[1][2][3] She was appointed as the first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners by President Warren G.

[6] She married writer George Steele Seymour in 1915, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in the same year.

She was admitted to the practice of law before the United States Supreme Court in 1919.

With her husband she helped found the Order of Bookfellows - a Chicago-based literary society- and then served as its executive head.

[8] Most of Seymour's published books were historical and dealt with Native Americans or frontiersmen.