Mary C. Seward
Poet, Deceased Person
1839 – 1919
Who was Mary C. Seward?
Mary Holden Coggeshall Seward, commonly known as Mary C. Seward, was an American poet, composer, and prominent parliamentarian serving humanitarian and woman's club movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A number of her works were published under the pseudonym "Agnes Burney", including several developed in collaboration with her spouse, Theodore F. Seward, an internationally known composer and music educator in his day. She became a groundbreaking advocate for the care and education of blind babies and young children during her later years, serving as president of the department for the blind of the International Sunshine Society.
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- Born
- Jul 9, 1839
New London - Also known as
- Mary Seward
- Spouses
- Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward
(1860/06/12 - 1902/08/30)
- Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward
- Religion
- Christian Science
- Congregational church
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 1, 1919
Buffalo
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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