Looney, Robert Nelson

Dates: 1870-1962. Registered as a physician in Arizona in 1903. ArMA president: 1909.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), page 199.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 144.
Morgan, Learah Cooper. “The Pioneer Doctor” in Echoes of the Past : Tales of Old Yavapai. Volume 1. 1955, pp. 59-64. (Arizona Highways Magazine=holder of primary copyright)
Phillips, Melvin W. Mile hi docs. Prescott, AZ : [M & J Pub. Co.], 1996, pages 188-192.
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, pages 257-258, 354.
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 391-392.
"...A post office was established on Dec. 31, 1897, and operated until 1917. The mining camp of McCabe [Arizona] averaged 450 people and included a small, six-bed hospital operated by Dr. Robert N. Looney..."
Source: Ascarza, William. Arizona Daily Star, April 3, 2016.

Born in Tennessee, July 6, 1870. Graduated from the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1898. In the same year he came to Arizona, locating at McCabe, Yavapai County, where he practiced for six years. In 1904 he took a post-graduate course in medicine in the Polyclinic [possibly spelled Polyclynic?] Hospital of New York, after which he moved to Prescott, Arizona. . In March, 1912, he was appointed by Governor Hunt to his position of State Superintendent of Health. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 670-671).

JAKE DG. Ariz Med. 1962 Jan;19:14-7. The return of the Wapiti to Arizona. A salute to Robert N. LOONEY, pioneer Arizona physician.

J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1912; LVIII: 1693: Dr. R. N. Looney, Prescott, has been appointed superintendent of public health, vice Dr. E. S. Godfrey.
State Superintendent of Public Health = State Board of Health?
J Am Med Assoc, May 1914; LXII: 1666: State Health Officers Elect. -- At the third annual meeting of the Arizona Association of State and County Health Officers held in Tucson, April 24. Dr. George D. Troutman, Tucson, was elected president, Dr. Henry A. Hughes, Phoenix, vice-president, and Dr. Robert N. Looney, Prescott, secretary.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1917; LXIX: 1451: Dr. J. Bernard Nelson, Mesa, has been appointed superintendent of public health of the state, succeeding Dr. Robert N. Looney, Prescott.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1948; 137: 652: At the annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association in Phoenix, May 19-21, Dr. Harold W. Kohl, Tucson, became president. ... The state society formed its first Fifty Year Club. Charter members included Drs. Francis W. Allen, Tucson, Lewis A. W. Burtch, Phoenix, Timothy T. Clohessy, Phoenix, Guy H. Fitzgerald, Tucson, Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, Robert N. Looney, Prescott, William R. Lyon, Tucson, E. Payne Palmer, Phoenix, Harry A. Reese, Yuma, Alexander M. Tuthill, Phoenix, and Clarence E. Yount, Prescott. They were presented bronze plaques at the dinner meeting.
JAMA, Oct 1962; 182: 206: Looney, Robert Nelson - Prescott, Ariz.; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., 1898; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; past-president of the Arizona Medical Association; formerly county superintendent of public health; for many years chief surgeon for the Santa Fe Railway Company; at one time secretary and superintendent of public health for the Arizona Board of Health; for many years bank director; died June 2, aged 91.