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"The Sewards of New York" - Linda Anderson - 10-21-2025 10:58 PM
Forum member Thomas P. Slaughter, director of the Seward Family Digital Archive Project, has published a book on the Seward family. He said in an interview that "the Seward family’s story is really two stories. The first ends in 1860 when William H. Seward fails to receive the Republican Party nomination for President as the family and many others had assumed. The second, which I will tell in a second book, is about the family largely in Washington, D. C. during the Civil War, when there is an attempt to assassinate Seward on the same night that Lincoln is killed and Seward’s wife and daughter die shortly thereafter, victims of the attack on him."
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/digital-history-emotional-truth/
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501782657/the-sewards-of-new-york/
Dr. Slaughter will be giving a talk at the Seward Museum in Auburn, NY on October 23rd.
https://www.facebook.com/SewardHouseMuseum/posts/get-ready-to-learn-some-seward-family-secrets-during-our-next-book-talk-dr-thoma/1372976011498101/