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.

William Seward is generally known today for his purchase of Alaska-" Seward's Folly "-in 1867.

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.

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.

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.

When a young man he wrote some Directions for Studying the English History, which were printed in the European Magazine for 1791 and in William Seward's Biographiana.

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.

Weed did this largely as a favor to his friend Erastus Corning, though Corning was a Democrat and had not supported Seward's gubernatorial bid or Taylor's quest for the presidency.

Weed soon became an influential member of the party and pushed Seward's name for the 1860 Presidential nomination of the party.

Thirty two witnesses were called to testify concerning Powell, including Seward's son, Augustus, and William Bell, who worked for the Seward household as a servant and doorman, and who admitted Powell the night of the assassination attempt.

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 mother, Amy, was a cheerleader for the Chicago Bears.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Seward's wife Frances Adeline Seward.

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.

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.

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

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

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

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

This is full evidence of your support for my principles.

Second, we will see how Sidney answered the charges, for while Sidney's essay was not specifically a reply to Gosson, his arguments do support the new theater.

At Milcote on November 3, 1597, the aldermen asked him to support their petition for a new charter.

In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.

`` Former Vice President Nixon came out in support of President Kennedy's program for stepping up the arms race.

The taxpayers of East Greenwich appropriate sums of money, as do other Kent County communities, for the support of the Kent County Memorial Hospital, a regional facility.

Kiwanis, American Legion and other groups donate small sums and the mothers do what they can to bring in dollars for its support.

We have been grand to Formosa itself -- lots of aid, and, most of the time, a policy of support for the offshore islands.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

efforts, as I see it, which are being directed, by the way, toward support for future actions, not for those already past.

The 1954 Amendments completely changed the financing of the vocational rehabilitation program, providing for a three-part grant structure -- for ( 1 ) basic support ; ;

In order to assist the States in maintaining basic vocational rehabilitation services, Section 2 of the amended Act provides that allotments to States for support of such services be based on ( 1 ) need, as measured by a State's population, and ( 2 ) fiscal capacity, as measured by its per capita income.

As is the case with the allotment provisions for support of vocational rehabilitation services, the matching requirements are also based on a statutory formula.

Beginning in 1960, the matching requirements for the base allotment are being adjusted ( upward or downward, as required ) 25% a year, so that by 1963 the entire support allotment will be matched on the basis of a 40% pivot State share, with maximum and minimum State shares of 50% and 30%, respectively.

And, given probable public attitudes -- about which reasonably good estimates can be made -- what action is called for to insure necessary support??

We cannot test public opinion until the President and the leaders of the country have gone to the public to explain what is required and have asked them for support for the necessary action.