Frederic Kimber Seward


Frederic Kimber Seward, Sr. was a prominent corporate lawyer in New York City. He was a passenger on the RMS Titanic, and later chaired a survivors committee that honored the rescue ship RMS Carpathia.

Seward was born on March 23, 1878 in Wilmington, Delaware, the son of Reverend Samuel S. Seward II and Christina Kimber. He had a brother, John Perry Seward, a homeopathic physician. He graduated from Columbia University in 1899 and was a member of its Glee Club. He had three children Frederick Kimber Seward, Jr. Katharine Seward and Samuel S. Seward III . In 1908 he started work at the law firm of Curtis, Mallet, Prevot amp Colt in New York City. He served on the Board of Trustees of George Gustav Heyes Museum of the American Indian starting in 1916. During World War II he served on New York Citys wartime rationing board.

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