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Olive Risley Seward (July 15, 1844 – November 27, 1908) was a writer and the adopted daughter of William Henry Seward, United States Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
19 de ago. de 2013 · Olive Risley-Seward was a travel writer and author who became the traveling companion of William H. Seward, the U.S. Secretary of State, in 1870. She was his adoptive daughter, co-heir, and editor of his best-selling book "Travels Around the World". Learn about her life, death, and legacy from this web page.
Biography. Author, Editor, noted adoptee. A travel writer and author of children's stories in her later life, the youthful Olive Risley shocked American society of the late 1860's by becoming the traveling companion of celebrated statesman William H. Seward.
Olive Risley Seward is a lead on burlap statue by American sculptor John Cavanaugh, located at North Carolina Avenue and Sixth Street, Southeast, Washington, D.C., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Completed in 1971, it is a representation of Olive Risley Seward (1841–1908), the foster daughter of William H. Seward .
Olive Risley was a mildly pretty girl of no more than average mentality. Seward found her interesting, and Olive devoted herself to pleasing her famous admirer. He believed that her mind was capable of real development, and seems to have regarded her as a substitute for the daughter he had lost.
Unsurprisingly, tongues were set a-wagging, and Seward decided that the best way to still them was to adopt Risley. For the next couple of years, until Seward’s death in 1872, Risley accompanied Seward everywhere, and assisted in writing a book of his travels around the world. She outlived her adoptive father by some 35 years, dying in 1908.
Sculpture of Olive Risley Seward adjacent to Seward Square as seen from the southeast corner of 6th Street and North Carolina Avenue. Seward Square is a square and park maintained by the National Park Service located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and North Carolina Avenue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Southeast ...
