Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

See 1926-00-09: In 1929 the Secretary-Treasurer-Editor of the Oklahoma State Medical Association.

J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1933; 101: 1330: Claude Allen Thompson, Muskogee, Okla. ; Kansas City (Mo.) Medical College, 1900 ; member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1911 and in 1922 ; for many years secretary of the Oklahoma State Medical Association ; editor of the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association; aged 58; died, October 2, of a self-inflicted bullet wound.

Mother of Karen Lee Thompson (q.v.).

1906-1988. Arrived in Tucson in 1936. ArMA president: 1955. Arizona Medical Board record: Harry E. Thompson MD; license date: 7/3/1935; medical school: NWU, FEINBERG SCH OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/20/1935; address: 310 N Wilmot Rd Ste 209, Tucson; areas of interest: internal medicine and rheumatology. Middle name given as “Edward” on 1926-00-24 PCMS membership application.
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 1615 E. 5th St., Tucson.

Daughter of Mrs. Floyd C. Thompson (q.v.).

J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1920; 75: 1149: Richard Samuel Thompson, Tucson, Ariz. ; Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1905 ; aged 45 ; at one time health officer of Vancouver, Wash. ; died on the Salt River Indian reservation, near Phoenix, September 18, from tuberculosis.

Name also appears as “Basil Thompson”
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 716 Consolidated Bank Bldg., Tucson.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Mentioned in the 1954-04-08-15 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Engle – It is really a funny setup but the Blue Shield invited us up. When we got there this original plan, which is bad on the face of it, which was adopted by their professional committee, Hastings, Thornburg, Dave James, and Wally Reid [ Reed ], they thought it was acceptable, and on the basis of that the Blue Shield office went ahead and put an actuary on the job, spent a lot of money to pay the actuarial costs, on this.”

Mentioned in the 1952-03-06-05 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Manning ... felt that it might be possible to get nationally known men for speakers it they could be assured of more than two talks.... He stated that the Veterans and county society are each willing to pay $150.00, as is Phoenix and also Prescott; that the list contains such men as Dr. Lahey and Dr. George Thorne; that an effort had been made to choose men who would interest everybody.”

Perhaps George Clifford Thorne?

Mentioned in the 1952-07-10-05 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

cf. PCMS list: Thornton, George F.

Brother-in-law: Dr. Edward Burt Perrin (q.v.)
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 363 (Perrin entry) and page 375.

Arizona Medical Board record: Sherman W. Thorpe MD; license issued: 07/19/1958; medical school: TEMPLE UNIV SCH OF MED; graduation date: 06/17/1948.

JAMA, Sep 2000; 284: 1314: THORPE, Sherman William, 74; Mesa, Ariz; Temple University School of Medicine, 1948; certified by the American Board of Surgery; died December 24, 1999.

1922-2002. Founding faculty member of the University of Arizona College of Medicine and its first Department of Internal Medicine chairperson.

Leavell, Byrd S. and Oscar A. Thorup, Jr. Fundamentals of clinical hematology. (various editions) [by] Byrd S. Leavell [and] Oscar A. Thorup, Jr.

Arizona Medical Board record: Oscar A. Thorup MD; license date: 01/14/1967; medical school: SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA; graduation date: 03/20/1946.

“Dr. Oscar A. Thorup: One of UA College of Medicine's Founders Dies,” AHSC Office of Public Affairs.