Seaman Family History & Genealogy

Susanna (Seaman) Rounds was born on August 16, 1723 in Swansea, Massachusetts United States, and died at age 64 years old on June 13, 1788 in Foster, RI. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Susanna (Seaman) Rounds.

Robert Livingston Seaman Birthdate: 1822 (82) Birthplace: Catskill, Greene, New York, United States Death: March 11, 1904 (82) Immediate Family: Son of William Seaman; William Seaman; Ellen Seaman and Ellen Seaman Husband of "Nellie Bly"/Elizabeth Jane Cochrane Managed by: Carolyn Marlene Caldwell Last Updated: December 6, 2016 Robert Seaman Connected to: Nellie BlyEmbezzlementGreene County, New York From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Robert Seaman Born 1822 Catskill, New York, U.S. Died March 11, 1904 (aged 81–82) U.S. Occupation Industrialist Spouse(s) Nellie Bly (1895–1904, his death) Robert Livingston Seaman (1822 – March 11, 1904) was an American industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran (better known as Nellie Bly). Born in Catskill, Greene County, New York to William and Ellen Seaman, Robert made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business and in 1869 started the Ironclad Manufacturing Company, manufacturing cans for shipping milk on trains, riveted boilers, tanks, and “The Most Durable Enameled Kitchen Ware Made.” Marriage to Elizabeth Cochran In March 1895, Seaman met journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran at a dinner party, or on a train,[1] and on April 5, 1895 married her. An article announcing their marriage called him one of the most carefully dressed men in New York. Seaman's loved ones were suspicious, sure that she had married him for his money. One magazine even wondered if it was an example of her "stunt reporting" in which Nellie would pretend to be married and then write about it. After their marriage, they resided in his home on West 37th Street in New York City. In 1896, they traveled to Europe, returning to New York in 1899 to take care of problems with his business. Death On February 6, 1904, Seaman was struck by a horse and wagon while crossing a street and on March 11, 1904, he died of heart disease brought on by his injuries . Seaman's business prospered during his lifetime and for a number of years after his death under his wife's management. At the 1901 Pan-American Exposition, Iron Clad factories were promoted as being, “Owned exclusively by Nellie Bly – the only woman in the world personally managing industries of such a magnitude.” After his death in 1904, his wife became the energetic and innovative president of his Iron Clad Manufacturing Company. Later, however, embezzlement on the part of employees destroyed the company. At its peak, Iron Clad employed 1,500 and could produce 1,000 steel barrels daily, but then charges of fraud led to bitterly contested bankruptcy proceedings, beginning in 1911. The Iron Clad Manufacturing Company eventually succumbed to debt, and Bly returned to newspaper reporting, covering women's suffrage events and Europe's Eastern Front during the war.

James Seaman of VIC Australia was born in 1828 at Gibraltar, in Salamanca, Salamanca County, CL Spain. He was married to Margaret Barron Seaman, and had children Margaret Jane (Seaman) Moore, Elizabeth Seaman, and Thomas Seaman. James Seaman died at age 46 years old on April 20, 1875 in VIC Australia.

Margaret (Barron) Seaman of Stawell, Northern Grampians Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1831 in Durham, County Durham County, England United Kingdom, and died at age 75 years old on September 2, 1907 in Stawell, Northern Grampians Shire County, VIC Australia.

Lorinda B. (Seaman) Smith was born in August 1837, and died at age 86 years old in 1923. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lorinda B. (Seaman) Smith.

Fanny wed on Oct.4,1876 in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. to Stephen Leek and had 2 children.

Like wise with her husband Elias, the exact date when Josephine passed away is unknown, sometime after 1910. She wed about 1878 in Islip, N.Y. and had 3 children. Two of then died young before 1886 and had no known 1st name. Just one of them lived long enough to have a 1st name, but he died before 1890.

Nellie Bly, Journalist, Dies of Pneumonia By THE NEW YORK TIMES Mrs. Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, known to thousands of people throughout the world as Nellie Bly, her nom de plume, died yesterday morning of pneumonia at the age of 57 in St. Mark's Hospital, to which she was removed a few days ago from her rooms in the Hotel McAlpin. Services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street. Friends may view the body today at the funeral parlors of Herbert H. Baxter, 597 Lexington Avenue. Born at Cochrane's Mills, Pa., a town founded by her father, Judge Cochrane, Elizabeth Cochrane found herself penniless when still in her teens and began her journalistic career writing for a Pittsburgh paper at $5 a week. Later she reached a high water mark of $25,000 earned with her pen in one year. She went down into the sea in a diving bell and up in the air in a balloon and lived in an insane asylum as a patient; but the feat that made her famous was her trip around the world in 1889. She was sent by The World to beat the mark of Phileas Fogg, Jules Verne's hero of "Around the World in Eighty Days," and she succeeded, making the tour in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes. Every one who read newspapers followed her progress and she landed in New York a national character. In 1895, she married Robert L. Seaman, forty years her senior, President of the American Steel Barrel Company and the Ironclad Manufacturing Company. They lived happily together at 15 West Thirty-Seventh Street, and on Mr. Seaman's death in 1910 she took entire charge of the properties. Luck turned against her, however, and a series of forgeries by her employees, disputes of various sorts, bankruptcy and a mass of vexations and costly litigations swallowed up Nellie Bly's fortune. Her courage and liveliness remained, however, and she returned to journalism with all her old spirit. At the time of her death she was a member of the staff of The New York Evening Journal.

George Seaman of Rhode Island was born on September 22, 1864, and died at age 99 years old in April 1964.

Margaret Jane (Seaman) Moore of Stawell, Northern Grampians Shire County, VIC Australia was born on April 15, 1867 in Stawell, and died at age 82 years old on March 16, 1950 in Stawell.

Elizabeth Seaman of Rokewood Australia was born in 1869 in Rokewood. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth Seaman.

Mary Seaman of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA was born on October 31, 1870, and died at age 96 years old in September 1967.