Seybert, Frank T.

SEYBERT

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Date: 9/22/2019 at 21:13:39

Frank T. Seybert

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.711)
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 13, 1859, 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 the 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 u 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.