Thomas Day Seymour

Thomas Day Seymour (April 1, 1848 – December 31, 1907) was an American classical scholar. He received an ad eundem degree from Yale in 1870, and honorary LL.D. degrees from Western Reserve in 1894,

After studying in Berlin and Leipzig and making many visits to Greece,

He was the father of Yale President Charles Seymour, and the great-nephew of Yale President Jeremiah Day.

He married Sarah Melissa Hitchcock (b. Sep. 27, 1846) of Burton, Ohio on July 2, 1874, daughter of Western Reserve College president Rev. Henry L. Hitchcock and granddaughter of Justice Peter Hitchcock. They had three children; Elizabeth Day Seymour (b. Jan 21, 1876) was his eldest daughter, and she married John Angel (sculptor) in 1942. Clara Hitchcock Seymour was born on March 28, 1880, and his youngest child Charles Seymour was born on Jan. 1, 1885. Seymour's published work was largely confined to the study of the Homeric poems, An Introduction to the Language and Verse of Homer (1885) Homer's Iliad, i.-iv. (1887–1890) Homeric Vocabulary (1889) "Carroll Cutler" (1894) Introduction and Vocabulary to School Odyssey (1897) The College Series of Greek Authors, editor with Lewis R Packard and John W White. Plato: Apology of Socrates and Crito (1885) Ginn & Co. "The First Twenty Years of the School At Athens" (1902) Life in the Homeric Age (1907)