Background
He was born in 1854 in Cayuga County, New York, United States. His parents, Andrew Milliken and Louisa Maria (Goodyear) Seymour soon removed to the state of Wisconsin.
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He was born in 1854 in Cayuga County, New York, United States. His parents, Andrew Milliken and Louisa Maria (Goodyear) Seymour soon removed to the state of Wisconsin.
The boy received his early education in the public schools of Racine.
After serving an apprenticeship in Racine as a printer, he served as a reporter, city editor, and news editor of the Milwaukee Daily News. While connected with the Milwaukee Daily News his work attracted the attention of Wilbur Storey, who offered him a position with the Chicago Times, then a radical Democratic newspaper.
From 1875 until 1879 Seymour was telegraph editor, and from the latter date until 1883 he served as night editor of the Storey paper. While on the Chicago Times he wrote the headline "Jerked to Jesus" concerning the hanging of a religiously fanatical negro. Severing his connection with the Times he immediately became connected with the Chicago Herald and held the position of editor and managing editor until 1895.
Seymour's editorials gave him distinction as an expert on the tariff. In all his works he advanced the doctrine of competitive tariffs and advocated revision downward. In 1895 he became editor and publisher of the Chicago Chronicle, owned by John R. Walsh, with which he remained until 1907.
In 1907 with the crash of several of Walsh's banks, owing to the panic, the Chronicle was suspended, and Seymour went to New York City as editorial writer and supervisor of the World. He served for ten months as editor of the St. Louis Republic, and then returned in 1912 as editorial contributor for the World.
He died in New York City.
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He was active in attacking the hard money and high tariff policies of the Republican party.
Among his colleagues he was noted for his new and startling use of headlines, a feature that found its way into many papers throughout the nation.
He married Annie E. Jones in 1876.