Gideon A Weed

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.

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 at his home in Berkeley, California.