Person:Ami Seaman (1)

"A. L. SEAMAN, M. D.,
Physician, Surgeon and Acoouqheur. Also Physician for attending the poor in and for the city and county of Alpena. Office, over Myers' store, corner of Second and Water streets. All calls promptly attended to night or day. Residence on Fletcher street."

This add appears for years in other issues of the Alpena Weekly Argus

"NOTICE.
The Board of Superintendents of the Poor, for Alpena County, will meet on the first Tuesday of each month, and all bills to be approved and audited must be presented to the Secretary, on or before said days.
A.L. Seaman,
Secretary of the Board
Dec. 9, 1878"

Ami L Seaman
United States Census, 1880
Name: Ami L Seaman
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: Alpena, Alpena, Michigan, United States
Event Place (Original): Alpena, Alpena, Michigan, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race(Original): W
Occupation: Physician
Birth Year (Estimated): 1839
Birthplace: Canada
Father's Birthplace: Rhode Island, United States
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Self
Sheet Letter: D
Sheet Number: 458
Person Number: 0
Volume: 1
Record Number: 17379669
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Ami L Seaman Self Male 41 Canada
Jane G Seaman Wife Female 40 Scotland
James Seaman Son Male 19 Canada
George Seaman Son Male 17 Canada
Maggie Seaman Daughter Female 14 Canada
Jessie Seaman Daughter Female 12 Canada
Gilbert Seaman Son Male 10 Canada
Angus Seaman Son Male 7 Michigan, United States
Charles Seaman Son Male 5 Michigan, United States
Frank Seaman Son Male 3 Michigan, United States
Fred Seaman Son Male 1 Michigan, United States

"A coroner's inquest, before coroner Persons, last week, as to the cause of the death of Mrs. Samuel Wedge, who died March 10th, camo to a close on Friday, the jury rendering a verdict to tho effect that death was caused by the improper use of a pair of scissors, at time of childbirth, and that "the said Dr. A. L. Seaman then and there did kill and slay the said Mrs. Samuel Wedge."

“1, Charles D'Aigle, Police Justice in and for the city of Alpena, do hereby respect fully certify and report to the Common Council of said city of Alpena, that the following schedule contains a true and correct statement of the number, dates of trial, names, age, occupation, nationality, place of residence, offenses of which they were accused, the amount of fine paid by each and every individual, and those who were committed to the Alpena county jail in default of paying such fine as was imposed, brought, tried and convicted by and before me as Police Justice of said city of Alpena, since during from and including the 10th day of April, A. D., 1883, to the date here of, viz :
…
April 19. A. L. Seaman, age 45, physician, Irish,City of Alpena, drunk, $2 and, costs.
…
April 24, A. L. Seaman, age 43, physician, Irish, City of Alpena, drunk, $5 and costs.”

"A verdict of not guilty has been rendered in the suit of the people
against A. L. Seaman. This was the noted case in regard to the death of
Mrs. Samuel Wedge, who died while undergoing a surgical operation while
being confined, and the doctor was charged with malpractice."

"Notice.
All persons are hereby notified and forbidden to give, sell or furnish in any manner, any spirituous, malt, brewed, fermented, or vinous liquors, or any beverage containing any such liquors, to my husband, Ami L. Seaman. This notice is given by me, as the wife of said Ami L. Seaman in persuance [sic] of the laws of this state, and I shall prosecute any person violating the same.
Jessie Seaman
Alpena, March 4, 1884"

This notice appears throughout March of 1884 in the Alpena Weekly Argus.

"Dr. Seaman and L.G. DaFoe have purchased the drug store in the Culligan block."

"The residence of A.L. Seaman, on Third street, was damaged by fire considerable, last Thursday."

"Liquor Habit
The partnership heretofore existing between Drs. Seaman and Secrist for the cure of the liquor, opium, and tobacco habits, has been dissolved by mutual consent.
Drs. Secrist and McGuire will now take up the treatment for the cure of the liquor and morphine (or opium) habits only. Drs. Secrist and McGuire will adopt tho Keeloy method, as improved by them, and will guarantee to cure any patient who may present himself for
treatment, and without injury to health or detention from business, or the fee of
fifty (50) dollars will be refunded."

Dr Ami L Seaman
BIRTH 1836
DEATH 1897 (aged 60–61)
BURIAL
Evergreen Cemetery
Alpena, Alpena County, Michigan, USA
PLOT Original Section I - 345 S

"Three prisoners were taken to the Detroit House of Correction last week by sheriff Lynch. The men were Dr. A. L. Seaman, 90 days, for drunkenness...."

"Dr. Seaman was arrested yesterday for being drunk. Sentence suspended."

"We are very sorry to be called upon to chronicle the accident which happened to Dr. Seaman, on Monday night. It would seem, from all the information that we are able to gather, that the doctor had been drinking considerably during Sunday and Monday, and on Monday night he wandered off, and finally brought op by falling off the dock, near the bath house, on to the ice, breaking his right leg in two places below the knee. His cries for help attracted the attention of Mrs. N. Woods, who occupies the bath house, and Mr. Woods, together with the assistance of Alex. McDonald, who lives next door, procured a sleigh and carried the doctor to his residence on Third street, where the leg was set by Dr. Maiden."

Gilbert E. Seaman, M. D., Milwaukee, is the son of A. L. and
Jessie (Gordon) Seaman, the former a native of Nova Scotia, and the
latter of Scotland. They came to Alpena county, Mich., in the early
days, Dr. A. L. Seaman being one of the pioneer physicians of North-
ern Michigan and was well and widely known throughout the state
as a cultured and successful practitioner. He was educated in Arcadia
College and received his technical and professional training at Berk-
shire Medical School and Harvard School of Medicine, of which he
was a graduate. To him and his estimable wife, ten children were
born, of whom five are living. Mrs. Seaman is still living, but the
doctor died in 1897. Gilbert E. Seaman was born in Alpena, Mich.,
on Sept. 19, 1869, and received his earlier education in the common and
high schools and the Episcopal Academy of Michigan, and he studied
medicine at the Detroit College of Medicine and the Michigan College
of Medicine, and later took a post-graduate course at the Cniversity
of Berlin, German}-. 1 [e began his practice in Milwaukee in 1892 as a
general practitioner. In 1898, upon the declaration of the war with
Spain, he offered his services to the government and served for two
years, first as captain and assistant surgeon of the Fourth Wisconsin
infantry, and then as surgeon of the mounted troops of General McArthur's division in the Philippines. Later he resumed his profession in Milwaukee and is now a specialist in the diseases of the eye and ear.
He originated the idea of the Blue Mound Sanatorium, a charitable
institution for patients afflicted with tuberculosis,, the first of the kind in
the state, and is at present the secretary and treasurer of the institu-
tion. In connection with his professional life Dr. Seaman is a member
of the American Medical Association, the Wisconsin State Medical
Society (of which he is the president), the Milwaukee County Medical
Society and the Milwaukee Medical Society. In politics he supports
the Republican party and has accepted office only in the line of his
profession, having been assistant health officer of the city for a period
of eight years. Dr. Seaman is a conscientious student, keeping up
with all the latest discoveries, methods and appliances of his profes-
sion, and is acquiring a wide reputation in the line of his specialty for
careful work, and successful operations. Beside his technical knowl-
edge, his studies abroad and his travels have given him a culture and
wider outlook. He was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Sivyer,
of Milwaukee, daughter of Byron G. and Clara Harshaw Sivyer, both
of whom are now deceased. To the marriage two children, Francis
and Elizabeth, have been born.

"SEAMAN Ami L. Dr. 23 AUG 1897 63 physician"

Name: Ammi Seamans
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1861
Event Place: Brant, Bruce, Ontario, Canada
Enumeration District: 01
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Marital Status: Married
Religion: U P
Birthplace: Nova Scotia
Birth Year (Estimated): 1837
Sheet Number: 2
Affiliate Film Number: C-1010-1011

Line Number: 40
GS Film Number: 349251
Digital Folder Number: 4107386

Citing this Record
"Ontario Census, 1861," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQQ6-D36 : 9 March 2018), Ammi Seamans, Brant, Bruce, Ontario, Canada; citing p. 2, line 40; Library and Archives Canada film number C-1010-1011, Public Archives, Toronto; FHL microfilm 349,251.