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Henry Seymour
Gender:
Male
Born:
November 25, 1808
Died:
November 25, 1857
Home Town:
Litchfield, CT
Later Residences:
Painesville, OH
Marriage(s):
Levania Hunt Seymour (1837)
Biographical Notes:
Henry Seymour was the son of Moses and M. Mabel (Strong) Seymour, Jr. From 1820-1821, and again in 1824 he studied at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy in his hometown of Litchfield, Connecticut. He moved to the Western Reserve sometime after his studies at the Litchfield Law School in 1829. He died at the age of forty-nine in Painesville, OH.
Education
Years at school:
LLS: 1829; LFA: 1820-1821,1824
Other Education:
Attended the Litchfield Female Academy from 1820-1821 and in 1824.
Profession / Service
Profession:
Business; Political Office
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
- Delia Storrs Seymour
Sister
LFA (1818,1820-1821) - Levania Hunt Seymour
Wife - Jane Seymour Beckwith
Sister
LFA (1824-1828) - John Strong Seymour
Brother
LFA (1819) - Mabel Strong Seymour
Mother
LFA (1797) - Moses McCure Seymour
Brother
LFA (1831) - Louisa Seymour Lockwood
Sister
LFA (1815-1816,1819) - Mariana Seymour Kingsbury
Sister
LFA (1818-1821) - Epaphroditus Seymour
Brother
LFA (1824-1825) - George Seymour
Brother
LFA (1830-1831) - Moses Seymour, Jr.
Father
The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation. Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
1820 Litchfield Female Academy Summer Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1927).
1821 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog Summer Session (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1824 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School Fro 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The Univeresity Press, 1927).
Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School (Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1848), 23.
1821 Litchfield Female Academy Catalog Summer Session (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. Chronicles of A Pioneer School From 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1903).
1824 Litchfield Female Academy Winter Session Catalogue (Vanderpoel, Emily Noyes. More Chronicles of A Pioneer School Fro 1792 to 1833. Cambridge, MA: The Univeresity Press, 1927).
Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School (Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1848), 23.
Secondary Sources:
Jacobus, Donald Lines, et al. A History of the Seymour Family. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co., 1939.
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