Bio of Seymour, S. Oakey (b.1823) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Seymour, S. Oakey, second cousin of Horatio Seymour, ex-governor of the
State of New York, and first cousin of A. Oakey Hall, ex-major of the city
of New York, is numbered among the early settlers of Minnesota State. He
was born December 22, 1823, in Otsego, and attended school for some time
in company with A. Oakey Hall in Bleecker street, New York city. For four
years after this he clerked in the first store opened at Huntley Station,
Illinois, and subsequently from 1844 to 1852 he was engaged for himself in
the wholesale and retail grocery business in New Orleans. In the fall of
1856 he settled in Minneiska, and in 1879, in company with his brother,
Daniel, bought of one Eddy what is now known as Plainview Bank. Prior to
this, in 1872, on May 25, he married Helen M. Watson, and has now four
children, two girls and two boys. He was at one time reputed to be in very
comfortable circumstances, but Dame Fortune turned the tide, so that he is
left now with only a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. In 1861 he
enlisted at Fort Snelling in Co. I, 1st Minn. Vols. He served in
twenty-two battles, among them First Bull Run, in which he was wounded,
Ball's Bluff, Yorktown and others. He lives in the enjoyment of only a
trivial pension for his services.
War of Rebellion (Civil War)