Person:Augustus Seymour (1)

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX S SEYMOUR, Augustus Sherrill, jurist, was born in Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 30, 1836. He was graduated from Hamilton college, LL.B., 1857, and pratised law in New York city, 1859�65, and in New Berne, N.C., 1865-68. In the latter year he was appointed judge of the municipal court of New Berne. He served in the senate and house of representatives of North Carolina, and was a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state in 1871. He was judge of the North Carolina superior court, 1874-82, and of the U.S. district court of eastern North Carolina, 1882-97. He compiled a Digest of the Laws of North Carolina (1878). He died in New York City, Feb. 19, 1897.