SEAMAN JOHN (son of Jasper Seaman and Dyan Reed of Ithaca, N. Y.). Born Dec. 18, 1832, Ithaca. Came to Utah Aug. 4, 1854, Bartlett Brown company.

Married Susannah Stevens Brown April 4, 1855, Salt Lake City (daughter of Bartlett Brown and Joanna Austin Leach of Centerville, Utah). She was born April 15, 1938, and died April 22, 1913, at Ogden. Their children: Mary Susannah, m. Charles W. Taggart; John William, d. March 10, 1863 Andrew Jerome, d. Oct. 11, 1864; Joanna Dyan, m. Wiley G. Cragun; George Alexander, m. Charlotte J. Fox; Harriet Josephine.

Pioneer in Morgan county in 1862 Member 6th quorum seventies; missionary to New York 1876-77; presiding elder at Richville: second counselor in bishopric of Pleasant View ward. School superintendent Morgan county; assessor and collector of Morgan county 1875-76; county commissioner of Weber county 1897-98; justice of peace, Canyon Creek precinct: school trustee at Richville and Pleasant View; state senator from Weber and Box Elder counties
1894. Farmer and lumber merchant.