Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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Watkins, Evelyn Grace

Mentioned in the 2/9/1943 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Evelyn G. Watkins MD; license date: 4/8/1942; medical school: UNIV OF AR COLL OF MED, Little Rock, Arkansas; graduation date: 06/08/1936; area of interest: internal medicine.

JAMA, Mar 1967; 199: 872: Watkins, Evelyn Grace; Tucson, Ariz; Arkansas, 1936; died Nov 25, aged 55, of pulmonary emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, and pulmonary tuberculosis.

Watkins, H. H.

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 609: H.H. Watkins, who in 1883 opened the first drug store in Kingman and has continued in its successful conduct since that time, was born in California in 1858 and is a son of B.F. and Laura (Broughton) Watkins, natives of New York.

Watkins, Isaac Henry

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 377: Vanderbilt, 1890.

Watkins, Thomas

Arizona Medical Board record: Thomas Watkins MD; license number: 364; licensed date: 06/20/1908; license renewed: 06/20/1908; medical school: MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA; graduation date: 05/10/1904; area of interest: general practice
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 377: Medical College of Virginia, 1904.

Watkins, William Warner

1883-1956. Arrived in Arizona about 1907; moved to Phoenix in 1908. ArMA president: 1918 – and as ArMA Secretary in 1941 (see 4/8/1941 minutes)? Founded Pathological Laboratory in 1914; about 1930 still one of four directors including Drs. Harlan P. Mills, Clarence N. Boynton and William J. Horspool. In the 4/14/1942 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 listed as the Secretary of the Arizona Industrial Commission’s Industrial Relations Committee.

Watson, Samuel Humes

Arrived in Arizona about 1911. [Health seeker: TB]. ArMA president: 1929. Dates: 1877-1948. Associated with the Tucson, Arizona, Sanatorium; St. Mary’s Hospital and Sanatorium; Barfield’s Sanatorium; St. Luke’s In-The-Desert; and Anson’s Rest Home. Arizona Medical Board record: Samuel H. Watson MD; license number: 467; license date: 4/25/1912; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 05/25/1899.
Middle name sometimes appears as “Hume.”

Watters, Marcus Henry

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1958; 166: 1887: Watters, Marcus Henry, Helena, Mont.; George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C, 1905; at one time associated with the public health department in Washington, D. C; formerly on the staffs of the Veterans Administration hospitals in Fort Harrison, Mont., Whipple,
Ariz., and Wichita, Kan.; died in St. John's Hospital Jan. 29, aged 80, of pneumonia.

Watts, William Bowers, Jr.

Arizona Medical Board record: William B. Watts MD; license issued: 04/19/1920; medical school: MED COLL OF GA SCH OF MED, Augusta, Georgia; graduation date: 06/30/1915.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Wauneka, Annie Dodge

Arizona Daily Star, October 30, 2011, "The Best of Arizona: Native American leaders": Annie Dodge Wauneka: Wauneka won the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 for her work to improve Navajo health and, in particular, to eradicate tuberculosis. She wrote a dictionary to translate English medical terms into Navajo and served for 27 years on the tribal council.

Wayne, Charles Morse

Application of transfer from the Cook County Medical Society to PCMS approved on 4/9/1946. Arizona Medical Board record: Charles M. Wayne MD; license date: 4/6/1946; medical school: UNIV OF IL COLL OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 07/01/1931.

JAMA, May 1972; 220: 1023: Wayne, Charles Morse; Gardena, Calif ; University of Illinois, 1931 ; veteran of World War II ; died Nov 22, aged 64, of acute myocardial infarction.

Weadock, Jack F.

Mentioned in the 1953-04-09-05 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. “…of the Star.” Writer, novelist. Weadock wrote a weekly column in the Arizona Daily Star relating incidents of Arizona history.

Webb, P. G.

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 378.

Webb, Thomas Hopkins

Secretary, U.S. and Mexican Boundary Commission.
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, volume 7, 1854 - 1855, pages 7:220-225: Descriptions of new Coleoptera collected by Thos. H. Webb, M.D., in the years 1850-51 and 52, while Secretary to the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Commission. by JOHN L. LE CONTE, M. D. "Most of the species collected by Dr. Webb, have been already described by me from other sources, but the remaining nondescripts contain a comparatively greater number of large and beautiful species than any other collection yet obtained..."

Webb, Walter D.

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 378.