Lien, Fred Oscar

Metcalf's post office was established August 25, 1899 and discontinued May 15, 1936. Once a town of 4000 to 5000 people, now covered by mine tailings, Metcalf [in Greenlee County, Arizona] lasted through the depression years. The copper mine, originally discovered in 1870, was the mainstay of the town... Source: http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/az/metcalf.html

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1920; 74: 1178: HONORABLE DISCHARGES, MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. ... Metcalf -- Lien, F. O. (L. [=lieutenant])

J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1951; 147: 74: Lien, Fred Oscar Merced, Calif.; University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, 1914; served during World War I; on the staffs of Merced General Hospital and Mater Misericordiae Hospital, where he died June 23, aged 64, of carcinoma of the colon.