Clarence Seamans
Clarence Walker Seamans (June 5, 1854 – May 30, 1915) was an American
History
Early life
Seamans was born June 5, 1854, in Ilion, New York to Abner Clark Seamans and Caroline Matilda Williams.[2] Seamans began work as a clerk at E. Remington and Sons, the firm at which his father was a purchasing agent, at the age of fifteen.[Note 1] In 1875, he began a three-year stint of overseeing a silver mine in Bingham Canyon, Utah. Upon returning to the state of New York, Seamans became a bookkeeper and salesman at Fairbanks & Company, a scale manufacturer. Fairbanks had become the sole marketer of the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, produced by Seaman's former employer, E. Remington and Sons. After 1879, Seamans lived in Brooklyn with his wife Ida Gertrude Watson and their two daughters, Mabel and Dorothy.[3][4]
Involvement with the Remington typewriter
In 1881, marketing of the typewriter returned to Remington. Seamans had been a "star typewriter salesman" and was retained and made manager of sales.
Seamans died at his summer home in
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References
Bibliography
- Homans, James E., ed. (1918). . The Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc. pp. 517–518.
- Ingham, John N. (1983). Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-21362-3
- King, Moses (1899). Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899'. New York: Bartlett & Company
- Leonard, John W., et al. (1909). Who's Who in New York City and State. 4. New York: L.R. Hamersly Company
- Masi, Frank T. (1985). The Typewriter Legend. Secaucas: Matsushita Electric Corporation of America. ISBN 0-9614386-0-6