Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman
{{short description|American physician}}
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| name = Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman
| image = CleoraAugustaSeaman1921.png
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| caption = Cleora Augusta Seaman, from a 1921 publication
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| birth_date = 1814
| birth_place = Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
| death_date = 1869
| death_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
| occupation = Physician
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| spouse = {{marriage|John Farmer Seaman|1833}}
| children = 7
| relatives = William Seaman Bainbridge (grandson)
William Sims Bainbridge (great-great-grandson)
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Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman (June 9, 1814 – July 10, 1869) was an American physician based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Early life and education
Stevens was born in Middlebury, Vermont, and raised in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Levi Stevens and Lucy Boynton Stevens.{{Cite book |last=De Forest |first=Louis Effingham |url=http://archive.org/details/ancestryofwillia00defo |title=Ancestry of William Seaman Bainbridge. |date=1950 |publisher=Oxford : Scrivener Press, 1950. |others=Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center}} In midlife, she pursued a medical education at Western College of Homeopathy in Cleveland, the only program in Ohio where she could gain admission as a woman. She received her medical degree in 1860, the only woman in her class.{{Cite journal |last=Bainbridge |first=Lucy Seaman |date=March 1921 |title=One of the Pioneer Women in Medicine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QQQDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cleora+Seaman+Ohio&pg=PA75 |journal=Medical Woman's Journal |volume=28 |pages=75–78}}
Career
After earning a medical degree, Seaman opened a free dispensary from her home in Ohio,{{Cite book |last=Bainbridge |first=Lucy Seaman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-GzQAAAAMAAJ&q=Cleora+Seaman+Ohio |title=Yesterdays |date=1924 |publisher=Fleming H. Revell Company |language=en}} and experimented with combining electricity and hydropathy in her work. In 1867 she was co-founder with Myra King Merrick of the Cleveland Homeopathic College and Hospital for Women.{{Cite web |last=Cole |first=Kimberly |title=Pioneering Women Doctors |url=https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/589 |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=Cleveland Historical |language=en-US}} She was the college's first president.{{Cite book |last=Cleveland Homeopathic College and Hospital for Women |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kS5WZxPis2YC&dq=Cleveland%20Homeopathic%20WOmen%20Seaman&pg=PA19 |title=Annual Announcement |date=1868 |publisher=Leader Book and Job Office |language=en}}
Personal life and legacy
Cleora Stevens married John Farmer Seaman in 1833. They had seven children.{{Cite book |last=Bainbridge |first=William Sims |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mwJ2DwAAQBAJ&dq=Cleveland+Homeopathic+WOmen+Seaman&pg=PA56 |title=Family History Digital Libraries |date=2018-11-02 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-01063-8 |pages=56–58 |language=en}} Cleora Stevens Seaman died in 1869, at the age of 55, at her daughter's home in Providence, Rhode Island.{{Cite journal |date=November 1869 |title=Personal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzygAAAAMAAJ&dq=Cleora+Seaman+Ohio&pg=PA206 |journal=The Ohio Medical and Surgical Reporter |volume=3 |pages=206}}
Her daughter Lucy Seaman Bainbridge became a nurse in the American Civil War, and a temperance leader;{{Cite web |date=2006-10-21 |title=Lucy Bainbridge |url=https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2006/10/lucy-bainbridge.html |access-date=2023-04-06 |website=History of American Women |language=en-US}} she wrote about her mother's work in a 1921 journal article, "One of the Pioneer Women in Medicine". She also wrote about her mother in a memoir, Yesterdays (1924). Cleora Seaman's descendants include surgeon William Seaman Bainbridge (Lucy's son) and sociologist William Sims Bainbridge (Lucy's great-grandson).{{Cite news |last=Cassidy |first=Joseph |date=1965-05-15 |title=Three Socialites Die in Blaze |pages=58 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/122418393/three-socialites-die-in-blazejoseph/ |access-date=2023-04-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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