Godfrey, Edward Settle, Jr.

Physician for Copper Queen. Superintendent of the Arizona Territorial Board of Health (1908-1912).
Born August 16, 1878, at Yates, N. D. Graduated from the University of Virginia in 1900. Came to Arizona February 1, 1903. In November of that year he joined the medical staff of the Copper Queen Mining Company, and later engaged in private practice in that city. In 1908 he removed to Tucson, and the following year to Phoenix, where he has since lived. In 1908 Governor Kibbey appointed him Superintendent of Public Health, and he served in that position until March 1, 1912, since when he has engaged entirely in private practice. He is a charter member of the Cochise County Medical Society, of which he was secretary for two years ; of the Arizona Medical Society, of which he was vice president in 1909…. He initiated the movement which resulted in the Vital Statistics Law of the State and as Territorial Registrar organized this bureau. As State Health Officer Dr. Godfrey made a strong fight on all questionable medicines and so-called "cures, and started the movement which drove several of the promoters of these alleged curealls from Arizona and he helped frame the measure which keeps them out. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 678-679).
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
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, pages 256-257, 343.
Arizona Medical Journal, May, 1916; 4:5, page 22: Dr. E. S. Godfrey (U. of Va., ’00), formerly city health officer of Phoenix, has removed to Illinois, having received the appointment of chief epidemiologist for that State.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MODEL HEALTH ORDINANCES FOR A CITY WHICH IS A RESORT FOR CONSUMPTIVES. J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1911; LVII: 1897 - 1903. See pp. 1900-1902: Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., M.D., Phoenix, et al. REFORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LAWS AND METHODS OF CONTROL OF TUBERCULOSIS IN A HEALTH RESORT STATE.

J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1906; XLVI: 447: List of new members of the American Medical Association for the month of January, 1906: ARIZONA. Godfrey, E. S. Jr., Lowell.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1907; XLVIII: 1036: Election.--At a meeting of the Cochise County Medical Society, held at Bisbee, March 2, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. Fenn J. Hart, Bisbee; vice-presidents, Drs. Charles L. Caven, Bisbee, John E. Bacon, Tombstone, and James J. P. Armstrong, Douglas; secretary-treasurer, Dr. Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., Lowell, and censor, Dr. George A. Bridge, Bisbee.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1911; LVII: 326: Dr. E. S. Godfrey, Phoenix, Ariz., road a paper on "Laws and Methods for Control of Tuberculosis in a Resort State," prepared by Drs. E. S. Godfrey, Phoenix, Ariz., and T. Y. Hull, San Antonio, Tex.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1912; LVIII: 1693: Dr. R. N. Looney, Prescott, has been appointed superintendent of public health, vice Dr. E. S. Godfrey.
JAMA, Jun 1961; 176: 1046-1047: Godfrey, Edward Settle Jr. Albany, N.Y.; born in Fort Yates, N.D., Aug. 16, 1878; University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, 1900; established himself in medical practice in Bisbee, Ariz., in 1903 and five years later was appointed superintendent of public health of the Territory of Arizona, an office he held four years; from 1912 to 1915 was engaged in private practice in Phoenix and was simultaneously city health officer and school medical inspector; in 1916 became epidemiologist on the staff of the Illinois State Board of Health and in the following year was appointed to the corresponding office in the New York State Health Department; during World War I served with the American Red Cross as a captain; following the war was assigned to Southeastern Europe to assist in a survey of medical, hospital, health and sanitation problems which arose from the war; returned to the United States in 1919, and resumed his duties in the state health department; in 1920 appointed director of the division of communicable diseases; served as adjunct professor of preventive medicine and public health at the Albany (N.Y.) Medical College and clinical professor of epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; named director of local health administration in 1931; in that capacity, and later as assistant commissioner for local health administration, he reorganized and directed the work of. the 16 state health districts, exercised general supervision over various public health projects in about 40 counties receiving state aid for public health activities, and had general oversight of the work of approximately 800 local health officers; in 1936 appointed state health commissioner; a founder and past-president of the American Epidemiological Society; fellow and past-president of the American Public Health Association which in 1951 awarded him the Sedgwick Memorial Medal in recognition of his contributions to the evolution and development of public health practice and his interpretation of the principles of epidemiology; past-president of the State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America and the State and Provincial Health Association; fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officers and a member of the executive committee; died Dec. 13, aged 82, of cor pulmonale.