Henry J. Seaman

Henry John Seaman was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Biography

He was born on April 16, 1805, in Greenridge, Staten Island. Seaman engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Promoter of Richmond village in 1836.
Seaman was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Twenty-ninth Congress.
He served as director of the Staten Island Railroad in 1851.
Secretary of the Plank Road Co. in 1856.
Constructed the bridge over Fresh Kills.
He died at Marshland, Staten Island on May 3, 1861. He was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City.