Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman
American physician
Cleora Augusta Stevens Seaman (June 9, 1814 – July 10, 1869) was an American medical doctor 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. 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.
Career
After earning a medical degree, Seaman opened a free dispensary from her home in Ohio, 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. She was the college's first president.
Personal life and legacy
Cleora Stevens married John Farmer Seaman in 1833. They had seven children. Cleora Stevens Seaman died in 1869, at the age of 55, at her daughter's home in Providence, Rhode Island.
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