Horatio Seymour Jr.

Horatio Seymour, Jr.
Born	January 8, 1844 Utica, New York, United States
Died	February 21, 1907 (aged 63) Utica, New York

Horatio Seymour Jr. (January 8, 1844 – February 21, 1907) was an American civil engineer, surveyor and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on January 8, 1844 in Utica, New York.

He was the son of John Forman Seymour (1814-1890, brother of Governor Horatio Seymour) and Frances Antill (Tappan) Seymour (d. 1853). He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1867, and had a degree of M.A. conferred on him some years later. On October 12, 1880, he married Abigail Adams Johnson (1855-1915).

He began engineering work with the City Surveyor of Utica, New York, and was on the survey of the Canastota and Cazenovia Railroad in Madison County, New York. In 1871 he became Assistant Engineer of the Seneca Falls and Sodus Bay Railroad, and afterwards was Assistant Engineer of the Wellsboro and Lawrenceville Railroad, and Chief Engineer of the Cowanesque Valley Railroad. In 1873 he made a survey of the Antrim mine of the Fall Brook Coal Co., and in 1874 a topographic survey of the lands of the Buffalo Coal Co. in Pennsylvania.

On December 1, 1874, he was appointed Assistant Engineer on the New York State Canals. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1878 to 1881, elected on the Democratic ticket in 1877 and 1879. From 1882 on, he took charge of the lands of the Michigan Land and Iron Company in Michigan. Later he returned to Utica and settled as a general practicing engineer.

He died on February 21, 1907 in Utica.^[1]

He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Family

His daughter Mary Ledyard Seymour, aged 20, eloped in 1901 with 65-year-old Henry Starnould, and after grudging consent from her parents, they married at Marquette, Michigan.

References

1. "Horatio Seymour". Hartford Courant. February 23, 1907. Retrieved 2012-10-13. Horatio Seymour, a nephew of Governor Seymour of New York, and the surveyor of the state of New York from 1878 to 1881, died in Utica ...

Further reading

• Engineers bios, at Rochester history (giving wrong death year)
• Political Graveyard
• The elopement, in NYT on November 25, 1901 (misidentifying her as granddaughter of Gov. Horatio Seymour [who had no issue], being in fact a great-niece)