From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 556

ROBERT THOMPSON SEYMOUR (Harvey H.6, Abijah5, Thomas4, Matthew3, Thomas2, 
Richard1), was son of Harvey Hine SEYMOUR and Arabella THOMPSON.  (Harvey H. 
SEYMOUR was born July 13, 1790, at Wilton, Connecticut, and died at or near 
Elkhorn July 20, 1878.  His mother was Elizabeth HINE).  Robert T. SEYMOUR was 
born at Rhinebeck, July 13, 1814; had a fair education; had kept a hotel; was 
for a term sheriff of Dutchess county, and was once required to execute the 
sentence of the law upon one convicted of murder in the first degree.  No 
defense had been made in court, except to show circumstances which would now be 
thought to warrant much less than the extreme penalty.  While in jail, the 
prisoner and sheriff formed a warm friendship, and it needed more than common 
fortitude to carry out the last act.  In 1854 Mr. SEYMOUR bought the Rockwood 
farm in Lafayette, and also took part in county affairs, and in the business of 
the Agricultural Society, of which he was president in 1856.  In the 
legislative session of that year he was member of Assembly, chosen over Stephen 
G. WEST.  He was five times a member of the county board and twice its 
chairman.  He died at Elkhorn, February 20, 1879.  His wife was Harriet, 
daughter of William JAQUES and Mary COOPER.  She was born at Rhinebeck, October 
29, 1812, married March 26, 1835, and died October 19, 1878.  They had seven 
children.  Capt. Alexander Thompson SEYMOUR served in Company I, Twenty-eighth 
Infantry, and died in 1907.  William Harvey SEYMOUR was a business man at Lake 
Geneva; he died in 1894.  Mary Catherine is wife of Eli W. GARFIELD, at Elkhorn.

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