. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . real work shop, beingsupplied with various mechanical ap-pliances and materials for his in-ventions and experiments in steamengine construction. The cadets ofhis day had many scares from ex-l)losions and bursts of steam from thecast iron boiler used in connectionwith his stove. During the time hewas in New York and Brooklyn, hespent his spare time studying navalconstruction and subjects pertainingEpaphroditus Hager Seymour to mechanical engineering. He spent much time in the great naval machine shops watching the
. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . real work shop, beingsupplied with various mechanical ap-pliances and materials for his in-ventions and experiments in steamengine construction. The cadets ofhis day had many scares from ex-l)losions and bursts of steam from thecast iron boiler used in connectionwith his stove. During the time hewas in New York and Brooklyn, hespent his spare time studying navalconstruction and subjects pertainingEpaphroditus Hager Seymour to mechanical engineering. He spent much time in the great naval machine shops watching the construc-tion of the marine engines. Early in 1861, he was one of somethirteen hundred given a commission in the navy. He was an engineer on thegun boat, Ottawa, Du Fonts squadron, and on his first voj^age contracted thedisease from which he died. He was at the taking of Beaufort, S. C, theonly important service in which he shared; was confined in the New YorkNaval Hospital 1862-63. He was not married, and is survived by a sister, Seymour Edgerton of Middlebury, COMMODORE WASHINGTON ROMEYN VERMILYE. Washington R. Vermilye, son of Washington Romeyn Vermilye, thefounder of the famous W. R. Vermihe Banking Co., and colonel of the 7thNew York Regiment during the Civil War, was born in New York City April3, 1837. He attended the schools of his city and finished his preparations forcollege at the Betts School Stamford, Conn. He entered the Universityin 1852, and remained two years. He then traveled in Europe until the spring of 1855, when he entered hisfathers banking house. Not finding the work congenial, he gave it up andengaged in Civil Engineering. He was an assistant engineer on the Erie Canalenlargement, 1855-56; Chesapeake and Albermarle Canal, 1856-58, with head-quarters in Great Bridge, Virginia. During the CiAdl War, he served as cor- 1855] SKETCHES OF ALUMNI AND PAST CADETS. 573 poral in the famous 7th New York Regiment. In 1865, he located in Galena,111., an
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