Carlson, Arthur Charles

Arrived in Arizona about 1910. ArMA president: 1928. Dates: 1887-1962. Became first chief of staff at Marcus Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Cottonwood. Arizona Medical Board record: Arthur C. Carlson MD; license number: 419; license date: 7/16/1910; medical school: KECK SCH OF MED OF THE USC, Los Angeles, California; graduation date: 06/16/1910; address: 341 W McDowell Rd, Phoenix.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 153.
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 333.
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 573.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 194,195 [portrait].

J Am Med Assoc, May 1925; 84: 1362: Dr. George A. Bridge, Bisbee, was elected president of the Arizona State Medical Association at the annual meeting in Bisbee, April 16-18; Drs.Charles S. Vivian, Phoenix, Arthur C. Carlson, Jerome, and Willard Smith, Phoenix, vice presidents…
JAMA, Oct 1962; 182: 202: Carlson, Arthur Charles; Phoenix, Ariz.; born in Chicago Sept. 4, 1887; College of Physicians and Surgeons (Medical Department of the University of Southern California) Los Angeles, 1910; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; past-president of the Arizona Medical Association; at one time mayor of Jerome; served as a member of the medical advisory board of the Arizona Industrial Commission; at one time a member of the staff of the United Verde Hospital in Jerome and chief surgeon and administrator of the Marcus Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Cottonwood; in 1960 awarded the Medallion of Merit from the University of Arizona; died in St. Joseph's Hospital June 30, aged 74, of myocardial infarction.