Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Mentioned in the 10/10/1939 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. “J. Donald” in the 1947-12-09 minutes. See 1926-00-33 membership application card: Tucson address: c/o The Wyatt Clinic; previous license: Ohio, 1931; previous county membership: Hocking County, Ohio Medical Society.
Arizona Medical Board record: James D. Francis MD; license issued: 09/26/1939; medical school: GEORGETOWN UNIV SCH OF MED, Washington, District of Columbia; graduation date: 06/09/1930.

Mentioned in the 5/11/1948 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Kenneth Francis (Publicity—Co. Hospital)”

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 342.

J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1918; 70: 1773: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. Arizona. To report by wire to the commanding general, Southern Department, for duty, Lieut. RICHARD McC. FRANCIS, Williams.

April 19, 1912 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “[...resolutions] requesting the Fidelity & Causualty of New York to exibit correspondence thru their agents Franklin & Heighton with reference to Policy issued to Dr. Mark Rodgers for years 1909-1910 and 1911.” See http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/az/pima/directories/business/1912/t...

01/20/1931 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Member 1931.
See Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673], vol. 2, p. 294.

JAMA, Dec 1993; 270: 2744: FRANKLIN, Dorothy M., 93; Irvine, Calif; University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1928; died May 16, 1991.
JAMA, Jan 1994; 271: 248E: FRANKLIN, Dorothy M., 93; Irvine, Calif; University of Illinois College of Medicine, 1928; died May 16, 1991.

March 18, 1995 Arizona Daily Star obituary.
Author: John F. Rawlinson

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

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1933; 100: 1183: The annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association will be held at Tucson, April 20-22, with headquarters at the Santa Rita Hotel under the presidency of Dr. Clarence Gunter, Globe. Scientific meetings will be in the Scottish Rite Temple. The following physicians are on the program : ... Henry L. Franklin, Phoenix, Refractive Errors in Their Relation to General Medicine. ...

Most likely the “Alan Franklin” mentioned in the Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 refers to this “Robert Alan Franklin.”
Mentioned in the 1953-01-08-04 minutes: “The matter of advertising in bold-face type in the classified section of the telephone book was clarified, the telephone company having inadvertently done this in the case of Dr. Nathan Schneck without his request. Inquiry of the Los Angeles County Medical Association revealed that Dr. Alan Franklyn is not a member of that Association and his ad was placed by him personally.”

Fraser or Frazer…or Fraiser[?] à correct spelling not known at this point.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1905; XLIV: 1869: List of new members of the American Medical Association during the month of May, 1905: ARIZONA. ... Frazer, Alex I., Kofa.
American Medical Directory, vol. 1, 1906, page 1197: Fraser, Alexander, Kofa, Ariz.

Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 342: Fraser, A.I. Graduate, Los Angeles Medical College, 1895. Registered May 23, 1903. Residence: Kofa since 1900.

Mentioned in the 5/13/1947 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. “Frazer” in the 1951-11-13 minutes. Appears as “James Fraser” in the 1953-01-08-01 minutes. James? Jr.?
Arizona Medical Board record: George Fraser MD; license issued: 04/06/1946; medical school: NWU, FEINBERG SCH OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/15/1940.

Practiced 1946-1967.
Johnson, Scott. Something more: osteopathic medicine in southern Arizona. Tucson, Ariz. : Osteopathic Press, 1992, pages 33-34, 44, 46, 105.
Arizona Medical Board record: Homer Melvin Fredericks DO; license initial issue date: 09/26/1946.

J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1953; 153: 502: Freedman, I. Val; Phoenix, Ariz.; Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 1909; an Associate Fellow of the American Medical Association; member of the Illinois State Medical Society; died in Chicago Aug. 3, aged 71, of coronary occlusion.