SENEY, Joshua, member of the Continental congress, born on the eastern shore of Maryland in 1750" died there in 1799. He was educated by private tutors, engaged in planting, and supported the patriot cause during the Revolution. He was a member of the Continental congress in 1787-'8, and of the 1st congress in 1789, and served by reelection till 1 May, 1792, when he resigned. He was a presidential elector in that year, supporting Washington and Adams. He married Frances, daughter of Commander James Nicholson.--His grandson, George Ingraham, philanthropist, born in Astoria, L. I., 12 May, 1826, is the son of Reverend Robert Seney, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. George was a student in 1845 at Wesleyan, from which he received the degree of A. M. in 1866, was graduated at the University of the city of New York in 1847, entered the banking business, and rose from the post of paying-teller in the Metropolitan bank, New York city, to the presidency of that institution, holding the latter office in 1877-'84, when the bank was suspended and Mr. Seney lost a fortune of several million dollars, a large part of which he has since regained. His contributions to charitable and educational institutions include $410,000 to the Methodist general hospital of Brooklyn, $100,000 to the Long Island historical society, $250,000 to Emory college and Wesleyan female college, Macon, Georgia, and $100,000 to benevolent objects in Brooklyn. He founded the Seney scholarships and largely endowed Wesleyan university, and has contributed to miscellaneous charities more than $400,000. His gallery of pictures is one of the finest in the United States, and he has presented several valuable paintings to the Metropolitan museum of art, New York city.