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Woodhull, Maxwell van Zandt ()

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He was a naval officer who was promoted to Commander in 1861. He served in the Coast Guard and the Navy where he was responsible for performing coast surveys for New York and New England. He was accidentally killed by a gun firing off salutes in 1863. The Seward family lived in the house Woodhull built in Washington, DC from 1855 to 1858.

Letter References

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, April 1, 1858

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, February 14, 1857

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Augustus Henry Seward, March 30, 1856

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, February 1856

Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Maria Worden, November 29, 1858

Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to Sarah D. Hance, December 4, 1858

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Biography: 
He was a naval officer who was promoted to Commander in 1861. He served in the Coast Guard and the Navy where he was responsible for performing coast surveys for New York and New England. He was accidentally killed by a gun firing off salutes in 1863. The Seward family lived in the house Woodhull built in Washington, DC from 1855 to 1858.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12099399/maxwell-woodhull
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Find a Grave MEMORIAL ID 12099399
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BURIAL Trinity Churchyard Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA PLOT Section N7 Northside - Hugh Maxwell Family Vault
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https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Rwe37&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&qh=MKPKH6fph2l1dJ5en5tNmw%3D%3D&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=maxwell&gsfn_x=1&gsln=woodhull&gsln_x=1&msbdy_x=1&msbdy=1813&catbucket=rstp&MSAV=0&uidh
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Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889
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Source Citation Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography; Volume: Vol. VI Source Information Ancestry.com. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.