esteem by press and people, and extracts from Mr. Seymour's addresses. But Mr. Seymour's associates in the Historical Society cannot refrain from paying at least a brief tribute to the memory of one of the founders of the society, its faithful secretary for nearly all the years of its existence, and one year its president.

Mr. Seymour was born in Herkimer, N. Y., December 16, 1820, and since 1841 had been a resident of Mount Morris, where he was in active business until within three years of his death, which occurred February 21, 1892. In 1843 Mr. Seymour married Frances Hale Metcalf, who survives him with one daughter and three sons, viz: Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell of Albany, Henry H. Seymour of Buffalo, Norman A. and Edward C. Seymour of Mount Morris. Mr. Seymour's life and character are admirably summed up in the following words by his competent biographer in the Mount Morris Union: "He had a broad mind and generous heart; in business honest; among friends sincere; a citizen of pure conscience, reverencing law and devoted to the public weal; a thorough gentleman, bearing himself gently to every man, whether of high or low estate. He filled a useful and distinguished place among the people in whose midst his life was spent, and by his death they have suffered a great loss, socially as well as in a public sense." Mr. Seymour's talent as a writer and speaker were ever at the service of this society. He was its recording and corresponding secretary, its treasurer, its biographer and historian, its defender, exponent and ever faithful friend. We can truly say of him what he himself said of a departed friend whom he eulogized before this society: "His simplicity of character, honesty of purpose, unbending integrity, and uncompromising devotion to the public interests, gave him a firm hold upon the confidence and affection of the people. His Christian life was anchored in his unswerving faith in the truths of the Bible, and earnest belief in the religion of the fathers. His benevolence was unbounded, quiet and unostentatious, and flowed from a perennial fountain. He loved to make all around him happy."

UTICA.

William M. White.

Senator Blakesley,
Alexander Reid,
B. C. Nichols.

M. H. Mills,
D. H. Fitzhugh,*
William M. White,
B. F. Angel,
A. O. Bunnell,
Richard Johnson,*

*

YORK.

A D. Newton,
C. Cocher,

LIFE MEMBERS.

J. W. Begole,
L. C. Bingham,*
C. O., Shepard,
John F. Barber,"
Charles Shepard,
W. A. Wadsworth,

HONORARY MEMBERS.

Gen. J.W. Denver, Wash'ton, D. C.,
Hon. J. R. McPherson, N. J.,
Hon. O. M. Marshall, Buffalo,
Hon. G. W. Patterson,* Westfield,
Rev. A. J. Massey,* Mt. Morris,
Rev. G. K. Ward, Dansville,
J. G. Robert, Tecumseh, Mich.,
Hon. Charles S. Hall,* Almond,
Hon. George Tomlinson, Perry,
Rev. G. W. Peck, Dansville,

George W. Root,*
James Spittal,

H. P. Mills,
C. L. Bingham,*
W. Hamilton,
Matthew Wiard,
Isaac Hampton,
Herbert Wadsworth.

Hon. Angus Cameron, Wisconsin, Hon. Henry O'Reilly,* Rochester, Hon. Horatio Seymour, Utica, Hon. James O. Putnam, Buffalo, Rev. F. DeW. Ward,* Geneseo, Dr. W. J. Milne, Albany, Gov. Josiah Begole, Flint, Mich. Hon. Chas. E. Fitch, Rochester, Dr. James C. Jackson, Dansville, Hon. George S. Conover, Geneva, Rev. Dr. J. E. Kittredge, Geneseo, Rev. Dr. Levi Parsons, Mt. Morris. E. P. Fuller,* Grand Rapids, Mich., Joseph O'Connor, Rochester, J. H. McNaughton,* Caledonia.

PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY, WITH DATES OF ELECTION.

Livingston County Historical Society.

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION.

WE, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Livingston County, in the state of New York, of the full age of twenty-one years and upwards, and citizens of the United States, do, in pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, hereby associate ourselves together for historical purposes.

The name or title by which such society or corporation shall be known in law is the LIVINGSTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The particular business and object of such society and its general design is to discover, procure and to gather up and preserve whatever may relate to Western New York, and the respective towns and villages of Livingston County in particular, whether it relates to the preoccupancy of the country by the red man or to the white race, and to gather such statistics of population, education, manufacture, and business of the county as shall be of public utility and of use to the society. The officers of such society shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary and Treasurer, and nine Councilors who shall constitute a board of managers of said society as aforesaid, and their names for the first year of its existence, are as follows: D. H BISSELL, President.

M. H. MILLS, Vice President.
NORMAN SEYMOUR, Sec. and Treas.

L. B. PROCTOR, L. J. AMES, D. H. FITZHUGH, G. W. ROOT, S. P. ALLEN, B. F. ANGEL, RICHARD PECK, J. F. BARBER, E. H. DAVIS, Councilors.

The principal office and place of business of such society shall be located at Geneseo, the county seat of Livingston county, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the society from holding its meetings as provided and specified in its bylaws.

We, the undersigned members, officers and managers of such Society, do hereby certify the matters above stated, to the end that we, our associates and successors may, pursuant to the statute of the state aforesaid, in such case made and provided, be a body politic and corporate, by the name above stated, and in witness whereof we have severally hereunto subscribed our names, the thirteenth day of February, 1877.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MT. MORRIS, N. Y.

On this 13th day of February, 1877, personally appeared before me M. H. MILLS, NORMAN SEYMOUR, LOREN J. AMES, LEVI PARSONS, D. H. BISSELL, A. O. BUNNELL, L. B. PROCTOR, severally known to me to be the persons described in and who executed the above instrument, and they severally acknowledge the execution of the

same.

REUBEN WALLACE,

Dated February, 1877.

Justice of the Peace in and for Livingston County.

Filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the state of New York, and in the office of the clerk of the county of Livingston.