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William Ezra Seba, M.D.
Vol. 3 Page 1918

     One of the first medical men to locate and open an office at the new Town of Leedey
was Dr. W. E. Seba, who during the past eight years has built up a large practice in the
town and surrounding country, and is one of the best qualified physicians and surgeons
in Dewey County, a fact that is readily attested by his high standing in the community
and by his professional work here and elsewhere.

     He comes of an old Southern Missouri family, and was born at Bland, in that state,
January 15, 1884.  His grandfather Seba came from Germany in 1853, located in
Gasconade County, Missouri, on a farm, and died soon afterward.  Doctor Seba's father
is Dr. J. D. Seba, also a physician, who was born in Gasconade County, at Woollman,
Missouri, in 1856.  He is now living at Bland, where he has been in active practice as a
physician since 1894.  In that year he was graduated from the Beaumont College of
Medicine at St. Louis. For a number of years before taking up medical practice he served
as justice of the peace and is now editor of the Bland Courier.  He has also been coroner
of Gasconade County, and has filled all the chairs in the Gasconade County Medical
Society and has served on several important committees in the Missouri State Medical
Society.  He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Modern Woodmen
of America, the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, is active in the Methodist Episcopal
Church and in politics is a republican.  Dr. J. D. Seba married Miss Katy Horstman, who
was born in Osage County, Missouri, in 1857.  Their children are:  Henry F., a farmer at
Feuersville, Missouri; John W., who has a draying business at Bland; D. William E.;
Rosie L., wife of R. M Stricklen, who is connected with the Swift Packing Company in
East St. Louis; Fred L., who is manager and publisher of the Bland Courier, owned by
himself and father jointly, and this republican paper has probably the largest circulation
in Osage and Gasconade counties; and Louise, still at home with her parents.

     William Ezra Seba attended the public schools in Bland, and by a course of study at
home and under the direction of his father was well qualified to pass his examinations
and receive his credentials when he entered medical school.  He entered the Marion-Sims
Medical College at St. Louis in 1900, took a two years' course, but at the end of that time
was too young to graduate.  He then employed his time in a drug store one year, entered
the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, and was graduated there April 14,
1905, with the degree M.D. only a few months after his twenty-first birthday.

     After a general practice at Bland, his old home town, for two years, Doctor Seba came
to Oklahoma in 1907 and began practice at Leedey.  His offices are in the Horr & Seba
Building, of which is one of the owners.

     Doctor Seba is president of the Dewey County Medical Society, and is a member of
the State Society, the Southwestern Medical and the American Medical Association.  He
is a stockholder in the Leedey Oil & Gas Company, and has financial interests in various
other enterprises.  In politics he is a republican.  He has served as deputy health officer at
Leedey and also as a member of the town board.  Fraternally he is affiliated with Leedey
Lodge No. 369, I. O. O. F.,, being now Right Supporter to the Noble Grand; with Leedey
Lodge No. 227, of the Knights of Pythias; with the Brotherhood of American Yeomen
and the Modern Woodmen of America at Leedey, and with the Mutual Protective
League.

     On May 23, 1907, in Kansas City, Missouri, Doctor Seba married Miss Marie
Telkamp of Sanborn, Iowa.  Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Telkamp are now living at
Mitchell, South Dakota, where her father is a retired farmer and the owner of
considerable property.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Norma Capehart March 6 2003.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).