Samuel E. Sewall
| Samuel Edmund Sewall | |
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| Born |
November 9, 1799 Boston, U.S. |
| Died | December 20, 1888 (aged 89) Boston, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Harvard College Harvard Law School |
| Spouse(s) | Louisa Winslow (1836-50) Harriet Winslow (1857-88) |
| Children | Lucy Ellen Sewall Louisa Winslow Sewall |
Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799-1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1831, lent his legal expertise to the Underground Railroad, and served a term in the Massachusetts Senate as a Free-Soiler.
Sewall was involved in several notable cases involving refugees from slavery, including George Latimer, Shadrach Minkins, Thomas Sims, Eliza Small, and Polly Ann Bates. He also worked to advance women's legal rights in Massachusetts.
He was a descendant of the Puritan judge Samuel Sewall.
Sewall was born in Boston on November 9, 1799, the seventh of eleven children of Joseph Sewall and Mary (Robie) Sewall. Joseph Sewall, a great-grandson of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, was a partner in a dry goods import business, Sewall & Salisbury, and the treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Of Samuel's siblings, four died in infancy and five more died young, of consumption (tuberculosis). Samuel and his older brother Thomas were the only ones who survived their mother, who died in 1834.
After attending Phillips Exeter Academy, Samuel entered Harvard College at the age of 13, graduating in 1817 near the top of his class. Many of his classmates at Harvard went on to distinguished careers: historian George Bancroft, politicians Caleb Cushing and Samuel A. Eliot, journalist David Lee Child, educators George B. Emerson and Alva Woods, noted clergyman Stephen H. Tyng, and reformer Samuel J. May (Sewall's cousin). In the fall of 1817 he entered the newly established Harvard Law School, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1820.
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