Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Listed as an honorary member on 1940 PCMS letterhead.

J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1916; LXVII: 1684: Marriages. Anthony Thomas Weber, M.D., to Miss Hazel Lucile Berton, both of Chicago, at Crown Point, Ind., November 16.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1918; 70: 1307 - 1316: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. Illinois. ... To Fort Oglethorpe for instruction, ... Lieuts. JAMES A. LOMAS, ANTHONY T. WEBER, ...

Arizona Medical Board record: Frederick H. Weber MD; license issued: 01/27/1948; medical school: UNIV OF CO SCH OF MED, Denver, Colorado; graduation date: 06/05/1912.

Mentioned in the 1952-05-13-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Robert W. Weber MD; license date: 4/24/1951; medical school: UNIV OF CINCINNATI COLL OF MED, Cincinnati, Ohio; graduation date: 08/25/1944; area of interest: orthopedic surgery.

Mentioned in the 1953-06-10-04 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “[ArMA’s] $2,000.00 is designated for retelecast and for use of DeVries. They are picking up the tab until Webster increases the program to 30 minutes.”

Arizona Medical Board record: Clara S. Webster MD; license date: 7/10/1923; medical school: UNIV OF IL COLL OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/04/1907; area of interest: obstetrics and gynecology.
Name listed as “Clara Siepple Webster “in the 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory and address: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

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

J Am Med Assoc. 1950;142(3):193: James Rudolph Wedel, Keokuk, Iowa ; College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, 1897 ; past president of the Lee County Medical Society; affiliated with Graham Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital ; died November 9, aged 79, of hypostatic pneumonia.

JAMA, Jan 1969; 207: 164: Weeks, Carnes; Tucson, Ariz; Columbia Physicians and Surgeons, 1923; veteran of World War II; certified by the American Board of Surgery; died Sept 15, aged 67, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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: American Health College, Cincinnati, 1890; practiced vitapathic system
See also: Hayostek, Cindy. Douglas' First Physicians. Haystack Publications, Douglas, Arizona, 2011, pages 21-22.

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1935; 104: 324: The fourth annual midwinter clinical course in ophthalmology and otolaryngology given by the Research Study Club of Los Angeles opened January 21 and will continue until February 2. At a dinner meeting, January 28, of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the Research Study Club, the speakers will be ... and Webb W. Weeks, professor of ophthalmology, New York University, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.

Mentioned in the 1950-11-9-04 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “…according to Mr. Weeks at Tucson Medical Center, there is a need for at least one more iron lung for the community.” TMC administrator (see Grubbs). [ID not certain, but likely]

1908-2004. Professor of Pediatrics at Louisiana State University. Mentioned in the 1952-02-12 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Later, among other things, was dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. See http://www.sph.umich.edu/news_events/107press.html. See Brown VJ. Myron Ezra Wegman: spanning the century. Am J Public Health. 2005 Aug;95(8):1309-11, etc.

President of the Southern Arizona District Dental Society. Mentioned in the 1954-02-09 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Address: 2921 E Helen St, Tucson. Both a “Bernard S. Weiler” and a “Earl D. Weiler” (both at the same Tucson address: 762 N. Country Club) listed in the ASDA 1956-1957 member directory (published in the June 1956 Arizona Dental Journal.)

Family name appears as “Welsh” in the 12/1/1952 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Engle reported for the Building Committee, that Mr. Homer Boyd (recently defeated for reelection to the Board of Supervisors) felt that under the circumstances it would not do any good for him to appear now for the Society. Dr. Engle said that a meeting for next Wednesday night has been arranged with representatives from Tucson Medical Center, probably Colonel Welsh [Welch] and Harry Cameron, and at least two doctors, Dr. Bean, who will bring drawings, Dr.

Honorary president of Desert Sanatorium.
History of Arizona, 1930. Vol.3., p. 604.

J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1926; 86: 422: Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, honorary president of the Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona, Tucson, has been appointed on the board of directors of that institution for 1926, also Dr. Allen K. Krause of Baltimore; Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Tucson, has been elected president.

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.

J Am Med Assoc. 1899;XXXIII(19):1184: Change of Address: ... Wells, F. K., from Nogales, Ariz., to Victor, Col.
J Am Med Assoc. 1902;XXXIX(20):1262: Colorado. Dr. Frederick H. Welles, Victor, sustained a serious crushing injury of the right foot recently, in an elevator accident.

Mentioned in the 11/13/1934 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 (with middle initial W.). Name appears on the 11/13/1934 PCMD membership application as “Wells, Edmond D.”; additional application info: medical school: University of Louisville; date of graduation: 1910 (see 1926-00-22).
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 130 S. Stone Ave., Tucson.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “Wells, Edward Daniel”

Mentioned in the 5/00/1933, 5/00/1940 and other Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Mrs. W. Wells (Registration service)” Also referred to as Mrs. Wm. Wells. [Probably all the same person. Who was Mr. William Wells?] [Who is the Mrs. Wells referred to in the January 1, 1936 financial report: “Dec. 5, Langer’s (Flowers for Mrs. Wells)”? Elsie Wells?, A Mrs. Edmond W. Wells? Another person? (see also Wells, Edmond Daniel)]

Arizona Medical Board record: Gould T. Wells MD; license date: 7/5/1929; medical school: UNIV OF AR COLL OF MED, Little Rock, Arkansas; graduation date: 06/02/1927.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), page 338.

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1947; 135: 858: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR/OR RELIEVED FROM ACTIVE DUTY. Texas. Wells, Gould T. ... Austin.