Seward

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Contents 1 People 1.1 Family name 1.2 First name 1.3 Fictional 2 Places: United States 2.1 Counties 2.2 Cities and towns 2.3 Other 2.4 See also 3 Places: World 4 Other uses

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

[edit] People

[edit] Family name

• Adam Seward (born 1982), National Football League player
• Albert Charles Seward (1863 - 1941), British botanist and geologist, winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal
• Anna Seward (1747 - 1809), English writer of the 19th century
• Danny Seward (born 1976), British actor
• Ed Seward (1867- 1947), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Frances Adeline Seward (1805 - 1865), wife of William H. Seward, Sr., a First Lady of New York State
• Frederick W. Seward (1830 - 1915), son of William H. Seward, Sr., two-time Assistant Secretary of State
• George Seward (1840 - 1910), U.S. diplomat, envoy to China 1876 - 1880
• Harold H. Seward, developer in 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm
• James Lindsay Seward (1813 - 1886), American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia 1853 - 1859
• Julian Seward, developer of bzip2, an open-source data compression program
• Olive Risley Seward (1844 - 1908), adopted daughter of William H. Seward, Sr.
• Terry Maxwell Seward, geochemist for whom the mineral Sewardite is named
• Vern Seward, American technology writer
• Walter H. Seward (born 1896), American supercentenarian
• William E. Seward, abolitionist who sold some land in upstate New York to Harriet Tubman
• William H. Seward [Sr.] (1801 - 1872), Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln
• William H. Seward, Jr. (1839 - 1920), son of William H. Seward, Sr., a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War

[edit] First name

• Seward Collins (1899 - 1952), publisher of The American Review, prominent pre-World War II proponent of fascism
• Seward Smith, American politician, associate justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court

[edit] Fictional

• John Seward, character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula

[edit] Places: United States

• Seward's Folly, an early derisive name for the Alaska purchase

[edit] Counties

• Seward County, Kansas
• Seward County, Nebraska

[edit] Cities and towns

• Seward, Alaska
• Seward, Illinois
• Seward Township, Kendall County, Illinois
• Seward Township, Winnebago County, Illinois
• Seward Township, Minnesota
• Seward, Nebraska
• Seward, New York
• Seward, North Carolina
• Seward, Pennsylvania

[edit] Other

• Seward Highway, Alaska
• Seward Peninsula, Alaska
• Seward, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota

[edit] See also

• Seward High School (disambiguation)
• Seward Park (disambiguation)

[edit] Places: World

• Seward Mountains, Antarctica
• Sewards End, a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England

[edit] Other uses

• Seward Trunk Co., an American luggage company