Background
Seaman, Louis Livingston was born on October 17, 1851 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of Valentine and Anna Amelia (Ferris) Seaman.
Seaman, Louis Livingston was born on October 17, 1851 in Newburgh, New York, United States. Son of Valentine and Anna Amelia (Ferris) Seaman.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell, 1872. Doctor of Medicine Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1876. Doctor of Medicine University Medical College (New York University), 1877.
Bachelor of Laws, New York University, 1884.
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons., London, 1908. Doctor of Laws, Lincoln U.
Resident surgeon New York State Emigrant Hospital, 1877-1879. Superintendent of State Emigrant Insane Asylum, 1879-1881. Chief of staff of various hospitals and the Training School for Nurses, Blackwell’s Island, until 1885.
Made tour around the world, 1886, with special study, in hospitals of India, of contagious and epidemic diseases peculiar to the Orient.
Delaware to International Congresses, London, 1881, Berlin, 1894, Moscow, 1897, Paris, 1900, Madrid, 1903, Lisbon, 1906, Budapest, 1910, London, 1913. Emeritus president China Society America.
President British War Relief Association, Physicians and Surgical Travel Club United States Trustee Sulgrave Institution, England (ancestral home of Washington), Cornell Univercity With 2d Imperial Army of Japan, at the front in Manchuria, 1905. Special correspondent of The Independent at the front in the European War.
Knight Order of Leopold (Belgian).
Commander Order of the Crown (Rumanian). Order Rising Sun, Order of the Treasury (Japan). Order of Special Merit, and member Red Cross of Japan.
Service medals Spanish-American War, Philippines, China, by France and England in the World War.
Author: From Tokio Through Manchuria with the Japanese, 1905. The Real Triumph of Japan, 1906.
Home: New York, New New York
Member Red Cross of Japan.
Married Fannie Blackstone Freeman, 1889 (died 1895). Married second, Mary Stuart Huntington, December 12, 1907 (died 1926).