The property actually contains two houses: one in back — Seward's actual birthplace — which was converted into a barn ; and one in front, built in the 1890s, used by the family that lived there for many years.

Seward's proclamation noted that Ohio and New Jersey lawmakers had reversed themselves and purported to rescind.

Although Wyatt was executed, Freeman, whose conviction was reversed on Seward's successful appeal to the New York Supreme Court, died in his cell of tuberculosis.

Seward and his family owned a home in Auburn, New York which is now a museum ; it was built in 1816 by Seward's father-in-law, Judge Elijah Miller.

In 1860 he was chairman of the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention where he placed Senator William H. Seward's name in nomination for President.

Seward, who is best remembered for purchasing Alaska (" Seward's Folly ") from Russia, was the first New Yorker to have a monument erected in his honor.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

" Similarly, English poet Anna Seward had a devoted friendship to Honora Sneyd, who was the subject of many of Seward's sonnets and poems.

The exterior of the Camelot Castle Hotel was used to portray Dr. Seward's asylum in the 1979 film, Dracula starring Laurence Olivier and Donald Pleasence.

As Johnson's Secretary of State, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as " Seward's Folly ".

More recent scholarship suggests that Taylor was not under Seward's influence and would have accepted the Compromise if he had not died.

In Secretary Seward's bedroom was his daughter, Fanny Seward.

Seward's most famous achievement as Secretary of State was his successful acquisition of Alaska from Russia.

The purchase was variously mocked by the public as Seward's Folly, " Seward's Icebox ," and Andrew Johnson's " polar bear garden.

Seward's Success was once proposed to be constructed here in the 1970s.

Another colourful treatment was Brian Seward's Aesop ’ s Fabulous Fables ( 2009 ) in Singapore, which mixes a typical musical with Chinese dramatic techniques.

U. S. Naval warships were ordered to the Orient, however, when Seward's term ended in 1869, he was unable to organize a naval expedition.

However, it was here that Seward's talent was recognised and her work published in the annual volume of poems from the gatherings, a debt that Seward acknowledged in her Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller ( 1782 ).

Public opinion in the United States was generally positive, though some criticized the purchase as " Seward's Folly " or " Seward's Icebox ".

Alaska was part of American Secretary of State William H. Seward's plan to incorporate the entire northwest Pacific Coast, chiefly for the long-term commercial advantages to the United States in terms of Pacific trade.

Meanwhile, the United States was so focused on issues of Reconstruction, that few Americans picked up on Seward's grand dream to expand Manifest Destiny to the Pacific.

The huge territory, with 20, 000 miles of coastline, was initially called by many skeptics " Seward's Folly ".

Sir Walter Scott believed that Seward's talents were discovered by Lady Miller, and Seward acknowledged her help in her Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller.

The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

It should not be confused with Seward's Day, the last Monday in March which marks the signing of the treaty for the Alaska Purchase in which the U. S. purchased Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867.

Weed skillfully blamed the Panic of 1837 on Martin van Buren and the Democrats, and in 1838, he pushed his friend and fellow Whig Seward for the governor's race, and was largely credited with Seward's victory.

Before Payne loomed the Old Clubhouse, Seward's home, where Key had once been killed.

He had no idea where Seward's room would be.

Reversing it, he smashed the butt down on Frederick Seward's head, over and over again.

Critics sneered at " Seward's Folly " and " Seward's Icebox " and " Icebergia.

When Sneyd married despite Seward's protest, Seward's poems became angry.

* Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in March.

Further, Seward's proclamation questioned the validity of those reversals.

Seward's wife Frances Adeline Seward.

Seward's support for Andrew Johnson extended to behind the scenes scheming for the President's acquittal during his 1868 Impeachment trial.

Historian David O. Stewart sums up Seward's involvement this way:

" Alaska celebrates the purchase on Seward's Day, the last Monday of March.

After buying land from the state of Florida, he laid out a town and named it after his birthplace of Gotha, Germany.

His birthplace is preserved in Florida, Missouri.

Another prominent African-American, the film actress Thelma ( Butterfly ) McQueen, moved with her family from her birthplace of Tampa, Florida to live on Cottage Row in Babylon, where she went on to graduate from Babylon High School and then pursued her acting career before later attending several universities and attaining a degree in political science.

Tampa Bay was the birthplace of commercial airline service, when pioneer aviator Tony Jannus flew the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914, from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Tampa using a Benoist Flying Boat — the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the world using a heavier-than-air airplane.

The airport is located on the west shoreline of Tampa Bay, six miles ( 10 km ) north of St. Petersburg, Florida ( the " birthplace of commercial air transportation ").

They maintain homes in Langer's birthplace of Anhausen and in Boca Raton, Florida.

It is the birthplace of two-time Stanley Cup Champion and current Florida Panthers left winger Tomáš Kopecký.

It is the birthplace of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a soldier on the army of Felipe II, who explored Florida in the 16th century and founded in 1565 the first successful ( continuously populated ) European town in what is now the United States, San Augustín ( now St. Augustine, Florida ).