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Line 1: '''James Madison Seymour''' (January 30, 1837 – April 1, 1905) was the [[Mayor of Newark, New Jersey]] from January 1, 1896 to January 1, 1903.<ref>{{cite news\|first=\|last=\|title=Henry M. Doremus Sworn In by His Predecessor\|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B04E1DC1030E733A25751C0A9679C946297D6CF\|format=[[PDF]]\|accessdate=December 28, 2009\|quote=Mayor Henry M. Doremus was inducted into office at noon to-day. The oath was administered by the retiring Mayor, James M. Seymour ...\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|publisher=[[The New York Times]]\|date=January 2, 1903}}</ref> Seymour was born in 1837 in [[New York City]]. He married Amanda Elizabeth Crowell in 1859, and they had one son, James Murray Seymour. After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Anna J. Crowell, and the couple also had one son, David C. Seymour.<ref name=NJHS/> Seymour died in 1905 at his Newark home at the age of 68.<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E0DE0D91738EF32A25751C0A9629C946497D6CF\|format=[[PDF]]\|accessdate=December 28, 2009\|title=Death list of a day\|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]\|publisher=[[The New York Times]]\|date=April 2, 1905}}</ref> At the age of two, Seymour's father died in a [[yellow fever]] epidemic in [[New Orleans]]. His mother remarried Jose Vantana, and the family went to reside in Spain. Seymour attended St. Austin's College in [[Cádiz]].<ref name=NJHS>{{Cite book\|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YiIUAAAAYAAJ\|accessdate=December 28, 2009\|title=Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society\|series=3\|volume=5\|year=1909\|pages=95–96}}</ref> At the age of 17 he began an apprenticeship at Novelty Iron Works of New York and was subsequently employed by the [[Erie Railroad]]. When he was 21 he was appointed master mechanic of a railroad from [[Matanzas]] to Puerto Príncipe in [[Cuba]], and later worked for two years as chief engineer of a large Cuban sugar plantation.<ref name=NJHS/>

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