Gideon A. Weed

Who is Gideon A. Weed?

Gideon Allen Weed 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. 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. He died in 1905 in Berkeley, California