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Gideon A. Weed
9th Mayor of Seattle
In office
1876–1878
Preceded byBailey Gatzert
Succeeded byBeriah Brown
Personal details
Born(1833-03-07)March 7, 1833
New Providence, New Jersey
DiedApril 22, 1905(1905-04-22) (aged 72)
Berkeley, California
SpouseAdaline Melinda Willis

Gideon Allen Weed (March 7, 1833 – April 22, 1905) was mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1876 to 1878, serving as an independent. He was born in New Providence, New Jersey. 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] He died in 1905 in Berkeley, California

References

  1. ^ "HistoryLink Essay:Voters re-elect Gideon A. Weed as mayor of the City of Seattle on July 9, 1877". Historylink.org. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
  2. ^ http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2008/fall.pdf
  3. ^ http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2009/Spring.pdf