sentences:  Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1833, commencing practice in Hartford.A judge of probate from 1836 to 1838, Seymour was also Editor of the "Jeffersonian" from 1837 to 1838.