Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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West, Oscar Caldwell

Arizona Medical Board record: Oscar C. West MD; license number: 1123; licensed date: 01/02/1929; medical school: Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, ATLANTA, Georgia; graduation date: 04/03/1899.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

West, William Kirby

Mentioned in the 1950-10-05-02 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: William K. West MD; license date: 4/22/1950; medical school: SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY; graduation date: 09/24/1944.

Westerfeld, (Dr.)

Mentioned in the 1/14/1941 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Carrell introduced Dr. Westerfeld to discuss the medical program for the examination of boys of the NYA [ National Youth Administration ]. Dr. Carrell explained the proposition and referred the NYA program to the Economics Committee for consideration and report.”

Westervelt, Marcus W.

Mentioned in the 1950-11-14-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. M.W. Westervelt, of Tempe, Arizona, was introduced by Dr. Storts, and talked on the ‘Medical Aspects of Atomic Warfare’. Dr. Westervelt also showed several fine descriptive films on this subject.”
Arizona Medical Board record: Marcus W. Westervelt MD; license date: 10/6/1937; medical school: UNIV OF CINCINNATI COLL OF MED, Cincinnati, Ohio; graduation date: 06/05/1936; area of interest: family practice.

Westfall, Stuart Wayne

Mentioned in the 1952-01-10-06 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Stuart W. Westfall MD; license date: 7/22/1949; medical school: NEW YORK UNIV MED COLL; graduation date: 03/24/1943.

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1946; 132: 726: NAVAL RESERVE MEDICAL OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR RELEASE FROM ACTIVE DUTY. New York. Westfall, Stuart W. ... Buffalo.
JAMA, Oct 1980; 244: 1626: WESTFALL, Stuart W., 61, Tucson, Ariz; State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, 1943; died June 12, 1980.

Wharton, Junius E.

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “Wharton” and “Whorton”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 378: “Wharton”

Wharton, William Martin

Mentioned in the 1951-11-13 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: William M. Wharton MD; license date: 8/8/1950; medical school: U OF TX SOUTHWESTERN MED SCH AT DALLAS, Dallas, Texas; graduation date: 06/06/1949.

Wheatley, Logan W.

Gave the invocation on April 21, 1914 at the ArMA annual meeting in Tucson (see Arizona Medical Journal Apr 1914 2(3):30).
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), pages 509-510.

Whedon, Daniel Denison

Denison or Dennison?
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “Dennison”
See Quebbeman: Whedon, Daniel Dennison. Graduate, Long Island College, 1905. Registered July 16, 1906. Residence: Tucson. (p. 378)

J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1907; XLVIII: 1036: Dr. D. D. Whedon, Tucson, has been appointed physician of Pima County.
D. D. Whedon, San Diego, Cal.. Trifacial Neuralgia. Southern California Practitioner, Los Angeles. February, 1910, p. 164ff.

Whitaker, Clem

Hired to handle the public relations of AMA. Mentioned in the 1949-03-07-02. Wikipedia: “Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter were a husband-and-wife team that started the first true political consulting firm in the United States of America, named Campaigns, Inc.”