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William A. Seaver

Editor/Author/Insurance

Centurion, 1853–1868

Full Name William Augustus Seaver

Born 10 March 1815 in Albany, New York

Died 7 January 1883 in Mount Vernon, New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by Frederick S. Cozzens

Elected 6 July 1853 at age thirty-eight

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1855 and 1857 and was reinstated in May 1864 with a new set of proposers, Junius Brutus Stearns and Jasper F. Cropsey.