The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-05-28
AMOS DUDLEY SEWARD DIES
ATTHE AGE OF NINETY-F0uR

Ventura, Cal, Free Press, May 49,
Amos Dudley Seward, who passed away
peacefully at his home on Oak street, Ven
tura, at eleven o'clock Tuesday night,
was the oldest man in Ventura county,
and probably the oldest Mason in the
state of California. He had been fail
ing very fast, for little more than
week. 1t was just the peaceful de-
cline of extreme old age Mr.. Seward
jof ninety four years, preserving his
faculties in a most wonderful manner
until the last. One week ago Friday,
he walked from his residence to the
postoffice to get his mail. That had
been his daily habit for years. But,
bed, growing steadily weaker until the
end came.
Mr.. Seward, who was lineal de-
scendant from that unfortunate Dudley
who was the husband of the Lady Jane
Grey, and who was beheaded for aiding
in his wife assumption of the English
crown, was of Revolutionary stock, like
wise. The family had long been in
America. His father, Amos Seward,
was married in Connecticut to Asenath
Dudley, both being residents of that
state, and removed after marriage to
Oneida county, New York, where the
elder Seward engaged in the business
of cotton manufacturing
I'm Oneida county, on April 10, 1913,
Amos Dudley Seward was born. He
was the fourth in a family of eight
children of whom one brother, Jonn
! Seward, now in his eighty fourth year,
! still lives at Tallmadge: Ohio. In 1918
when Amos Dudley was but three years
old, Amos Seward moved his family to
the Western Reserve, in Ohio, settling
at the town of Tallmadge, near Akron.
One of Father Stewards first memories,
F, if not his first was of the arrival of the
family at their new home in the wild
erness, the journey having been made
i'm winter on an OK sled9e. The land
for the new home had to be cleared of
the primeval forest and in this work
| Amos Dudley Seward lent what help
he could as he grew older. He also be-
gan his attendance at the country
school-for even at that early time
the American settlers looked as well
as they could to the education of their
children-and at the age of four years
the boy went to Sunday school for the
first time Since that time, not miss
ing single Sunday save when kept
away by illness or absence from town,
Amos Dudley Seward has attended
Sunday school regularly record of
ninety years.
| Mr.. Seward Joined the Presbyterian
church at the early age of sixteen years
and for seventy-four years has been an
elder in the organization. He was made
an elder of the church in Ventura
upon the first day of his attendance
here.
! The primary school which he at
three months i'm the winter time, but
| it served to prepare him for Tall
madge academy, which he entered in
1888. In 1884 he taught district school
for four months, receiving for his la
for the sum of $ll and his board. The
next winter he taught three months,
receiving $l3 and his board and in
1886 he went to work in a brick yard
in the neighboring state of Indiana.
Later he worked as a dry goods
clerk, and then served as assistant to
his father i'm the engineering depart
ment of the Toledo and Maumee canal,
which waterway the elder Seward plan
ned and built Later, Mr. Seward him
self worked as a civil engineer.
While in Indiana he was married, on
March 5. 1898, to Martha Dwight Hine,
who lived only until the oath of Sep
TENDER following. On July A. 1910,
while still resident of Indiana, Amos