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Seward (FREDERICK WILLIAM an American)

FREDERICK WILLIAM, an American lawyer; born in Auburn, N. Y., July 8, 1830; was graduated at Union College in 1849; admitted to the bar in 1851; and for 10 years was one of the editors and owners of the Albany "Evening Journal." He was sent to warn Abraham Lincoln of the plot to assassinate him in Baltimore in 1861; was assistant Secretary of State in 1861-1869 and 1877-1881; accompanied Admiral Porter on the special cial mission to negotiate West India treaties in 1867; participated in the purchase of Alaska; was a member of the New York Legislature in 1875; State Commissioner at the Yorktown Centennial Celebration in 1881; and author of "Life and Letters of William H. Seward"; "A West Indian Cruise"; and numerous lectures, magazine articles, etc.

He died in 1915.