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'''Gideon A. Weed''' (1833–1905) was [[List of mayors of Seattle|mayor of Seattle, Washington]] from 1876 to 1878, serving as an independent. Weed, a doctor by profession is credited with greatly reducing the impact of a [[smallpox]] epidemic in 1877, acting as the city's health officer and even paying for treatment of patients from his own pocket.<ref> |
'''Gideon A. Weed''' (1833–1905) was [[List of mayors of Seattle|mayor of Seattle, Washington]] from 1876 to 1878, serving as an independent. Weed, a doctor by profession is credited with greatly reducing the impact of a [[smallpox]] epidemic in 1877, acting as the city's health officer and even paying for treatment of patients from his own pocket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylink.org/_content/printer_friendly/pf_output.cfm?file_id=2777 |title=HistoryLink Essay:Voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 9, 1877 |publisher=Historylink.org |date= |accessdate=2012-06-24}}</ref> Weed and his wife, Adaline, also a doctor, had settled in Seattle in 1870 after previously practicing [[hydropathy]] in [[Nevada]] and [[Oregon]], one of the first few to practice it in the United States.<ref>http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2008/fall.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2009/Spring.pdf</ref> |
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Gideon A. Weed (1833–1905) was mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1876 to 1878, serving as an independent. Weed, a doctor by profession is credited with greatly reducing the impact of a smallpox epidemic in 1877, acting as the city's health officer and even paying for treatment of patients from his own pocket.[1] Weed and his wife, Adaline, also a doctor, had settled in Seattle in 1870 after previously practicing hydropathy in Nevada and Oregon, one of the first few to practice it in the United States.[2][3]