As delighted as he was to spend years sifting through old letters and other documents to tell the story of William Henry Seward, author Walter Stahr does have at least one regret. "I would give a ...

SCHENECTADY — Nearly two centuries after he graduated from Union College in 1820, William Henry Seward is having quite a moment. President Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state is the subject of ...

A NEW generation has come upon the stage since William H. Seward, past seventy years old, a battered, exhausted, outworn statesman, died in 1872. Men are yet living who were his junior associates ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. First as governor of New York (1839–43) and later as a U.S. senator (1849–61), William H. Seward advocated strongly ...

William Henry and Frances Seward hosted parties and entertained such dignitaries as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster at their Auburn home in the mid-19th century.

A brief telegram announces the death of Ex-Gov. William H. Seward, yesterday afternoon, at his residence in Auburn. The sad event was not wholly unexpected, as Mr. Seward had been in feeble health ...

William Henry Seward promoted and succeeded in getting the United States to purchase Russian claims to and interests in Alaska. To recognize his efforts, statues have been funded by private ...

Who was William Henry Seward? Why was he a target for Booth and other assassins? Born in rural New York in 1801, educated as a lawyer, Seward served four years in the state senate and four years ...

The WCNY Vault opens this October with a look at President Lincoln's Secretary of State.

It was at Florida, in that county, that William Henry Seward was born on May 16, 1801. He was frail as a boy and his parents chose him as the son to be favored with a liberal education.

The reason the $200,000 statute happened to make its way through Seward is because it's a statue of the man that Seward was named after, William Henry Seward.

William Henry Seward traveled via rail, stage and steamboat through Michigan, Indiana, Illinois on way to Wisconsin and Minnesota. The group then boarded a steamboat for Dubuque, Iowa. Next, they ...