Person:Horace Seaver (6)

CENSUS RECORDS:

In the 1860 census, the William Seaver houserhold in Boston 9th ward includes William (age 47, real property $3000, born MA), Lydia (age 39, born ME), Horace (age 49, editor, born MA), and Hannah (age 82, born MA). [LDS Microfilm 0,853,522, page 784, house 407, family 584 and 585].

OBITUARY:

An obitaury notice was published in the New York Times, dated 22 August 1889. It reads:

“OBITUARY NOTES. Horace Seaver, editor of the Investigator, died yesterday afternoon in Boston. He was born in Boston in 1810, and his connection with the Investigator dates from 1837, when he contributed to that paper a series of articles that attracted wide attention. In 1838 he became editor of the paper and Josiah P. Mendum proprietor, a partnership which had existed uninterruptedly for fifty-one years. Mr. Seaver devoted a great deal of time to lecturing, his chief theme being "Free Thought." He was a great anti-slavery man, and was a warm friend of Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, and William Lloyd Garrison.”