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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.

Born in New Providence, New Jersey, Weed received his medical training at Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1856.[1]

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.[2] 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.[3][4] He died in 1905 at his home in Berkeley, California.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Stedman, Thomas L., ed. "News of the Week: Obituary Notes", p. 783, Medical Record (journal), May 20, 1905. William Wood & Company, 1905. Accessed September 10, 2015. "Dr. GIDEON A. WEED, a pioneer physician of the Pacific Coast, and a man who, as twice Mayor of Seattle, and a prominent citizen of Washington State, did much toward the upbuilding of the Northwest, died at his home in Berkeley, Cal., on April 21. He was born in New Providence, N. J., in 1833 and was graduated from the Rush Medical College Chicago, in 1856."
  2. ^ "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.
  3. ^ http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2008/fall.pdf
  4. ^ http://www.medicine.nevada.edu/dept/hom/2009/Spring.pdf