Samuel Augustus Seabring, M.D., was born in the town of Newfield, Tompkins county, on the 14th of March, 1846. He was a son of Cornelius H. and Susan J. (Jackson) Seabring. Cornelius H. Seabring was also a native of Newfield, a respected farmer of that town, and son of Samuel, who came with his father (whose name was Cornelius) from Pennsylvania, as one of the early settlers of Newfield. Susan J. Jackson was born in Newfield, Tompkins county, in 1818, her parents, Eldad and Olive Lawrence, having removed there from Meredith, Delaware county, in 1810. Besides Samuel Augustus, Cornelius had a daughter by his first marriage, who is deceased, and a living daughter by his second marriage. The early education of Samuel Augustus Seabring was obtained at the district schools and continued in the well known seminaries of Lima and Cazenovia. At the close of his educational period he began teaching in Newfield.. He afterwards taught in the town of Enfield, and for two years was principal of the Trumansburgh Union School. At the end of this period he began his professional studies in the Michigan University Medical College at Ann Harbor, and later on attended the Long Island College Hospital, from which he graduated in 1871. He then entered upon his professional career in his native town, where he continued until his death. On the 3d of January, 1827, Dr. Seabring married to Margaret Cora Kinney, daughter of J. O. Kinney, a well known citizen of Westmoreland, Oneida county, a son of John Kinney, one of the early settlers of that county. The professional career of Dr. Seabring extended over a period of twenty years, and was an eminently successful one in every respect. His natural qualifications, as well as his acquired attributes as a physician, were such as to insure that success which usually follows earnestness of purpose and personal adaptability to any calling. Tenderhearted, modest, gentle with the suffering, and with that clear headed judgement which enables the physician to successfully diagnose disease, he won not only a large circle of business, but a wide circle of friends, who placed in him the utmost confidence and felt for him the utmost regard. Dr. Seabring was not only a successful practitioner; his interest in public affairs was ever broad and active, and his desire to benefit his fellows was unselfish and continuous. A Democrat in politics, living in a town containing a large majority of Republicans, his fellow citizens evinced their confidence in him by electing him to the office of supervisor of his town in 1888, by the narrow majority of fifteen votes. In the following year he was again chosen to the same office by the increased majority of seventy votes, to be succeeded in 1890 by a majority of 128. Again nominated in 1891 he received a majority of 155, notwithstanding the fact that the Republicans placed in nomination one of their most prominent men and made a determined effort to procure his election. Dr. Seabring was not a politician in the ordinary sense of the word. He would not descend to any of the customary methods to secure preferment; his strength lay in his clearly expressed intention of serving his fellow citizens to the best of his ability and according to the dictates of his own conscience, without reference to consequences to himself. His judgement in public affairs was excellent, and he never lacked courage to act upon his convictions; while his fidelity inspired confidence in others. Dr. Seabring was an honorable member of the Tompkins County Medical Society, and the following resolutions adopted soon after his death show the esteem in which he was held by his fellow members: Resolved, That it is with profound sorrow that this society has to record the death, since its last meeting, of Dr. Samuel A. Seabring, of Newfield. Resolved, That in Dr. Seabring this society loses an old and valued member. For twenty years in active practice in the same community, he commanded its confidence and love, and was often called by it to positions of honor and responsibility. His loss, as the trusted physician, counselor, and citizen, will be widely and deeply felt. Dr. Seabring's death, from pneumonia, occurred on the 20th of April, 1891, while he was in the midst of his usefulness. He is survived by his widow and his son, Cornelius O., who reside in Ithaca.