. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . tab-lished as a sporting paper by Mr. Bell,in London, and which, by the vigor ofits political articles, attained a largecirculation. Miss Cook was a frequentcontributor, furnishing, for a considera-ble part of the time, a poem weekly be-tween the years 1836 and 1850. In1849, she established a paper of herown, entitled Eliza Cooks Journal,which was continued weekly till 1854,when it was given up in c
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . tab-lished as a sporting paper by Mr. Bell,in London, and which, by the vigor ofits political articles, attained a largecirculation. Miss Cook was a frequentcontributor, furnishing, for a considera-ble part of the time, a poem weekly be-tween the years 1836 and 1850. In1849, she established a paper of herown, entitled Eliza Cooks Journal,which was continued weekly till 1854,when it was given up in consequenceof her failing health. A volume ofselections from her papers in this per-iodical, entitled Jottings from myJournal, was published by Koutledgein 1860. This gathering of articles ontopics of every-day life and manners isof a light, amusing, yet useful andpractical character, and shows the au-thoress to be as clever in prose as inpoetry. Various other volumes haveproceeded from her pen, chiefly collec-tions of her Poems; a Christmas vol-ume in 1860, and New Echoes andOther Poems in 1864. In this latteryear her name was placed ou the liter-ary pension list of the English /lcX^^.<^^ //-^y^t t-<^Cc ^i: /^ WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD. THE family of this eminent states-man is traced to a Welsh ances-tor, who came to Connecticut in thereign of Qiieen Anne. A branch ofthis parent stock removeil to NewJersey, where, during the War of theRevolution, Colonel John Seward, thegrandfather of the su1)ject of thisnotice, sustained the character of azealous i:)atriot, and supporter of thearmy of Washington. His sou, SamuelS. Seward, received a liberal education,studied medicine; and, marrying MaryJennings, the daughter of Isaac Jen-nings, of Goshen, New York, removedin 1795, to Florida, a village in thetown of Warwick, Orange County, inthat State; where, we are told, he combined a large mercantile businesswith an extensive range of profession-al practice, both of which he
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