The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-06-20
HoRArIo sEYmoUs.
Description of the Deerfield Home OF the
Great Retired DemOcrat-Daniei Web
ster's Chair, a window From FaneuIl Hall
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Description OF the DeerfeId Home OF the
Great Retired Democrat-Dsniel Web
ster's Chair, a window From FaneuIi all
Other Relics.
Horatio Seymour, Jr., ex-State Engineer
and Surveyor of New York. and nephew of
the Governor, is guest at the Grand Pacific
Hotel in Chicago, an attendant on the r all
way Exposition. He was asked by Tnb-
une reporter for information concerning his
uncle, ex-Governor Seymour, and gave the
following interesting account of him:
The Governor" he said, sis now seventy
three years old, and has long since retired
from politics. He still keeps up his interest
in public affairs, and is great reader OF the
newspapers He goes out bat very little"
will you say something of his home AID
snyironments?'
He lives three miles out of Utica, where
he has 500 acres on rising ground overlooking
the city, ard the Valley of the Mohawk for
twenty niles. The house stands on one of
the earliest cleared portions of land in that
region. In front of it is a cherry tree sup
posed to be 200 years old-a relic Of the
original forests"
mot the tree that George wash"
ION the veranda is the hesd of moose,
which once stood seven feet high on the
shoulders of an animal shot by the Governor
over twenty years ago in the Asirondacks.
The Governor made practice of going into
the great woods on snowshoes then. aud was
extremely fond of hunting. The region where
he lives was settled In 1884, and he moved
there when a boy, about the year 1920. fcOm
Pompey Hill, Onondsga County. where he
vas born. His house is peculiar structure,
with large open fire-places, where the wood
burns on andirons over 100 years old. The
WINDOWS reach to the floor aud give view of
the Mohawk Valley for many miles. 10 his
library Is a window from old Faneuil Hall of
Boston, and he sits at his desk in chair
once used by Daniel Webster. Or the walls
are weapons of the Revolution, aud he is a
great collector of antiquities relating TO the
history Of the country. There, too, is tue
original commission of the Order of Cincin-
Datus conferred on his grandfather, and the
original patent given by ono of the Colonial
Governors for the whole region about to one
of the settlers. From a window one can
see the land purchased by Washington after
the Revolution when he came through the
valley with General Philip SCHUYLER. On
the walls is the deed given by Washington
and signed by him conveying the property
to other hands.
The Governor takes an interest in all PEG.
pie about him. The farmers consult him
about their family affairs and crops, and he
constantly receives letters from all over the
country about all kinds of affairs of the peo-
pie as if he belonged to them. He is always
ready to give helping hand to any one that
deserves IL.
TO illustrate this story is told that
man coming into the city with load of
wood broke down or the Deerhald road,
whom no one stopped to help or paid any at
tention TO. Governor Seymour came along
and got out OF his conveyance and helped
him fix up his wagon, gave him a strap from
his own harness and sent him on his way.
The man afterward said: Il felt mighty
mean, because / stole the wood from the GOV
ernor.' But the joke of the affair is that Gov
ernor Seymour knew all along that the wood
bad been stolen from him, but concluded
that the man wanted it more than he did"
What about his political views?"
Have no fears; be is a candidate for no
office. He has never been politician in the
accepted sense of the term. He is a strong
believer in his party, and takes an interest in
everything that pertains to is welfare and of
the State. He has been President of tbs State
Dairyman's Association many years, and
takes on especial interest in educational mat.
tiers. He has been looked upon by all parties
IS a leader in the free-caDal movement. a
matter Of great moment to the West as well.
Last fall the State voted for free canal by
majority of 900, 600, a contamination largely
due to his efforts. The State consequently
to-day supports great waterway that east il
900, 100000 to build, and for which IT paws
81, coo, 600 annually To maintain free"