Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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Jacobs, Helen

Walking tour honors women of distinction by Bonnie Henry, Arizona Daily Star, January 24, 2010: Helen Jacobs' personal tragedy prompted her to buy a home in Tucson in 1922 and convert it into the Stork's Nest maternity ward. Asked if she had ever lost a mother, she answered, "Only one," her daughter, who had died in childbirth in Bisbee. ... Stork's Nest. A maternity home for Tucson women from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was operated by Helen Jacobs and staffed by nurses night and day.

Jacobs, Leon

Official List of Officers of Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. Supplemental to Volume VI. September 1, 1919, to December 31, 1919, p. 18: Arizona. ... Medical Department. Medical Section. Majors. Jacobs, Leon ... Yuma ... Date of birth: Nov. 27, 1878.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=d8RBAAAAIAAJ
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Jacobus, Preston N.

1865_1911. See 10/16/1910 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.
“…P. N. Jacobus, a speculative builder who later became Mayor of Tucson, purchased on[e?] half of a block on Fourth Street between Second and Third Avenues.” (10/16/1910 minutes)
Tucson mayor: 11/4/1909-January 1912 (succeeded by I.E. Huffman MD (q.v.))

James, David C.

Mentioned in the 1954-04-08-15 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Probably David C. James.
See Arizona Medical Board record: David C. James MD; license date: 10/4/1947; medical school: NEW YORK UNIV SCH OF MED, New York, New York; graduation date: 06/07/1939.

JAMA, Mar 1987; 257: 1405: JAMES, David C, 73, Phoenix; New York University School of Medicine, 1939; certified by the American Board of Surgery; died Dec 16,1986.

James, Harry Joseph

Given name: "Harry" (not "Henry"). See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1907; XLIX: 613: Canada. Drs. Harry James and J. S. Pritchard, Toronto, have been added to the resident staff of the Muskoka Sanatorium.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1908; LI: 230: IOWA. Dr. H. J. James, formerly assistant physician at Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, Canada, has been appointed assistant superintendent at the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, Oakdale.

James, Howard Currie

Arizona Medical Board record: Howard C. James MD; license date: 10/2/1935. Mentioned in the 2/11/1936 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Not certain if the May 9, 1933 James is this one.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: vol. 7, page 387 is probably same person.

James, Samuel H.

Middle name “Henry”[?]
See 11/11/1924 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.
After Dr. Neill MacArtan's death, James became the second Medical Officer in Charge at the U.S. Public Service Hospital No. 51 (at Pastime Park). He served from 1922-1924 and was transferred to the U.S. Veterans Hospital No. 64 at Camp Kearney, California. November 27, 1924. Later he served again as the director of the Tucson Veterans Hospital from 1930-1943.
See Southern Arizona VA Health Care System 75th Anniversary Report 1928-2003.

Janda, Charles Anthony

Mentioned in the 5/14/1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Charles A. Janda MD; medical school graduation date: 6/13/1934.

JAMA, May 1975; 232: 666: JANDA, Charles Anthony; Tucson, Ariz; Loyola University School of Medicine, Chicago, 1934; died Nov 9, aged 66, of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.