JOHN FORMAN SEYMOUR, fourth child and second son of Henry and Mary L. (Forman) Seymour, was born in the village of Pompey Hill, in the township of Onondaga, N. Y., September 21, 1814. In 1819 the family removed to Utica, N. Y., whence he entered Yale at the beginning of the Sophomore year. He studied law m Litchfield, Conn., under his first cousin, Origen S Seymour, and subsequently in Utica, in the office of Charles P Kirtland and William J. Bacon. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and entered into partnership with his brother, Horatio Seymour, in Utica After fourteen years of successful and lucrative practice, circumstances diverted him gradually from is profession and enlisted him in large business enterprises. In 1853 he was prominent in the organization of a company for the construction of a ship canal between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, by way of St. Mary's river, and his time was much occupied with this work for the next two years. From 1855 to 1857 he served as a director of the New York Central Railroad Company Subsequently he was for several years president of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company. He served as private secretary to his brother, on his election as Governor of New York in 1862, and filled subsequently with great efficiency the laborious office of General Agent of the State for the relief of its sick and wounded soldiers. He held no other public office besides that of Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Charities of the City of Utica, for four years after its organization in 1873, and that of a member of a tax commission appointed by Governor Cornell in 1881.
He died in Utica, after a long disablement from paralysis, February 22, 1890, in his 76th year.
He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 14,1839, Frances A., daughter of Arthur Tappan, who died September 5, 1860 In 1865 he married Helen L., daughter of Gen. Jonathan D. Ledyard, of Cazenovia, 1ST. Y., who died June 5, 1880 Of the three children by his first wife, one daughter died m childhood, and a son (Yale College 1867) and daughter survive him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
He died in Utica, after a long disablement from paralysis, February 22, 1890, in his 76th year.
He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 14,1839, Frances A., daughter of Arthur Tappan, who died September 5, 1860 In 1865 he married Helen L., daughter of Gen. Jonathan D. Ledyard, of Cazenovia, 1ST. Y., who died June 5, 1880 Of the three children by his first wife, one daughter died m childhood, and a son (Yale College 1867) and daughter survive him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
JOHN FORMAN SEYMOUR, fourth child and second son of Henry and Mary L. (Forman) Seymour, was born in the village of Pompey Hill, in the township of Onondaga, N. Y., September 21, 1814. In 1819 the family removed to Utica, N. Y., whence he entered Yale at the beginning of the Sophomore year. He studied law m Litchfield, Conn., under his first cousin, Origen S Seymour, and subsequently in Utica, in the office of Charles P Kirtland and William J. Bacon. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, and entered into partnership with his brother, Horatio Seymour, in Utica After fourteen years of successful and lucrative practice, circumstances diverted him gradually from is profession and enlisted him in large business enterprises. In 1853 he was prominent in the organization of a company for the construction of a ship canal between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, by way of St. Mary's river, and his time was much occupied with this work for the next two years. From 1855 to 1857 he served as a director of the New York Central Railroad Company Subsequently he was for several years president of the Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company. He served as private secretary to his brother, on his election as Governor of New York in 1862, and filled subsequently with great efficiency the laborious office of General Agent of the State for the relief of its sick and wounded soldiers. He held no other public office besides that of Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Charities of the City of Utica, for four years after its organization in 1873, and that of a member of a tax commission appointed by Governor Cornell in 1881.
He died in Utica, after a long disablement from paralysis, February 22, 1890, in his 76th year.
He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 14,1839, Frances A., daughter of Arthur Tappan, who died September 5, 1860 In 1865 he married Helen L., daughter of Gen. Jonathan D. Ledyard, of Cazenovia, 1ST. Y., who died June 5, 1880 Of the three children by his first wife, one daughter died m childhood, and a son (Yale College 1867) and daughter survive him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
He died in Utica, after a long disablement from paralysis, February 22, 1890, in his 76th year.
He married, in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 14,1839, Frances A., daughter of Arthur Tappan, who died September 5, 1860 In 1865 he married Helen L., daughter of Gen. Jonathan D. Ledyard, of Cazenovia, 1ST. Y., who died June 5, 1880 Of the three children by his first wife, one daughter died m childhood, and a son (Yale College 1867) and daughter survive him.
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1859_1924/1889-90.pdf
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