Arrived in Bisbee on July 4, 1904. Moved to Tucson in 1931 [or 1933 as per PCMS 50th Anniversary program?] and practiced there until 1952. ArMA president: 1933. Dates: 1876-1974.
Chief surgeon: Calumet & Arizona Mining Co.
Arizona Medical Board record: Nelson C. Bledsoe MD; license number: 218; license date: 7/4/1904; medical school: KECK SCH OF MED OF THE USC, Los Angeles, California; graduation date: 06/30/1903. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
History of Arizona, 1930. Vol.3., pp. 126-127, 129.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 155.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 329.
See also: McClintock, James H. Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern; the Nation's Youngest Commonwealth within a Land of Ancient Culture. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916 (aka Arizona, the Youngest State), volume 3 (Biographical), page 235-236.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), page 126, 127 [portrait], 129.
Nelson C. Bledsoe Lodge #74, F&AM, Tucson, AZ
http://www.nelsoncbledsoe74.org/ [viewed 11/18/2013]
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “So far as is known, he had the first X-ray machine in Arizona, acquired in 1904. Dr. Joel I. Butler and Dr. Jeremiah Metzger had the first two in Tucson, after 1912. Dr. Bledsoe’s was a Scheidel-Western, operated by wet cells and required ten minutes to take a picture.”
Arizona Daily Star, March 21, 2010: CEMETERY TOUR RELIVES PAST: At graveside, S. Ariz. history has real way of coming to life: ...Dr. Nelson Bledsoe (1876-1974), who set up practice in Bisbee in 1904 during a typhoid outbreak. Aided by his X-ray machine, the first in the territory, he specialized in bullet removal. He also went into mines after cave-ins to aid the wounded and perform field amputations.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1932; 98: 1820: Dr. Clarence Gunter, Globe, was installed as president of the Arizona State Medical Association at its recent annual meeting, and Dr. Nelson C. Bledsoe, Tucson, was made president-elect. Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, was reelected secretary. The next annual session will be held at Tucson in April, 1933.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1933; 100: 1699: Dr. Nelson C. Bledsoe, Tucson, was installed as president of the Arizona State Medical Association at its annual meeting in Tucson, April 20. Dr. Fred G. Holmes, Phoenix, was named president-elect and Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, reelected secretary. The next annual session will be held at Prescott in April, 1934.
JAMA, Jul 1974; 229: 475: BLEDSOE, Nelson Charles; Tucson, Ariz; University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 1903; died Feb 22, aged 97, of "old age."
Chief surgeon: Calumet & Arizona Mining Co.
Arizona Medical Board record: Nelson C. Bledsoe MD; license number: 218; license date: 7/4/1904; medical school: KECK SCH OF MED OF THE USC, Los Angeles, California; graduation date: 06/30/1903. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
History of Arizona, 1930. Vol.3., pp. 126-127, 129.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 155.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 329.
See also: McClintock, James H. Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern; the Nation's Youngest Commonwealth within a Land of Ancient Culture. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916 (aka Arizona, the Youngest State), volume 3 (Biographical), page 235-236.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), page 126, 127 [portrait], 129.
Nelson C. Bledsoe Lodge #74, F&AM, Tucson, AZ
http://www.nelsoncbledsoe74.org/ [viewed 11/18/2013]
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “So far as is known, he had the first X-ray machine in Arizona, acquired in 1904. Dr. Joel I. Butler and Dr. Jeremiah Metzger had the first two in Tucson, after 1912. Dr. Bledsoe’s was a Scheidel-Western, operated by wet cells and required ten minutes to take a picture.”
Arizona Daily Star, March 21, 2010: CEMETERY TOUR RELIVES PAST: At graveside, S. Ariz. history has real way of coming to life: ...Dr. Nelson Bledsoe (1876-1974), who set up practice in Bisbee in 1904 during a typhoid outbreak. Aided by his X-ray machine, the first in the territory, he specialized in bullet removal. He also went into mines after cave-ins to aid the wounded and perform field amputations.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1932; 98: 1820: Dr. Clarence Gunter, Globe, was installed as president of the Arizona State Medical Association at its recent annual meeting, and Dr. Nelson C. Bledsoe, Tucson, was made president-elect. Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, was reelected secretary. The next annual session will be held at Tucson in April, 1933.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1933; 100: 1699: Dr. Nelson C. Bledsoe, Tucson, was installed as president of the Arizona State Medical Association at its annual meeting in Tucson, April 20. Dr. Fred G. Holmes, Phoenix, was named president-elect and Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, reelected secretary. The next annual session will be held at Prescott in April, 1934.
JAMA, Jul 1974; 229: 475: BLEDSOE, Nelson Charles; Tucson, Ariz; University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, 1903; died Feb 22, aged 97, of "old age."
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AMH-PN0272
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PCMS-Min
History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 1, page(s) 169-171; volume 6, page(s) 422,423
PCMS pnID
pn0085
OHB Checked
y
Residence(s)
Bisbee
Tucson