Education
Born in New Providence, New Jersey, Weed received his medical training at Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1856.
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Gideon Weed
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Career
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. He died in 1905 at his home in Berkeley, California.
