Strangers – Today

W. B. Post

W. B. Post was a visitor from New York. Documents show that he was the president of the Long Island Railroad Company in the late 1830s. The Record of Strangers indicates that Mr. Post visited the Athenaeum on multiple occasions.

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Englesbe Seon

Englesbe Seon was a visitor from Bermuda some time between Apr 28, 1817 and July 14, 1817. There are a number of pages in the Record of Strangers during that period that lack precise dates. He was introduced by Sansom Perot. Members Charles, Edward, Joseph, and Sansom Perot introduced a number of strangers from Bermuda to the Athenaeum in the nineteenth century. The Record shows a visit by Mr. E. Seon of Bermuda in 1827, who may be the same person.

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Richard Henry Bayard, September 26, 1796 — March 4, 1868

Richard Henry Bayard was an American politician and diplomat. He graduated from Princeton and studied law before establishing his practice in Wilmington, Delaware. Bayard entered politics as Wilmington's first mayor in 1832. In 1836, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, serving until 1839, when he resigned to become chief justice of Delaware. He resigned from this post in 1841 to return to the Senate, where he stayed until 1845. Bayard would later serve as the U.S. chargé d'affaires to Belgium from 1850 to 1853. The Record of Strangers indicates that Bayard visited the Athenaeum on multiple occasions, during both of his Senate terms, and while he was chief justice of Delaware.

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