Born ~1877. Died May 26, 1958. Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jan 6, 1941 and Oct 16, 1944 and Jan 22, 1947.
Arizona Medical Board record: Jeremiah H. Metzger MD; license number: 454; license date: 10/19/1911; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/21/1901. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 123 S. Stone Ave., Tucson.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
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 358.
Ariz Med. 1958 Sep;15(9):655. JEREMIAH METZGER.
Charter member (October, 1947) of the Graduate Club of Tucson (see Fish, Robert. “Annals of the Graduate Club of Tucson,” Aug 28, 1971 in the "Oscar Andreas Thorup, Jr. Papers, 1965-1978" [AHSL HT 0017].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…came to Tucson in 1911 for his own health…”
Southwestern Medicine, May 1926; 10 (5): 245: Dr. Jeremiah Metzger, of Tucson, has taken charge of the New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium, at Silver City. It is said that Dr. Bullock, who has attained national prominence in tuberculosis work at this institution, is leaving Silver City. The information is not definite as to whether this is a permanent move by Dr. Metzger.
Southwestern Medicine, Jun 1926; 10 (6): 282: Dr. Jeremiah Metzger has gone to assume the position of Medical Director of the old and well established Bullock’s Sanatorium at Silver City, New Mexico. Dr. Metzger’s departure from Tucson will be felt by his many friends and professional brethren of Arizona.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1958; 167: 1860: Metzger, Jeremiah, Tucson, Ariz.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1901; member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association; member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1926; served as superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital; died in St. Mary's Hospital May 26, aged 81, of ruptured aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerosis.
Arizona Medical Board record: Jeremiah H. Metzger MD; license number: 454; license date: 10/19/1911; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/21/1901. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 123 S. Stone Ave., Tucson.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
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 358.
Ariz Med. 1958 Sep;15(9):655. JEREMIAH METZGER.
Charter member (October, 1947) of the Graduate Club of Tucson (see Fish, Robert. “Annals of the Graduate Club of Tucson,” Aug 28, 1971 in the "Oscar Andreas Thorup, Jr. Papers, 1965-1978" [AHSL HT 0017].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…came to Tucson in 1911 for his own health…”
Southwestern Medicine, May 1926; 10 (5): 245: Dr. Jeremiah Metzger, of Tucson, has taken charge of the New Mexico Cottage Sanatorium, at Silver City. It is said that Dr. Bullock, who has attained national prominence in tuberculosis work at this institution, is leaving Silver City. The information is not definite as to whether this is a permanent move by Dr. Metzger.
Southwestern Medicine, Jun 1926; 10 (6): 282: Dr. Jeremiah Metzger has gone to assume the position of Medical Director of the old and well established Bullock’s Sanatorium at Silver City, New Mexico. Dr. Metzger’s departure from Tucson will be felt by his many friends and professional brethren of Arizona.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1958; 167: 1860: Metzger, Jeremiah, Tucson, Ariz.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1901; member of the American Clinical and Climatological Association; member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1926; served as superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital; died in St. Mary's Hospital May 26, aged 81, of ruptured aortic aneurysm and arteriosclerosis.
Master pnID
AMH-PN2482
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PCMS-Min
History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 4, page(s) 397
PCMS pnID
pn0693
OHB Checked
y
Residence(s)
Tucson