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 343.
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), pages 853-854: Dr. George E. Goodrich, whose ability as a physician and whose place in the ranks of the medical fraternity of Arizona are indicated by his position as chief surgeon of the Arizona Copper Company, was born in DeKalb, Illinois, July 1, 1879. He is a son of Erastus and Phoebe (Dodge) Goodrich, the former a prominent farmer and businessman. Both have passed away. In their family were four children:
Harriet became the wife of Dr. Colfax Schulyer, a dentist of DeKalb and are the parents of two children; Lucy married Dr. Anson Smith, a dentist in Springfield Illinois and they have two children; Mary married H.W. McEwen, an attorney of DeKalb and a brother of Judge McEwen of Chicago and they also have two children. Dr. George E. Goodrich, the youngest child born to his parents was reared in DeKalb and there attended public school preparing himself for his college course at Kale Forest Academy. When he was seventeen he entered the University of Lake Forest but after one year became a student in the University of Chicago, where he remained two years. He then enrolled in Rush Medical College at Chicago graduating in 1905. In order to get the advantage of practical experience he served one year as Dr. J.B. Murphy's intern in the Presbyterian Hospital and then went to Clifton, Arizona where in the same year he was appointed assistant surgeon for the Arizona Copper Company. He did such able work that he was transferred in 1909 to Morenci and made chief surgeon of the company with charge of the hospital. He has acted in this capacity since that time. Dr. Goodrich married January 19, 1907 Miss Ruth Mason Wood, a native of Illinois and a daughter of E.O. and Amelia (Mason) Wood, residents of DeKalb where the father is a banker. In this family were four children: E.O. Jr who is in business in Champaign Illinois, Grace H. who resides with her parents in DeKalb; Harry C., a farmer of Macon Mississippi and Ruth M. the wife of Dr. Goodrich.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1920; 74: 740: Dr. George E. Goodrich, Phoenix, has been appointed state superintendent of health.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1921; 76: 386: Arizona. Free Clinic at Maricopa. The Maricopa County Health Center, organized by a citizens' committee headed by Dr. George E. Goodrich, state superintendent of public health, in association with the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Association, has established the first free clinic in the state.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1938; 111: 2227: George Erastus Goodrich, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1906; fellow of the American College of Surgeons ; on the staffs of St. Joseph's and Good Samaritan hospitals; surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital; aged 59 ; died, September 3, in Los Angeles of heart disease.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 343.
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), pages 853-854: Dr. George E. Goodrich, whose ability as a physician and whose place in the ranks of the medical fraternity of Arizona are indicated by his position as chief surgeon of the Arizona Copper Company, was born in DeKalb, Illinois, July 1, 1879. He is a son of Erastus and Phoebe (Dodge) Goodrich, the former a prominent farmer and businessman. Both have passed away. In their family were four children:
Harriet became the wife of Dr. Colfax Schulyer, a dentist of DeKalb and are the parents of two children; Lucy married Dr. Anson Smith, a dentist in Springfield Illinois and they have two children; Mary married H.W. McEwen, an attorney of DeKalb and a brother of Judge McEwen of Chicago and they also have two children. Dr. George E. Goodrich, the youngest child born to his parents was reared in DeKalb and there attended public school preparing himself for his college course at Kale Forest Academy. When he was seventeen he entered the University of Lake Forest but after one year became a student in the University of Chicago, where he remained two years. He then enrolled in Rush Medical College at Chicago graduating in 1905. In order to get the advantage of practical experience he served one year as Dr. J.B. Murphy's intern in the Presbyterian Hospital and then went to Clifton, Arizona where in the same year he was appointed assistant surgeon for the Arizona Copper Company. He did such able work that he was transferred in 1909 to Morenci and made chief surgeon of the company with charge of the hospital. He has acted in this capacity since that time. Dr. Goodrich married January 19, 1907 Miss Ruth Mason Wood, a native of Illinois and a daughter of E.O. and Amelia (Mason) Wood, residents of DeKalb where the father is a banker. In this family were four children: E.O. Jr who is in business in Champaign Illinois, Grace H. who resides with her parents in DeKalb; Harry C., a farmer of Macon Mississippi and Ruth M. the wife of Dr. Goodrich.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1920; 74: 740: Dr. George E. Goodrich, Phoenix, has been appointed state superintendent of health.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1921; 76: 386: Arizona. Free Clinic at Maricopa. The Maricopa County Health Center, organized by a citizens' committee headed by Dr. George E. Goodrich, state superintendent of public health, in association with the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Association, has established the first free clinic in the state.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1938; 111: 2227: George Erastus Goodrich, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1906; fellow of the American College of Surgeons ; on the staffs of St. Joseph's and Good Samaritan hospitals; surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital; aged 59 ; died, September 3, in Los Angeles of heart disease.
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