Seward

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Seward was the name of a number of people and places:

Contents 1 People 1.1 Family name 1.2 Other 2 Places named Seward

[edit] People

[edit] Family name

• William H. Seward, Sr. was an early member of the United States Republican Party, United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln
• Frances Adeline Seward was the wife of William H. Seward, Sr., a First Lady of New York State.
• Frederick W. Seward was the son of William H. Seward, Sr., two time United States Assistant Secretary of State
• William H. Seward, Jr. was the son of William H. Seward, Sr., served as a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War.
• Olive Risley Seward was the adopted daughter of William H. Seward, Sr.
• William E. Seward was an abolitionist who sold some land in upstate New York to Harriet Tubman.
• Julian Seward is the developer of bzip2 is an open source data compression algorithm and program.
• Albert Charles Seward is winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal.
• Harold H. Seward is the developer in 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm.
• Anna Seward was an English writer of the 19th century.
• Jack Seward is the author of Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide.
• Christopher Seward is Headteacher of Davenant Foundation School in Loughton, Essex, UK which was founded in 1680 by the Rev.Ralph Davenant.
• Terry Maxwell Seward is a geochemist and Professor at ETH Zurich, name patron for the mineral Sewardite and 2005 recipient of the Bunsen Medal of the European Union of Geosciences (EUG)

[edit] Other

• William Seward Burroughs(1855-1898) was the inventor of an adding machine, and founder of the Burroughs Corporation which began in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States of America.
• William Seward Burroughs II(1914-1997) was an American novelist, grandson of the inventor.
• William Seward Burroughs III(1947-1981) was an American novelist, son of the novelist.
• Seward Collins was publisher of the periodical The American Review (1933-1937) who was a prominent proponent of fascism in pre-WWII America.
• J. Seward Johnson, Jr. is a sculptor born in 1930.

[edit] Places named Seward

• Seward, Alaska is a place in the State of Alaska in the United States of America.
• Seward Peninsula is a peninsula in the State of Alaska in the United States of America.
• Seward, Nebraska is the county seat of Seward County in the State of Nebraska in the United States of America.
• Seward County is a county in the State of Nebraska in the United States of America.
• Seward County is a county in the State of Kansas in the United States of America.
• Seward, New York is a town in the State of New York in the United States of America.
• Seward Park is a suburban neighborhood in south Seattle, Washington.
• Seward is a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• Seward's Folly is an early derisive name for Alaska.
• Seward, PA is a small borough in Western Pennsylvania.