Joseph Seaver

Joseph W. Seaver (July 23, 1793 – August 1, 1864) was an American farmer from Darien, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term (1853) as a Free Soil Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Walworth County.^[1]

Background[edit]

Seaver married Mary Long, and the couple had seven children in Genesee County, New York before moving to Walworth County in October 1840. Mary Long Seaver died in August 1850.^[2]

At the time of his legislative service, Seaver listed himself as a farmer, 59 years of age, a native of Massachusetts, who had been in Wisconsin for 12 years.

Public office[edit]

Seaver was elected Clerk of the first Town meeting of Darien, and would continue to be elected to various Town offices through 1857, along with a number of other Seavers whose exact relationship to Joseph is unknown.

He was elected for the 1853 session from a district which encompassed the Towns of Darien, Delavan and Sharon. He served on the standing committees on town and county organization, and on charitable and religious societies.^[3] He was succeeded in 1854 by William P. Allen, a Whig.

Death[edit]

Seaver died August 1, 1864, "AGED 71 Yrs. & 9 Ds.", according to his tombstone^[4] and is buried in Darien Cemetery.^[5]

References[edit]

^ "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 105 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
^ History of Walworth County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1882; p. 750
^ Manual for the use of the assembly, of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1853 Madison: Brown and Carpenter, Printers, 1853; pp. 71, 84, 109, 110, *99
^ Image of Seaver's tombstone
^ List of burials in Darien Cemetery, Walworth County, Wisconsin

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[1] "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 State of Wisconsin Legislative Bureau. Information Bulletin 99-1, September 1999. p. 105 Archived December 9, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

[2] History of Walworth County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; an Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of Its Laws and Constitution and the Constitution of the United States Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1882; p. 750

[3] Manual for the use of the assembly, of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1853 Madison: Brown and Carpenter, Printers, 1853; pp. 71, 84, 109, 110, *99

[4] Image of Seaver's tombstone

[5] List of burials in Darien Cemetery, Walworth County, Wisconsin

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