Biographical Sketch of

Merton Eugene Seymour

Transcribed by Jaimee Hedlund

Source: Memorial and Biographical Record and Illustrated Compendium of Biography of Citizens of Columbia, 
Sauk and Adams Counties, Wisconsin, published 1901 by G. A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1901, Page 235

Merton Eugene Seymour, a practical and progressive farmer of Dellona Township, Sauk County, who is meeting 
with marked success, in the prosecution of his chosen calling, is proud to claim Wisconsin as his native state, 
his birth having occurred upon his present farm, Decmeber 1, 1858. He is a son of Hon. S.J. Seymour, of whom 
extended notice appears elswhere in this volume.
 
After leaving the district school, our subject attended the Reedsburg High School, from which he was graduated 
in 1881, and a few years later he took a short agricultural course at the Wisconsin University, being a member 
of the first class to pursue that course.  He afterward spent some months in California and five years previous 
was for a time with his brother, Walter F. Seymour, at the Jackson Sanitarium in Dansville, New York.
 
In 1887 Mr. Seymour took charge of the homestead farm, which he purchased five years later and which he has 
since sucessfully conducted.  By his education and previous training he was well fitted for the occupation he 
has chosen as a life work and prosperity has crowned his well-direct efforts.  He devotes the greater part of 
his time and attention to the live stock and dairy business and makes a specialty of the raising of high-grade 
short horn cattle and Poland China hogs.  His farm consists of two hundred and five acres with first class 
improvements and conveniences, and as a progressive and enterprising agriculturist he takes an active interest 
in promoting improvements in the agricultural methods of that county, and had become a prominent and influential 
member of the farmers institutes and similar societies.  He is also interested in horticulture and has often 
been an exhibitor at the Saulk County fair, where he has won many premiums.
 
On the 23rd of March 1898, Mr. Seymour married Miss Blanche Jeffries, of Baraboo, who was born in Kilbourn City, 
Wisconsin and is the daughter of William and Nellie Jeffries.  For a number of years he has been a elder in the 
Presbyterian Church of Reedsburg, of which he is an active and prominent member.  In politics he has been a 
lifelong Republican, has frequently served as delegate to the county conventions and took the census of Dellona 
in 1890.


Transcribed by Jaimee Hedlund






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