Joseph Seaver

Joseph W. Seaver (July 23, 1793 – August 1, 1864) was an American farmer from Darien, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term (1853) as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Walworth County.^[1]

Background

Seaver married Mary Long, and the couple had seven children in Genesee County, New York before moving to Walworth County in October 1840. Mary Long Seaver died in August 1850.^[2]

At the time of his legislative service, Seaver listed himself as a farmer, 59 years of age, a native of Massachusetts, who had been in Wisconsin for 12 years.

Public office

Seaver was elected Clerk of the first Town meeting of Darien, and would continue to be elected to various Town offices through 1857, along with a number of other Seavers whose exact relationship to Joseph is unknown.

He was elected for the 1853 session from a district which encompassed the Towns of Darien, Delavan and Sharon. He served on the standing committees on town and county organization, and on charitable and religious societies.^[3] He was succeeded in 1854 by William P. Allen, a Whig.

Death

Seaver died August 1, 1864, "AGED 71 Yrs. & 9 Ds.", according to his tombstone^[4] and is buried in Darien Cemetery.^[5]

References

^ "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 105 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ History of Walworth County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1882; p. 750
^ Manual for the use of the assembly, of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1853 Madison: Brown and Carpenter, Printers, 1853; pp. 71, 84, 109, 110, *99
^ Image of Seaver's tombstone
^ List of burials in Darien Cemetery, Walworth County, Wisconsin

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[1] "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 105 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[2] History of Walworth County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1882; p. 750

[3] Manual for the use of the assembly, of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1853 Madison: Brown and Carpenter, Printers, 1853; pp. 71, 84, 109, 110, *99

[4] Image of Seaver's tombstone

[5] List of burials in Darien Cemetery, Walworth County, Wisconsin

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