physician, surgeon, author, b. Alpena, Mich. He graduated from Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery (M.D., 1889), and did advanced study at the universities of Wurzburg and Berlin, Germany. In 1892 he returned to the U.S. and to Milwaukee, where he began the practice of medicine, and later served as a director of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. During the Spanish-American War, Seaman served with the U.S. Volunteers in the Philippine Islands, and in World War I was colonel in the U.S. Medical Corps, chief surgeon of the 32nd Division and of the U.S. Army 6th Corps in the A.E.F. After returning to his practice in Milwaukee, Seaman was twice called to represent the U.S. at international conferences on military medicine and pharmacy (Warsaw, 1927; London, 1929). He was also president of the Wisconsin State Medical Society (1909-1910), a regent of the Univ. of Wisconsin (1911-1925), and chairman of the university medical school committee that helped to secure establishment of Wisconsin General Hospital in Madison. He was for a number of years director of the state department of mental hygiene, and at his death was medical superintendent of the Winnebago State Hospital. Seaman was the author of A Compendium for Medical Officers (1917), a volume evaluating Lister as a scientist, and numerous other books and articles on medical subjects and the problems of the insane. Who's Who in Amer., 21 (1940); J. G. Gregory, Hist. of Milwaukee (4 vols., Chicago, 1931); M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Milwaukee journal, May 26, 1941.Learn More
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