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DR. EDGAR D SEAMAN
SEAMAN, EDGAR D., Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 10, 1855. He is descended of pre-Revolutionary stock, the son of John Seaman and Susan (Hopkins) Seaman. His grandfather, who lived to be 96 years of age, was a soldier in the Continental Army. Dr. Seaman married Martha Alexander at Wilmington, Cal. (Los Angeles), Nov. 7, 1888. There were born, Mary Edna and Martha Elizabeth Seaman.
Dr. Seaman received his preliminary education in the District School of Tompkins County, New York, and the Ithaca Academy. He attended this latter institution during the Fall months and taught in a smaller school through the winters. He entered the Medial Department of the University of Michigan in 1880, but left after two terms and went to the Medical Department of Columbia University, New York City, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1883. He followed this with a short postgraduate course at the New York Post-Graduate Medical College.
In 1884 Dr. Seaman began practice at Branchport, Yates County, New York, and also practiced for a few months (Winter ’86) at Rochester. Leaving there, he returned to New York City, and took a special course at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School, studying and practicing under Dr. Mittendorf. During the same year he also studied at the Skin and Cancer Hospital of New York.
Because of ill health he left New York in November, 1886, and went to Wilmington, California, where he began active practice. He remained there 12 years, moving to Los Angeles in 1898.
Dr. Seaman is a member of the County Medical Society of Los Angeles, the Yates County (N. Y.) Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He is a Mason, member of the Odd Fellows and the Gamut Club, of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 749,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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