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Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878
Subjects: Biography, Portraits Biography Portraits
Publisher: New York : Johnson, Fry and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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tab-lished as a sporting paper by Mr. Bell,in London, and which, by the vigor ofits political articles, attained a largecirculation. Miss Cook was a frequentcontributor, furnishing, for a considera-ble part of the time, a poem weekly be-tween the years 1836 and 1850. In1849, she established a paper of herown, entitled Eliza Cooks Journal,which was continued weekly till 1854,when it was given up in consequenceof her failing health. A volume ofselections from her papers in this per-iodical, entitled Jottings from myJournal, was published by RoutleJgein 18G0. This gathering of articles ontopics of every-day life and manners isof a light, amusing, yet useful andpractical character, and shows the au-thoress to be as clever in prose as inpoetry. Various other volumes haveproceeded from her pen, chiefly collec-tions of her Poems; a Christmas vol-ume in 1860, and New Echoes andOther Poems in 1864. In this latteryear her name was placed on the liter-ary pension list of the English govern-ment.
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//y /y^«.^- /l^A^C<^-£-t^--r;i^ WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD THE family of this eminent states-man is traced to a Welsh ances-tor, who came to Connecticut in thereign of Queen Anne. A branch ofthis parent stock removed to NewJersey, where, during the War of theRevolution, Colonel John Seward, thegrandfather of the subject of thisnotice, sustained the character of azealous patriot, and supporter of thearmy of Washington. His son, SamuelS. Seward, received a liberal education,studied medicine; and, marrying MaryJennings, the daughter of Isaac Jen-nings, of Goshen, New York, removedin 1795, to Florida, a village in thetown of Warwick, Orange County, inthat State; where, we are told, he combined a large mercantile businesswith an extensive range of profession-al practice, both of which he carriedon successfully for the space of twentyyears, when he retired from active bus-iness and devoted himself to the culti-vation of the estate, of which, by con-stant industry and economy, he becamethe ow

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