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He was born on January 25, 1835 in Florida, New York, United States, the son of Israel and Mary (Johnson) Seward. He was a great-grandson of Col. John Seward of the American Revolution. He spent his early boyhood in Florida.
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He was born on January 25, 1835 in Florida, New York, United States, the son of Israel and Mary (Johnson) Seward. He was a great-grandson of Col. John Seward of the American Revolution. He spent his early boyhood in Florida.
He received his first education at Seward Institute, founded by his great-uncle, Samuel S. Seward. Later he went to Boston, where he studied music with Lowell Mason, George Frederick Root, and Thomas Hastings, 1784-1872.
He was organist and teacher at New London, Connecticut, from 1857 to 1859. He was in Rochester, New York, until 1862, when he went to New York City and established headquarters for his editorial and literary work. He taught for a time at Teachers College (later merged with Columbia University), was editor of the Musical Pioneer from 1864, of the Musical Gazette from 1867, and of the Tonic Sol-Fa Advocate from 1881 to 1886 when it was superseded by the Musical Reform of which he was editor until 1888.
He moved to Orange, New Jersey, in 1868 and later to his permanent residence in East Orange. From 1870 he was music director of the public schools of East Orange and organist at the North Orange Baptist Church and the Brick Presbyterian Church of East Orange.
About 1869 he became interested in the singing of Negroes, and was musical director of the second European tour of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, editing and arranging a collection of Jubilee Songs (1872). During his European trip Seward was much impressed with the English Tonic Sol-Fa system, and he became its principal advocate in the United States.
He published two treaties on the subject - The Tonic Sol-Fa Music Reader (1880), and A Revolution in Music Teaching (1888). He edited a number of song and hymn collections, among them The Temple Choir (1867), The Coronation (1872), and The Vineyard of Song (1874). With Lowell Mason he was the author of The Pestalozzian Music Teacher (1871).
He died at the home of his daughter in East Orange, New Jersey.
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He married to Mary Holden Coggeshall on June 12, 1860. He had 3 children.