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EZRA K. SEGUINE
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EZRA K. SEGUINE, a prominent lawyer and citizen of Jersey City, was
born at Delaware Water Gap, Slateford, Pa., on the 18th of November,
1858. He descends from a Huguenot family who settled at Seguine's
Point. Staten Island, on their arrival from France, and who represented
all that is good in French social life. He is the son of William P. and
Sarah E. (Kennedy) Seguine, a grandson of Jacob and Martha (Ward)
Seguine and of Charles and Martha (Twining) Kennedy, and a great-grandson
of Jacob Seguine, Sr. Mr. Seguine was educated in the local schools of his native town and at Mt. Dolia Academy in Glen Gardner, N. J., and at an early age entered mercantile life in New York City. Subsequently he read law in the office of Charles E. Scofield, of Jersey City, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in November, 1879. After the death of Mr. Scofield in 1878 Mr. Seguine closed out his extensive bankruptcy practice, and since his admission to the bar in the following year has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of law in Jersey City. In addition to his extensive law business in all the courts of the State he is interested in iron and coal mining properties in Eastern Tennessee and is the head of the Seguine-Axford Veneer Company of Jersey City and Harriman, Tenn. Both as a lawyer and business man he has gained a high reputation. Mr. Seguine was married, July 30, 1884, to Emma C. Small, daughter of John Small, of Jersey City, who was for many years prominently identified with the Morris Canal in New Jersey. They have two children 7: Charlotte and Maude.
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