Practiced in Phoenix with her husband, Dr. Oscar L. Mahoney (q.v.) from 1884 to 1886 before becoming matron of the women’s ward at the Arizona State Hospital during her husband’s superintendency there.
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 201, 242, 357.
Family name incorrectly appears as "Russon" in some sources.
Census of women physicians. American Women's Hospitals, 1918, page 5: Arizona. ... Mahoney, Virginia ... 1106 W. Washington St., Phoenix, Maricopa Co.
Evans House History. About 1940, the historical American Buildings Survey conducted a survey of Phoenix to identify buildings of outstanding historical or architectural significance. Of those buildings selected only two remain standing; one is the Rosson House, the other is the Evans House which is located at the intersection of Eleventh Avenue and Washington. ... In 1908 the home was purchased by Oscar L. Mahoney for $6,000. Mahoney and his wife, Virginia, are probably the most notable people to have been associated with the development and occupation of the "Evans House". Both were doctors; he an 1867 graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, and she an 1883 graduate of the Women's Hospital Medical College of Chicago. The Mahoneys settled permanently in Phoenix in 1883 where they distinguished themselves in both joint practice and in singular situations. Oscar is best known as the first superintendent of the Territorial Insane Asylum. He also held positions as a city councilman, county coroner and superintendent at the County Hospital. Virginia was one of twenty-one women who filed diplomas from legitimate schools of medicine with county recorders during the territorial years. She was one of only four of these women to be licensed to practice by the medical examining board established in 1903. On April 27, 1910 Mahoney transferred the title to the house and property to his wife, Virginia, for "Love and Affection". He died in 1915; she in 1925 [in April 1924 per JAMA obituary], after which the house was sold to the Odd Fellows. Mrs. Gertrude Conway sold the house to the State of Arizona and in 1982 the State leased the house to the Arizona Architects Foundation.
Source: http://www.lib.az.us/extension/evans.cfm
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1924; 82: 1380: Virginia Mahoney, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Northwestern University Woman's Medical School, Chicago, 1883; aged 75; died, April 6, of senility.