Cochan Sanitarium; formerly in Gila Bend?
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 439 1st Ave.,Yuma.
Arizona Medical Board record: Roy R. Knotts MD; address: 1340 W 3rd St, Yuma AZ; license number: 385; licensed date: 02/08/1909; medical school: WILLIAMETTE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; graduation date: 04/29/1908
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 352.
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 873.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 358, 359 [portrait]: One of the recognized leaders of the medical profession in southwestern Arizona is Dr. Roy R. Knotts, who has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Yuma for the past twenty one years and is now head of the Cochan Sanitarium. He was born in Oswego Oregon on the 19th day of July 1883 and is a son of Edward a. and Mary (Hackett) Knotts, both of whom were natives of Oregon City Oregon. The father who died in 1916 was a farmer in which calling he was successful and was prominent in the civic affairs of his community and county. To him and his wife were born four children, all of whom are living. Roy R. Knotts received his early education in the public and high schools at Tualatin, Oregon and then matriculated in the Willamette Medical College from which he graduated in 1908. Soon afterwards he came to Yuma, (Sept 11, 1908) and subsequently has commanded one of the largest medical practices in this section of the state. When the U.S. became involved in the European struggle, Dr. Knotts enlisted in the U.S. Medical Corps, in which he was commissioned a first lieutenant and attached to the Twenty second Engineers. He passed his examination with high honors and was sent to Camp Funston for training. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to France, where he had nearly a year of service, taking part in the Meuse-Argonne battle and second offensive, during which he was promoted to captain. After the Armistice he was held in France for some time, working in hospitals and assisting in the restoration of disabled soldiers. In 1919 he resigned his commission and returned to Yuma. He is president of the Cochan Sanitarium, which occupies the old Southern Pacific Depot building which after being remodeled, is well adapted to the purpose for which it is used. Dr. Knotts superintended the building of the Yuma Indian School Hospital and he is now physician of that school. He was formerly county health officer and he is on the medical staff of the Yuma General Hospital. Dr. Knotts was married to Maysie Christianson and they are the parents of two children, Roy R. Jr and Evelyn.
"The War Service of the Medical Profession: A Survey including the Names of Civilian Physicians in Military Service and a Tabulation of Statistics by Counties and States." J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1918; 70: 1648: Yuma County...YUMA -- Leon Jacobs ; Hilary Dunham Ketcherside ; Roy Raymond Knotts.
Southwestern Medicine, Aug 1926; 10 (8): 357: Announcement has come that Dr. R.R. Knotts, of Yuma, Ariz., of the opening of the Cochan Hotel Sanatorium, for the management and treatment of tuberculosis. Stress is laid in his announcement upon the climatic advantages of Yuma.
JAMA, Nov 1970; 214: 1719 - 1720: Knotts, Roy Raymond; Yuma, Ariz; University of Pennsylvania, 1908; died July 22, aged 87, of cerebrovascular accident, hypertensive cardiovascular disease, and arteriosclerosis.
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 439 1st Ave.,Yuma.
Arizona Medical Board record: Roy R. Knotts MD; address: 1340 W 3rd St, Yuma AZ; license number: 385; licensed date: 02/08/1909; medical school: WILLIAMETTE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE; graduation date: 04/29/1908
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 352.
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 873.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 358, 359 [portrait]: One of the recognized leaders of the medical profession in southwestern Arizona is Dr. Roy R. Knotts, who has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Yuma for the past twenty one years and is now head of the Cochan Sanitarium. He was born in Oswego Oregon on the 19th day of July 1883 and is a son of Edward a. and Mary (Hackett) Knotts, both of whom were natives of Oregon City Oregon. The father who died in 1916 was a farmer in which calling he was successful and was prominent in the civic affairs of his community and county. To him and his wife were born four children, all of whom are living. Roy R. Knotts received his early education in the public and high schools at Tualatin, Oregon and then matriculated in the Willamette Medical College from which he graduated in 1908. Soon afterwards he came to Yuma, (Sept 11, 1908) and subsequently has commanded one of the largest medical practices in this section of the state. When the U.S. became involved in the European struggle, Dr. Knotts enlisted in the U.S. Medical Corps, in which he was commissioned a first lieutenant and attached to the Twenty second Engineers. He passed his examination with high honors and was sent to Camp Funston for training. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to France, where he had nearly a year of service, taking part in the Meuse-Argonne battle and second offensive, during which he was promoted to captain. After the Armistice he was held in France for some time, working in hospitals and assisting in the restoration of disabled soldiers. In 1919 he resigned his commission and returned to Yuma. He is president of the Cochan Sanitarium, which occupies the old Southern Pacific Depot building which after being remodeled, is well adapted to the purpose for which it is used. Dr. Knotts superintended the building of the Yuma Indian School Hospital and he is now physician of that school. He was formerly county health officer and he is on the medical staff of the Yuma General Hospital. Dr. Knotts was married to Maysie Christianson and they are the parents of two children, Roy R. Jr and Evelyn.
"The War Service of the Medical Profession: A Survey including the Names of Civilian Physicians in Military Service and a Tabulation of Statistics by Counties and States." J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1918; 70: 1648: Yuma County...YUMA -- Leon Jacobs ; Hilary Dunham Ketcherside ; Roy Raymond Knotts.
Southwestern Medicine, Aug 1926; 10 (8): 357: Announcement has come that Dr. R.R. Knotts, of Yuma, Ariz., of the opening of the Cochan Hotel Sanatorium, for the management and treatment of tuberculosis. Stress is laid in his announcement upon the climatic advantages of Yuma.
JAMA, Nov 1970; 214: 1719 - 1720: Knotts, Roy Raymond; Yuma, Ariz; University of Pennsylvania, 1908; died July 22, aged 87, of cerebrovascular accident, hypertensive cardiovascular disease, and arteriosclerosis.
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