Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “Dr. Charles H. Lord, a Civil War surgeon, came to town [Tucson] in 1866, but practiced briefly. He founded Lord & Williams Wholesale Mercantile Company. He was postmaster, and his company held Tucson’s first franchises (1880-1881) for gas and electric light plants and for a street railroad system. When his company failed, he left for the South.”
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673], 4:233: “Dr. C. H. Sord [i.e., Lord] and wife came to Arizona in 1874 from Elizabeth, New Jersey and settled in Tucson.”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 354.
Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City by C. L. Sonnichsen. pp. 92, 93, 95 [photo]: Another big firm was Lord and Williams. The guiding hand belonged to Charles H. Lord, a medical doctor who came out of the Civil War a major and appeared in Arizona as a contract surgeon at the Cerro Colorado Mine south of Tucson in 1866. By 1869, in partnership with Postmaster W.W. Williams, he had become involved in various mercantile ventures, including banking, mining, and government contracts....
See also: Buehman, Estelle M. Old Tucson; a hop, skip and jump history from 1539 Indian settlement to new and greater Tucson. Tucson, Ariz., State Consolidated Publishing Co., 1911, page 20. http://archive.org/details/oldtucsonhopskip00bueh
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673], 4:233: “Dr. C. H. Sord [i.e., Lord] and wife came to Arizona in 1874 from Elizabeth, New Jersey and settled in Tucson.”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 354.
Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City by C. L. Sonnichsen. pp. 92, 93, 95 [photo]: Another big firm was Lord and Williams. The guiding hand belonged to Charles H. Lord, a medical doctor who came out of the Civil War a major and appeared in Arizona as a contract surgeon at the Cerro Colorado Mine south of Tucson in 1866. By 1869, in partnership with Postmaster W.W. Williams, he had become involved in various mercantile ventures, including banking, mining, and government contracts....
See also: Buehman, Estelle M. Old Tucson; a hop, skip and jump history from 1539 Indian settlement to new and greater Tucson. Tucson, Ariz., State Consolidated Publishing Co., 1911, page 20. http://archive.org/details/oldtucsonhopskip00bueh
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 4, page(s) 221,233
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