Of the Pioneers of Tampa

 THE WEEDON FAMILY

 ISLIE W. WEEDON, M.D., of Tampa, is a grandson of Dr. Fred-
 erick Weedon, a native of Virginia and a surgeon in the U-
 nited States army. He attended the famous warrior and chief
 Osceola in his fatal illness at Fort Moultrie, in Charleston
 harbor. Dr. Frederick Weedon was a son of Colonel John 'ee-
 don, a Virginia officer under General Anthony Wayne at the
 battle of Brandywine, in the Revolutionary War.
 Dr. Leslie '. Weedon was born April 27, 1860, upon a
 plantation in Washington County, Georgia. He was graduated
 from the medical department of the University of New York in
 1885, and further equipped himself for the practice of the
 profession of medicine by post-graduate courses in the New
 York Polyclinic in 1891 and 1893. !Meanwhile he had establish-
 ed himself in the practice of his profession in Tampa, where
 he made his home after graduation in 1885.
 Dr. Weedcn has gained an acknowledged pre-eminence in
 his profession, to which his efforts for its advancement and
 increased usefulness have largely contributed, as well as
Serving the end of relieving human suffering. He is one of
That class of physicians who have honored the profession by
 making it one of the instrumentalities for the public good.
 As a member of the American Medical Association and
 of the Florida State Association and organizer and first
 president of the Hillsborough County Medical Society he has
 received honorable recognition from his fellow practitioners.
 He is a frequent and highly valued contributor professional
 publications.
 Dr. eedon was for three years president of the Hills-
 borough County Board of Health; for several years h~. was lo-
 cal surgeon for the Plant System. He was chiefly instrumen-
 tal in the bstablishment- of the Emergency Hospital in Tampa
 in 1889.
 Dr. Leslie w. Weedon, on Febrary U, 1889, married
 Blanche Henderson. (See Henderson family.) They have three
 children born in Tampa; namely, Fred R., Harry Lee and Mary
 B.







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