Gideon A. Weed
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]