, title page, make-up and general supervision, in which she has followed original meth- ods and been successful in a field hitherto undeveloped, are as follows: Art Anat- omy of Animals; Wild Animals I Have Known; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Biography of a Grizzly; The Wild Ani- mal Play; A Woman Tenderfoot; Lives of the Hunted; Pictures of Wild Animals; Two Little Savages; Woodmyth and Fa- ble. She is president of the Pen and Brush, a club composed of women writers, paint- ers and sculptors, 1899-1901, 1903-05; New York delegate of the League of American Pen Women, 1902-04; member of the Women's Press Club of N. Y. City, the Wednesday Afternoon Club, the National Arts Club; also member of the advisory board of the School of Applied Design for Women; of the governing board Con- necticut council of the Sequoya League; the Edwina Free Kindergarten ; director of the Woman's Traveling Exchange. Resi- dences, Wyndygoul, Cos Cob, Conn., and 80 \Vest 40th St., N. Y. City.

SEVERANCE, Frank Hayward:

Writer : secretary of Buffalo Historical Society, lecturer on history; born Man- chester, Mass., Nov. 28, 1856; son of Lucius Warren and Maria Lucretia (Hay- ward) Severance; attended Union School, State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis .; learned the printer's trade; Knox College, Galesburg, Ill. (one year); was graduated, (degree of Bachelor of Science) Cornell University, 1879 ; reporter and city editor of Gazette, Erie, Pa., 1879-81 ; reporter and city editor Buffalo Express, 1881-85 ; man- aging editor Illustrated Buffalo Express, 1886-1902 ; editor of volumes IV., V., VI. and VII., Buffalo Historical Society Pub- lications. He was also the editor and author of Gilbert Family Captivity, and other narratives of Indian warfare, (1904). Author: Old Trails on the Niagara Fron- tier, (first edition, 1899; second edition, 1902); contributor to American Library Association's Annotated Bibliography of American History, (1901); to the Ency- clopedia Americana, (1903-04) ; author of Bibliography of the Niagara Region,

(1902-03). Has traveled extensively;

around the world, 1890-91. Married at Isle la Motte, Vt., Aug. 19, 1885, Lena

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Lilian Hill. Has three children. Resi- dence, 150 Jewett Ave .; office, Historical Building, Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y.

SEVERN, Edmund:

Musician; born Nottingham, England, Dec. 10, 1862; son of Edmund and Eliza- beth Thornton Severn; brought to U. S. in 1866; was educated at common schools, Hartford, Conn .; pupil under his father, Franz Milcke, Bernhard Listermann and Emanuel Wirth, Philip Scharwenka and George W. Chadwick. Married, Mont- clair, N. J., 1900, Minna Sites. His com- positions include orchestral, chamber, in- strumental and vocal music. Address, 131 W. 56th St., N. Y. City.

SEWARD, Frederick W .:

Lawyer; born Auburn, N. Y., July 8, 1830; son of Hon. William H. and Frances A. (Miller) Seward; was educated at the public schools of Auburn, and Union Col- lege, Schenectady, where he was gradu- ated in 1849; studied law with Judges Kent and Davies in N. Y. City ; admitted to Bar, 1851; became associate editor and later one of the proprietors of the Albany Evening Journal. In 1861 he was sent from Washington to Philadelphia to warn President Lincoln of a plot to assassinate him in Baltimore; was appointed Assist- ant Secretary of State, and held that of- fice during the administrations of Presi- dents Lincoln and Johnson. Was attacked and nearly murdered on the night of April 14, 1865, when Booth murdered President Lincoln. His chief diplomatic work during Johnson's administration was aiding the purchase of Alaska; new treaty with China and the Panama Canal; retired from office, 1869; 1874, was elected to the New York Legislature and had charge of the bill for the first ele- vated railroad in N. Y. City ; in 1877, re- sumed his old place in department of state, introduced reforms in the consular service, took part in negotiations securing a Samoan harbor to United States, and in developing commercial and diplomatic re- lations with Oriental powers; as acting Secretary of State, sat in cabinets of Pres- idents Lincoln, Johnson and Hayes; 1881, was one of the commissioners in behalf of the State to participate in the Yorktown Centennial. In 1891 he published a biog- raphy of W. H. Seward in three volumes; 1894 Journal of a West India Cruise. President of Sagaponack Realty Co., of Union College Alumni Association (1900) ; and the Society of the Cayugas (1902). Member International Arbitration Confer-

ence at Washington, Jan., 1904. Presided at Semi-Centennial of Republican party Saratoga, 1904. Address, Montrose, N. Y. SEWARD, George Frederick:

Insurance president; born Florida, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1840; was educated at Seward Institute and Union College. Married Kate Sherman, daughter of Isaac Sher- man, of Ohio and California, and has one son and three daughters. Consul at Shanghai, 1861-63; consul-general, 1863- 76; minister to Corea, 1869; minister to China, 1876-80; special mission to Siam, 1867; president North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1865-67; since 1893 president of the Fidelity and Casualty Co., of N. Y. City ; vice-president Wilson Aluminum Co. Member of the American Geographical Society, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Institute of Civics, American Electro- Chemical Society, American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, American Peace Society, Authors Club of N. Y., Chamber of Commerce (chairman of com- mittee on taxation), Civil Service Reform Association, New England Society of Orange, N. J., Historical Society of New Jersey, National Municipal League, Law- yers Club of N. Y., Patria Club of N. Y., Reform Club of N. Y., Sons of the Revo- lution, Union College Alumni Association of N. Y .; trustee of Union College ; LL. D. of Union College ; holds decoration of Dan- ish government (Commander of Dane- brog and of French government (Com- mander of the Dragon of Annam). Au- thor: Chinese Immigration and Its Social and Economic Aspects (Scribner's, 1881) ; Digest of Taxation System of N. Y., and of various papers on economic, social and po- litical topics. Address, 99 Cedar St., N. Y. City.

SEWARD, William:

Colonel and brevet brigadier-general, National Guard, New York (retired) ; born New Hackensack, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1837; son of Wiliam Seward and Catha- rine Charlock; was educated at public and high schools; came to N. Y. City, 1856,

and entered into mercantile business. Joined Company E, Seventh Regiment, as private, Oct., 1858; commissioned first lieutenant while in service of U. S., 1862; served in Civil War during years of 1861- 62-63; appointed adjutant, Ninth Regi- ment, 1866; elected Major, Ninth Regi- ment, 1868; appointed assistant adjutant general, Third Brigade, April, 1870; colo- nel by brevet, Jan., 1879; colonel, Ninth Regiment, April, 1882 ; brigadier-general

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by brevet, May, 1898. Retired at own re- quest after thirty-eight and one-half years' service, May, 1898. Member Lafayette Post, G. A. R., No. 140, since 1886. Ad- dress 150 Nassau St., N. Y. City.

SEWARD, William H .:

Soldier and banker; born June 18, 1839, Auburn, N. Y., in the homestead erected in 1816 by his maternal grandfather, Judge Elijah Miller, now known as the "Seward Mansion." He was the third and youngest son of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and of Frances A. Seward. In 1857, desiring to support him- self and gain a business knowledge, he secured a clerkship in a large hardware store in Albany, where he remained two years. In 1859, he relinquished his clerk- ship to become the private secretary of his father, then a United States Senator in Washington. Here he made the per- sonal acquaintance of many of the most distinguished public men of that day. In June, 1860, married Miss Janet M. Wat- son, and to them have been born three children, Cornelia, wife of Frederick I. Allen, attorney and counsellor-at-law, and now U. S. commissioner of patents; Wil- liam H. Seward, Jr., attorney of the firm of Underwood, Storke & Seward, and Miss Frances Janet. During this year, in connection with his early friend, Clinton D. MacDougall, he projected and organ- ized, in Auburn, N. Y., the banking house of William H. Seward & Co. Early in 1862 he was appointed by Governor Mor- gan one of the war committee of his Con- gressional district, of which committee he was made secretary; during this sum- mer he was engaged in enlisting and for- warding troops. In August, leaving his business interests in trustworthy hands, he accepted the appointment of lieuten- ant-colonel of the regiment then organiz- ing, the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth N. Y. Volunteers, soon afterward changed to Ninth N. Y. Heavy Artillery; in Sept., 1862, his regiment was first assigned to duty in Haskins' division, Twenty-second Army Corps, defences of Washington, where, under the direction of the engi- neers department, Lieutenant-Colonel Seward took an active part in the con- struction of several of the large forts north of the Potomac; among them, and the most important, was Fort Foote, at Rosier's Bluff, where he mounted and used the largest land ordnance then known to the service. This fort is one of the few of those historic landmarks of

the Rebellion still standing. In the spring of 1863, Lieutenant-Colonel Seward was sent by President Lincoln, under the di- rection of the War Department, on a deli- cate secret mission to New Orleans and to General Banks, then operating on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana; this service was satisfactorily accomplished, but not without much danger and hardship. In May, 1864, the Ninth Artillery, under Colonel Seward's command, he having been promoted to colonel, joined the Army of the Potomac at Hanover Court House, and became a part of the Second Brigade, Rickett's Third Division, Wright's Sixth Army Corps, under General Grant. From this time forward he participated in many of the engagements around Petersburg and Richmond, among which was the battle of Cold Harbor, where he led in person a successful assault on the rebel earthworks in front of his command with a loss to his regiment of 142 killed and wounded; for gallant service in this en- gagement General Rickett's division re- ceived special commendation from Gen- eral Meade. On July 6, with one battalion, four companies of his regiment, Colonel Seward was hurriedly sent, with part of Rickett's division, to Frederick, Md., to oppose General Early, who was advancing upon Baltimore and Washington. At the battle of Monocacy, which took place July 9, and proved to be one of the most obstinately contested battles of the war, lasting most of the day, he was wounded in the arm and sustained a broken leg by the fall of his horse, shot under him on the final charge. General Lew Wallace, in command of the Union forces, in a dis- patch to Washington, reported Colonel Seward "as having acted with rare gal- lantry." Soon after his services were emphasized by an autograph letter from Secretary of War Stanton, inclosing his appointment as brigadier-general of Vol- unteers for "gallant and meritorious ser- vices." As soon as his wounds permitted he was sent to Martinsburg in command of the First Brigade, Third Division, De- partment of West Virginia, then operat- ing in the Shenandoah Valley, and for a short time, after the capture of General Crook, he was in command of the same division at Harper's Ferry. His military service ended with his resignation at the close of the war, when he resumed the place at the head of his banking house, which, through his energy and foresight, is now, after a prosperous existence of more than forty years, recognized as one

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of the strongest institutions of the kind in Western New York. Several years ago General Seward established in Auburn, and has since conducted at his own ex- pense, Free Reading Rooms for Working- men, which have rapidly grown in popu- larity, until the average attendance each season reached forty thousand. In poli- tics General Seward has always been an active, enthusiastic and generous adher- ent of the Republican party. While fre- quently mentioned by his friends for po- litical honors, he has usually declined, preferring a business life to the perplexi- ties and obligations of a political career; in 1884 was a prominent candidate for governor at the Saratoga Convention, and was earnestly pressed for that position by his party associates and friends. He has twice been nominated an elector-at- large on the Republican State Presiden- tial ticket, and was made president of the Electoral College at its session in Albany in 1889 by the unanimous choice of his associates. Is president of Auburn City Hospital; trustee of Wells College, Cay- uga County Savings Bank; director in American Express Co. Member of the

American Geographical Society, Loyal Legion, Union League Club of New York, United Service Club, G. A. R., Grant Monument Association, American His- torical Society and others. Address, Au- burn, N. Y.

SEWELL, Albert Henry :

Jurist; born Hamden, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1847; son of William H. and Celinda Sewell; was graduated from Cornell, 1871, Albany Law School, 1873; admitted to N. Y. Bar same year. Married Mary E. Wright, 1889. N. Y. Assemblyman, 1878, county judge and surrogate, Delaware Co., 1889-99; justice of Supreme Court, Sixth Judicial District, since 1899; present term expires 1913. Republican. Member Brooklyn Club of Brooklyn. Address, Delhi, N. Y.

SEWELL, Robert van Vorst:

Artist, mural painter; born N. Y. City, 1860; son of Robert and Sarah Van Vorst Sewell; was graduated from Columbia, 1893; art student under Lefebvre and Boulanger. Married Lydia Amanda Brewster. His work includes the mural paintings in many private residences and public buildings, notably that in the resi- dence of George Gould at Georgian Court, Lakewood. Awarded first Hallgarten prize, National Academy of Design, 1888; also silver medal at Pan-American and other expositions. Member Architectural

League, National Academy of Design, Society Mural Painters, Municipal Art Society, Century, Union League, and Lotos Clubs. Address, 25 W. 67th St., N. Y. City.

SEXTON, Pliny Titus :

Lawyer and banker; born Palmyra, N. Y., June 12, 1840; son of Pliny and Hannah Sexton; was educated in private schools, Palmyra Classical Union School, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., and was graduated from the State and National Law School, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1859, with the degree of LL. B .; admitted to the Bar of N. Y., 1861, and to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the U. S., in 1882. President of the First National Bank of Palmyra since 1876; president of the Village of Palmyra, 1879- 83, and of its board of education, 1883-89; Republican candidate for treasurer of the State of New York in 1883; elected regent (for life) of the University of the State of New York in 1890; honorary chancellor of Union University, Schenectady, N. Y., and received degree of LL. D., in 1893. Member American Library Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of N. Y., New York State Bar Association and American Bar Association. Address, Palmyra, N. Y.

SEYMOUR, Frederick:

Lawyer; born Whitney's Point, N. Y., Aug. 2, 1856; son of George W. and Mary Freeman Seymour; was graduated from Yale, 1881; Columbia Law School; ad- mitted to N. Y. Bar, 1882. Married, 1885, Julia C., daughter of Nathan Dikeman, of Waterbury, Conn. Member law firm of Seymour, Seymour & Harmon. Member Lawyers and Essex County Country and Orange of Orange, N. J., Clubs. Resi- dence, E. Orange, N. J .; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City.

SEYMOUR, Henry Hale:

Lawyer; born Oct. 27, 1849, at Mt. Morris, N. Y .; prepared at Mt. Morris Academy; attended Dartmouth College, 1867-68; was graduated from Cornell Uni- versity, B. S., 1871. Admitted to the Bar, 1874. Lieutenant-colonel and Judge Advocate, N. G., N. Y., 1880-85. Commis- sioner of Jurors, U. S. District Circuit Courts, 1889, and Deputy Commissioner of Jurors, Erie Co., since 1895. Examiner of candidates for admission to the Bar, 1884- 95. Author: Ceramic Art in Egypt. Mem- ber Buffalo and University Clubs. Ad- dress, Buffalo Club, Buffalo, N. Y. SEYMOUR, John Sammis:

Lawyer; born Whitney's Point, N. Y.,

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Sept. 28, 1848; son of George W. and | paedic Surgery, (1898); also numerous monographs on orthopaedic subjects. Ad- dress, 28 East 38th St., N. Y. City.

Mary Freeman Seymour ; was graduated from Yale, 1875; LL.B., 1878. Married Clara E., daughter of General Charles Olmstead, Norwalk, Conn. State Senator Connecticut, 1891-93; U. S. Commissioner of Patents, 1893-97. Member law firm of Seymour, Seymour & Harmon. Clubs: Quill and Lawyers. Residence, Whitney's Point, N. Y .; office, 40 Wall St., N. Y. City.

SHAFFER, Newton Melman:

Physician, orthopaedic surgeon; born Kinderhook, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1846; son of the Rev. James N. Shaffer. He was a student in the New York Hospital for Rup- tured and Crippled, 1863-68 ; was graduat- ed from the N. Y. University Medical Col- lege in 1867. Married, Oct. 15, 1873, Margaret H. Perkins, of Gardiner, Me .; assistant resident surgeon Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, 1867-68; assistant surgeon N. Y. Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital 1871-75, and surgeon-in- chief of the same from 1876 to 1898 ; clini- cal professor of orthopaedic surgery, N. Y. University Medical College from 1882 to 1886, and in 1897-98; same chair in Cornell University Medical College since 1898; orthopaedic surgeon St. Luke's Hos- pital, 1872-88. Is consulting surgeon of other hospitals and infirmaries, including St. Luke's and Presbyterian Hospitals. He is the founder and the surgeon-in- chief of the N. Y. State Hospital for Crip- pled and Deformed Children at Tarry- town, N. Y. He took the initial steps in the formation of the N. Y. and American Orthopaedic Association, and secured the admission of the same to the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, in 1887; secured the recognition of orthopae- dic surgery in the International Medical Congress in Berlin in 1890. He has de- vised many forms of apparatus for de- formities of spine, hip and feet. Member and ex-president of the American Ortho- paedic Association, member and treasurer of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, member American Medical Association and of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine; member of many prominent medical societies; delegate to the Inter- national Medical Congresses in 1881 and 1900. Member Century and University Clubs. Author: Potts' Disease-Its Path- ology and Mechanical Treatment, (1879); The Hysterical Element in Orthopaedic Surgery (1880) ; Brief Essays on Ortho-

SHAFFER, William Henry:

Lawyer; was graduated from the Uni- versity of Rochester in 1871; law student, Rochester, N. Y., 1871-73; at Columbia College, 1873-74; at Rochester, N. Y., 1874-75 ; in mercantile pursuits, Rochester, N. Y., 1874-78 ; clerk of Supreme Court of Monroe County, N. Y., 1878-83 ; assistant district attorney of Monroe County, N. Y., 1883-87; lawyer, Rochester, N. Y., 1887 to date. Address, 14 College Ave., Ro- chester, N. Y.

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Who's who in New York (city and state) 1904, Part 148

Author: Publication date: 1904- Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc. Number of Pages: 1100

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Publication date: 1904-
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., etc.
Number of Pages: 1100