SEYBERT, Frank T. from the "Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa"

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FRANK T. SEYBERT, physician and surgeon, Council Bluffs, has been 
identified with the interests of Pottawattamie County since 1882.  He 
is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Columbia County, April 3, l859, a 
son of S. E. and S. M. (Knorr) Seybert, natives of Pennsylvania, and 
of German extraction and of Quaker families.  The youth of our subject 
was spent in attending the public school and the Normal School at 
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and completed his education at Kingston 
Seminary.  He began his study of medicine in the spring of 1877, under 
the preceptorship of Dr. B. F. Gardner, of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania; 
entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in the fall of 
1877, and graduated in the spring of 1881.  After practicing in the 
hospital for a time, he came to Council Bluffs, in the spring of 1882, 
where he located and has since followed his profession, having, built 
up a successful and lucrative practice.

He was married June 20. 1888, to Miss Ida B. Wies, a daughter of F. 
Wies.  They have one child -- Frank Wies.  Dr. Seybert is a member of 
the K. of P., St. Albans Lodge, No. 17; the Uniform Rank, Bluff 
Division, No. 27, holding the honorable position of Surgeon; also of 
the Red Men, Pottawattamie Tribe, No. 20. also holding the office of 
Great Medicine Man.  He and his mother are members of the Episcopalian 
Church.  He has held the office of City Physician and Health Officer 
for three years; is president of the staff at St. Bernard's Hospital; 
is a member of the Council Bluffs Medical Society, serving, as 
Treasurer; of the Iowa State Medical Society, of the Missouri Valley 
Medical Society and of the American Medical Association.  Politically 
he is independent.

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If you would like more information about anyone mentioned in this
biography, please write to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical
Society at:

PO Box 394
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0394

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