Miller, Joshua A.

1846-1901. Arrived in Yavapai County Jul 6, 1889 to practice medicine and mining. First ArMA president: 1892. Dates: May 5, 1846-July 22, 1901. Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Aug 26, 1891 and Aug 13, 1898.
Obituary: Arizona Medical Journal Oct 1940 2(9):7.
From ArMA website: J.A. Miller, MD. Born on May 5, 1846 in Makin County, Missouri, Dr. Miller was instrumental in organizing the medical profession in Arizona. He began with the Yavapai County Medical Society, then the Maricopa County Medical Society, then the Arizona Medical Association, all of which he was the first president. http://www.azmedassn.org/miller.html
In 1892, Dr. Joshua Miller, then president of the Maricopa County Medical Society, along with four other physicians, sent a letter to all of the physicians of Arizona, calling a meeting to organize a Territorial Medical Society. A few days later, Dr. Miller was elected the first president of the newly-formed Arizona Medical Association. http://www.azmedassn.org/mission_history.html
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 136.
Arizona Medicine. Oct, 1967.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
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 359.

J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1950; 143: 1188: ARIZONA. The Arizona Medical Association has just recently been incorporated. It was founded in 1892 with Dr. J. A. Miller, Phoenix, as its first president and Dr. L. D. Dameron, also of Phoenix, its first secretary. Central office headquarters is being maintained at 642 Security Building in Phoenix.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1901; XXXVII: 398: Joshua Miller, M.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1872, medical superintendent of the Arizona State Insane Asylum, died during July, at Flagstaff, Arizona, aged 55.
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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) 408-411; volume 10, page(s) 251,252
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