Seamans, Ezra A., was born in East Pembroke, N. Y. July 12, 1849. His father, Charles Seamans, was a native of Woodstock, Conn., and came to Genesee County in 1839, where he was engaged as a shoe manufacturer; he married Hannah, daughter or Ezra Howard. Mr. Seamans helped to build the seminary and gave largely to the Baptist church; he died in 1888. Ezra Seamans was educated in the seminary at East Pembroke, and entered the hardware business in 1873, in which he has continued for twenty-five years. In 1875 he married Esther, daughter of Edward Smith; they have one son, Webb, and one daughter, Leoni.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890