George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer of New Haven, was born in Bristol, Connecticut, October 6, 1859, a son of Henry Albert and Electa (Churchill) Seymour. The ancestral line is traced back to Richard Seamer or Semer, who was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, and other lines bring them into connection with the Churchill, Wells, Wolcott, Appleton, Spencer, Willard, Kellogg and Treat families.

  George D. Seymour was a pupil in the graded schools of Bristol, Connecticut, and afterward was graduated from the high school of Hartford, Connecticut, with the class of 1878. He won the LL. B. degree at Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1880 and the following year the Master of Law degree was conferred upon him. In 1913 he received from Yale the honorary Master of Arts degree. He has practiced continuously at New Haven since 1883 and is a member of the firm of Seymour & Earle, in which connection he specializes in patent cases.

  Mr. Seymour has also been active in advancing municipal improvements and is a recognized patron of the fine arts. He is secretary of the New Haven commission on the city plan, a member of the New Haven city improvement committee and secretary of the committee having in charge the erection of the new public library. His identification with many societies of varied character shows the breadth of his interests. He is connected with the Sons of the American Revolution, the Connecticut Society of Colonials Wars, is corresponding member of the A. I. A., is a trustee of the Henry Whitfield House museum of Guilford, Connecticut, is a member of the state commission on sculpture in Connecticut, is a director of the Donald G. Mitchell Memorial Library at Westville, Connecticut, a director of the American Federation of Arts and in 1914 he purchased the birthplace of Nathan Hale in order to preserve it as a permanent memorial to the youthful hero of the Revolutionary war.

  In his political views Mr. Seymour is a republican and his religious faith is that of the Congregational church. In club circles he is well known as a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven, the Century Club of New York and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.

  His authorship has also made him widely known, his published writings including “The Familiar Hale,” “The Old Time Game of Wicket,” and many contributions to magazines on municipal improvements, architecture and sculpture. He is greatly interested in early colonial houses and the furniture of that period and has a large collection of New England oak furniture. He has greatly enjoyed antiquarian research and turns to travel for recreation. He makes his home in New Haven and also has a country home called “The Birth Place” in South Coventry, Connecticut.