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" Similarly, English poet Anna Seward had a devoted friendship to Honora Sneyd, who was the subject of many of Seward's sonnets and poems.
In Secretary Seward's bedroom was his daughter, Fanny Seward.
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.
William Seward is generally known today for his purchase of Alaska-" Seward's Folly "-in 1867.
After conducting the tests themselves ( tests which Seward rigged ) they confirmed Seward's story.
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 ).
" Upon hearing of the attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, the three men ran to Seward's lodgings.
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.
In this adaptation, Mina was Dr. Seward's daughter and so it is implied that her name was Mina Seward.
After the attempt on Seward's life, Powell threw his bloody knife up into the gutter of the Seward house and fled on horseback.
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.
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.

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

wife and Frances
At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.
* Frances Bunsen ( 1791 – 1876 ), or Baroness Bunsen, Welsh painter and author, wife of Christian Charles Josias Bunsen
Ethan met his second wife, a young widow by the name of Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, early in 1784, and married her after a brief courtship on February 16, 1784.
The family, including Poe and Allan's wife, Frances Valentine Allan, sailed to Britain in 1815.
As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.
Among the most prominent members were the loose collective of The Four: acclaimed architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife the painter and glass artist Margaret MacDonald, her sister the artist Frances, and her husband, the artist and teacher Herbert MacNair.
Historian Scott Eyman wrote, " As the film ended and applause grew with the houselights, Sam Goldwyn's wife Frances looked around at the celebrities in the crowd.
Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, as the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins ( 1894 – 1972 ) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett ( 1888 – 1987 ).
The Duchess of Bronte, Frances Nisbet ( 1761 − 1831 ), is best known as the wife of British hero 1st Viscount Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, of Battle of Trafalgar fame.
The ceremony was held at the home that he and his wife Frances shared with his parents on 4300 Rugby Road, where he did most of his writing.
* Francis Cornford FBA: cremated and interred in grave of Francis Darwin with his wife Frances Cornford, Francis Darwin's daughter.
Fonda met his future wife Frances at Denham Studios in England on the set of Wings of the Morning, the first British picture to be filmed in technicolor.
He died of cancer on 26 March 1945, aged 82, his wife Frances and his daughter Megan at his bedside.
In the 1930s, he married his wife Frances, with whom he had two daughters and a son.
As he was looking at the picture, Goldwyn's wife Frances said " Sam never took it down.
It was at these classes that he first met his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair who was also a fellow apprentice with Mackintosh at Honeyman and Keppie.
Sam Raimi, director and friend of the Coens, appears as the snickering gunman at the siege of the Sons of Erin social club, while Frances McDormand, Joel Coen's wife, appears as the Mayor's secretary.
* Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of Grover Cleveland, and 28th First Lady of the United States
Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.
Leyland and his wife Frances.
" Adding to the emotional drama was Whistler's fondness for Leyland's wife, Frances, who separated from her husband in 1879.
Beatrix was the daughter of the sculptor John Birnie Philip and his wife Frances Black.
Seward ’ s wife Frances was deeply committed to the abolitionist movement.
* Frances Dee, actress, wife of actor Joel McCrea

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