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GEORGE W. SEYMOUR, M.D., an active and successful physician of Westfield, is a son of Thomas W. and Matilda (Green) Seymour, and was born at Mayville, Chautauqua county, New York, on December 13th, 1841. The Seymours are of English descent, and Dr. Seymour is of the ninth generation of the American branch of the family. Grandfather Seymour, and his father, Thomas W. Seymour, came in 1831 from Lee, Oneida county, to Mayville, where the former, who was a carpenter and joiner by trade, died in April, 1842. Thomas W. Seymour is a native of Lee, and has been successfully engaged in farming ever since settling at Mayville. He is a self-educated and well informed man of close observation and good judgment. He is a Baptist, in religious belief, and a republican in politics, and has held various offices of both his church and his village. His wife, Matilda (Green) Seymour, who is a member of the Baptist church, was born in Tompkins county.

George W. Seymour received his education in the public schools and the academy of Mayville. In 1868 he commenced to read medicine with Dr. G. R. Hall, then of Westfield, but now professor of surgery in Hahnemann Medical college, Chicago, but finished his course of reading with Dr. Asa S. Couch, now of Fredonia. He then entered the New York Homoeopathic college, from which medical institution he was graduated in the spring of 1872. During the same year he opened an office at Westfield, where he has continued ever since in the successful practice of his profession.

In 1866 Dr. Seymour united in marriage with Lucy A., daughter of A. B. Briggs, of the town of Portland. They have two children: Carl J., who was graduated from the law department of Cornell university; and Nellie E.

Dr. George W. Seymour is a republican in politics, and owns a grape farm of forty acres. While fitting for his profession he taught school for ten years to acquire means to defray his expenses at the New York Homoeopathic college. Dr. Seymour has a good practice, is a member of the New York State and the Northwestern medical societies, and has been medical examiner for several years at Westfield for several leading life insurance companies. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and Free and Accepted Masons.