Arrived in Jerome in 1897. ArMA president: 1905. Third superintendent of Territorial Board of Health (1907-1908). Died of tuberculosis while superintendent. Dates: 1865- Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 142.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 256.
Phillips, Melvin W. Mile hi docs. Prescott, AZ : [M & J Pub. Co.], 1996, pages 162-164.
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 335.
See also: Portrait and biographical record of Arizona. Commemorating the achievements of citizens who have contributed to the progress of Arizona and the development of its resources. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1901, pages 231-232.
“The Arizona Territorial Board of Health was created in 1903. The Arizona State Board of Health was created in 1913 and abolished on April 1, 1974. The Arizona Department of Health Services was established March 1, 1974…” [source: http://www.fgs.org/rpa/AzCore.htm]
Apparently both the Arizona Territorial Board of Health and the Arizona State Board of Health were sometimes called simply the Arizona Board of Health.
Coleman, J.W., Arizona Territorial Superintendent of Public Health. Sanitation. Southern California Practitioner 1908, pp.307-309.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 64: Yavapai County Medical Society. -- This society was organized on the standard plan at Prescott, June 18, with 14 charter members. The following officers were elected: Dr. Thomas B. Davis, president; Dr. Will S. Smith, vice-president, and Dr. Clarence E. Yount, secretary-treasurer, all of Prescott; delegates to the Arizona Medical Association, Drs. J. W. Coleman, Jerome, and John S. Barrett, Prescott; and censors, Drs. Henry D. Thomason, U. S. Army, Whipple Barracks, James N. McCandless, Prescott, and John Dennett, Jr., Congress.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1907; XLVIII: 1356: Dr. James W. Coleman, Tucson, recently appointed superintendent of public health for the territory, has sent out letters to the different clerks of the county boards of supervisors, asking their cooperation in the concerted effort he is endeavoring to make against contagious diseases and their needless spread.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1908; LI: 1442: James W. Coleman, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, 1893; a member of the American Medical Association ; territorial health officer of Arizona, and formerly president of the Arizona Territorial Medical Association; died at his home in Tucson, October 4, aged 43.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 256.
Phillips, Melvin W. Mile hi docs. Prescott, AZ : [M & J Pub. Co.], 1996, pages 162-164.
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 335.
See also: Portrait and biographical record of Arizona. Commemorating the achievements of citizens who have contributed to the progress of Arizona and the development of its resources. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1901, pages 231-232.
“The Arizona Territorial Board of Health was created in 1903. The Arizona State Board of Health was created in 1913 and abolished on April 1, 1974. The Arizona Department of Health Services was established March 1, 1974…” [source: http://www.fgs.org/rpa/AzCore.htm]
Apparently both the Arizona Territorial Board of Health and the Arizona State Board of Health were sometimes called simply the Arizona Board of Health.
Coleman, J.W., Arizona Territorial Superintendent of Public Health. Sanitation. Southern California Practitioner 1908, pp.307-309.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 64: Yavapai County Medical Society. -- This society was organized on the standard plan at Prescott, June 18, with 14 charter members. The following officers were elected: Dr. Thomas B. Davis, president; Dr. Will S. Smith, vice-president, and Dr. Clarence E. Yount, secretary-treasurer, all of Prescott; delegates to the Arizona Medical Association, Drs. J. W. Coleman, Jerome, and John S. Barrett, Prescott; and censors, Drs. Henry D. Thomason, U. S. Army, Whipple Barracks, James N. McCandless, Prescott, and John Dennett, Jr., Congress.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1907; XLVIII: 1356: Dr. James W. Coleman, Tucson, recently appointed superintendent of public health for the territory, has sent out letters to the different clerks of the county boards of supervisors, asking their cooperation in the concerted effort he is endeavoring to make against contagious diseases and their needless spread.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1908; LI: 1442: James W. Coleman, M.D. Jefferson Medical College, 1893; a member of the American Medical Association ; territorial health officer of Arizona, and formerly president of the Arizona Territorial Medical Association; died at his home in Tucson, October 4, aged 43.
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AMH-PN0678
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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) 407-409; volume 12, page(s) 223
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pn0185
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Residence(s)
Jerome
Tucson