Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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Litt, Theodore Ed(ward?).

Bender, George A. A history of Arizona pharmacy. [Glendale, Ariz.] : Arizona Pharmacy Historical Foundation, 1985, pages 34, 61. ~1925 Litt’s Drug Store was located in Tucson on the NE corner of Stone Ave. and Congress St. (See Arizona Historical Society photos AHS BN32936, BN41386, BN41390)

Little, Stillman David

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: arrived in Phoenix in 1911; [The “Dr. Little” in at 10:450 probably refers to Stillman David Little.]
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 244-245.

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1958; 166: 70: Little, Stillman David, Phoenix, Ariz.; Medical School of Maine, Portland, 1903; an associate member of the American Medical Association; died Oct. 18, aged 85, of cerebral thrombosis.

Littlefield, Harrie Augustus

J Am Med Assoc, May 1921; 76: 1318: Harrie Augustus Littlefield, Newberg, Ore. ; University of Oregon, Portland, 1897; aged 46; major, M. C, U. S. Army, and discharged, June 5, 1919; a veteran of the Spanish-American War; died at Tucson, Ariz., April 15, from pulmonary tuberculosis.

Littlefield, Jesse Braxton, Sr.

Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 have “Bracton.”
Transferred from Gonzales County Medical Society (Texas) on 02/16/1926. Arizona Medical Board record: Jesse B. Littlefield MD; license date: 1/6/1926; medical school: University of Texas Medical School, Unknown Location ; graduation date: 05/31/1922. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Lloyd, Cyrus D.

Lockwood, Brian

Loe, Fred

Loehrke, A., (Miss)

Name appears in the Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 as Loeherke, Loehrke, and Loerhke. Most likely “Loehrke” is the correct form.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930

Loew, Oscar

Wheeler expedition/survey, ca. 1870; physician-chemist-minerologist[?]

Loewy, Ignatz David

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

I. D. Loewy. Malta Fever: Four Cases. United States Vet. Bur. M. Bull., Washington, D. C., 6:(Aug.) 1930, pp. 635ff.

J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1916; LXVII: 1311: New Mexico. Dr. Ignatz D. Loewy has succeeded Dr. Thomas J. Cummins as medical director of St. Joseph's Sanitarium, Silver City.

Lojacono, Salvatore

Mentioned in the 1/12/1937 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Salvatore Lojacono MD; license date: 10/7/1936; medical school: R. UNRVESITIA DI MEDICINA, PODUA, Not Given; graduation date: 04/17/1917.
“Podua,” i.e. Padua/Padova, Italy.

Loken, Arnold B.

Practiced in 1951-1954.
Johnson, Scott. Something more: osteopathic medicine in southern Arizona. Tucson, Ariz. : Osteopathic Press, 1992, pages 37, 106.

Long, John B.

Longshore-Potts, Anna M.

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 354: “Longshore, Anna M.”

Looney, Robert Nelson

Dates: 1870-1962. Registered as a physician in Arizona in 1903. ArMA president: 1909.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), page 199.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 144.
Morgan, Learah Cooper. “The Pioneer Doctor” in Echoes of the Past : Tales of Old Yavapai. Volume 1. 1955, pp. 59-64. (Arizona Highways Magazine=holder of primary copyright)

Loos, Diane L.

Lopez, Bettina D.

Bender, George A. A history of Arizona pharmacy. [Glendale, Ariz.] : Arizona Pharmacy Historical Foundation, 1985: passim
See also: Davila, Monte [Bettina’s father]

In 1956, [Monte] Davila helped his daughter, Bettina, a registered pharmacist and the first woman named to the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy, acquire the South Stone Pharmacy. Father and daughter became business partners. The pharmacy was located in what is now the parking lot of Casa Vicente restaurant, at 375 S. Stone Ave.

Lord, Charles H.

Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “Dr. Charles H. Lord, a Civil War surgeon, came to town [Tucson] in 1866, but practiced briefly. He founded Lord & Williams Wholesale Mercantile Company. He was postmaster, and his company held Tucson’s first franchises (1880-1881) for gas and electric light plants and for a street railroad system. When his company failed, he left for the South.”