Harbridge, Delamere Forest

Ophthalmologist. ArMA president: 1940. Dates: 1872-1959. Arizona Medical Board record: Delamere F. Harbridge MD; license date: 7/25/1913; medical school: UNIV OF PA SCH OF MED, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; graduation date: 06/09/1898; address: 855 E Edgemont Ave, Phoenix.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 160.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

AHSL has Dr. Harbridge’s 1887 [Gray’s] Anatomy, descriptive and surgical which he presented to the Maricopa County Medical Society in 1953. This volume “Wis. Col. P & S, Milwaukee” crossed out and “University of Penn. Department of Medicine” written in. It also has a “Greenwodd Bros. Pharmacists, Milwaukee” bookplate with Harbridge’s signature and “Wis. College Physicians & Surgeons” written in.
à Did Harbridge attend the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons (founded in 1893) before attending the University of Pennsylvania?

J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1901; XXXVI: 1797: Delamere Forest Harbridge, M.D., to Miss Cora Frances Brown, both of Philadelphia, June 12.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1923; 80: 1318: ARIZONA. University President Inaugurated. The inauguration of Cloyd H. Marvin as president of the University of Arizona, Tucson, occurred, April 23-24. Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, President of the American Medical Association, appointed Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge of Phoenix the official delegate to represent the Association at the inaugural ceremonies.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1948; 137: 652: At the annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association in Phoenix, May 19-21, Dr. Harold W. Kohl, Tucson, became president. ... The state society formed its first Fifty Year Club. Charter members included Drs. Francis W. Allen, Tucson, Lewis A. W. Burtch, Phoenix, Timothy T. Clohessy, Phoenix, Guy H. Fitzgerald, Tucson, Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, Robert N. Looney, Prescott, William R. Lyon, Tucson, E. Payne Palmer, Phoenix, Harry A. Reese, Yuma, Alexander M. Tuthill, Phoenix, and Clarence E. Yount, Prescott. They were presented bronze plaques at the dinner meeting.
JAMA, Jan 1960; 172: 360: Harbridge, Delamere Forest; Phoenix, Ariz.; born in Racine, Wis., June 18, 1872; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1898; member of the A. M. A. House of Delegates in 1921; specialist certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology; former secretary and president of the Arizona Medical Association; past-president of the Maricopa County Medical Society; member of the American Ophthalmological Society and the American College of Surgeons; at one time secretary-treasurer of the board of managers of Southwestern Medicine; died in Los Angeles Oct. 6, aged 87.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 3, page(s) 175; volume 9, page(s) 346; volume 10, page(s) 2,25,180-198,252,304-306;333-440; volume 11, page(s) 213,215,236,253,255,256
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