Clarence Walker Seamans

Background

Seamans was born June 5, 1854 in Ilion, New York to Abner Clark Seamans and Caroline Matilda Williams. Seamans began work as a clerk at E. Remington and Sons, the firm at which his father was a purchasing agent, at the age of fifteen.

Education

Educational public schools, Ilion.

Career

In 1875, he began a three year stint of overseeing a silver mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah. Upon returning to the state of New York, Seamans became a bookkeeper and salesman at Fairbanks & Company, a scale manufacturer. Involvement with the Remington typewriter

In 1881, marketing of the typewriter returned to Remington.

Seamans had been a "star typewriter salesman" and was retained and made manager of sales.

The following year, Seamans partnered with Harry H. Benedict, a Remington director, and William O. Wyckoff, a Remington sales agent, to form the firm of Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict. In 1886, Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict purchased the typewriter business from Remington and, in 1892, formed the Remington Standard Typewriter Company with Seamans as the treasurer and general manager.

A year later, Seamans was made president of the Union Typewriter Company, a trust formed from the merger of Remington Standard with several prominent typewriter manufacturers. Seamans presided over the acquisition of the Wahl Adding Machine Company, which made Union the world"s largest typewriter company.

Seamans remained president until being elected to chairman of the board in 1913.

During this time, Seamans held a director position at several trust companies and an insurance company. Seamans died at his summer home in Pigeon Cove, Massachusetts on May 30, 1915.

Achievements

• Clarence Walker Seamans has been listed as a noteworthy manufacturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Gertrude Watson, February 20, 1879.

Father:

Abner Clark Seamans

Mother:

Caroline (Williams) Seamans

Spouse:

Gertrude Watson