Seaman, P. David

P. David Seaman was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, on January 31, 1932, the third of eleven children. His father Albert Leroy Seaman was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Connellsville, and his grandfather Albert Redfield Seaman was a minister in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church. At the age of five, David Seaman was placed in the first of a series of foster homes under the auspices of the Fayette county Child Welfare Program. While finishing high school, he worked for the local YMCA, and was a reporter for The Daily Courier in Connellsville.

Seaman served in the U.S. Army from February 1951 to February 1954, during the Korean War. In 1952 he participated in military maneuvers during a live atomic-bomb test at Yucca Flats, Nevada. In 1954 he was honored for efficient administration of a military hospital in Korea. Just before leaving for Korea, Seaman in January 1953 married Mary Miller Seaman of Louisville, Kentucky. They later had three children, Nancy, Mark, and Don, and presently have five grandchildren.

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