Robert Seton (August 28, 1839 – March 22, 1927) was a descendant of the New York "aristocratic" Seton and Bayley families, Seton was also a

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in the

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and

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of Heliopolis.

Biography

Robert Seton was born in

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, Italy on August 28, 1839, one of nine children of William and Emily Prime Seton, seven of whom survived to adulthood. He was a grandson of Saint

Elizabeth Ann Seton Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was a Catholic religious sister in the United States and an educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. After her death, she became the first person bo ...

, nephew of Mother Mary Catherine Seton, RSM, and cousin of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley. Robert grew up at "The Cedars", an estate in the Edenwald section of

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which his grandfather, banker

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