Mimiaga, Francisco (“Francis”)

Born March 9, 1873. Francisco, aka Francis.
Arizona Medical Board record information (source: Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections, v. 4, p. 434 [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]): Mimiaga, Francisco (Francis) | License #375 | Oct. 19, 1908 | Age -- 35 | Nogales | Medical school: National College P. & S. -- Mexico City, Mex. | Graduated -- Apr. 26, 1901| Previous residences: Mexico City D.F. -- Apr. 1901-Sept. 1901; Nogales, Mexico -- Oct. 1901-date. | License issued under: 1903. | Fee -- $12.00 | Duplicate license issued Dec. 16, 1914. License #580 -- Duplicate. “This license issued to replace license No. 375 -- issued Oct. 19, 1908, and said to have been destroyed by fire. J.W.T.”
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.

Born at Oaxaca, Mexico, March 9, 1873. He is the son of Jose M. and Genoveva Ramires Mimiaga. He was reared and educated in his native country, studied medicine at the Nacional College, Mexico City, from which he was graduated in 1901, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Mexico. In 1908 he was admitted to practice in Arizona, and is frequently called in consultation with American physicians, is sanitary inspector the Mexican side of Nogales, and was chief surgeon of the City Hospital prior to its closing at the beginning of the Madero revolution. He is also consulting surgeon for the Southern Pacific Railroad of Sonora. Has two daughters, Amalia and Ana. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (page 665)(photo).

3/9/1921 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Motion was made & carried that owing to the condition of his health the dues of Dr. Mimiaga for 1921 be remitted and that the secretary notify him of this action.” And see 5/3/1918 minutes and the Report of Treasurer 1919 [ 1918 ?] -1920 (page 136).

Two Nogales, Sonora Mimiagas listed in the 1912 Polk's Arizona Pictorial Gazetteer And Business Directory:
Mimiaga Francisco, phys (Nogales Sonora) and Mimiaga M, lawyer (Nogales Sonora). Source: http://files.usgwarchives.org/az/santacruz/directories/business/1912/nog...

Portrait of Dr. Francisco Mimiaga, circa 1916. Source: Arizona Memory Project (http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/ahsmexican/id/15...)

Any relation [?] wife/widow[?]:
De entre las personas que fueron Administradoras de este hospital podemos citar: a Doña Norberta Vda. de Mimiaga, enfermera Consuelo Suárez, señora Isabel Tamayo, señora Ofelia Elías. [circa 1920s?]
Source: Mascareñas S., Enrique. El Nogales de Ayer, Capítulo VIII: Servicios asistenciales [http://www.musicaehistoria.com/el_nogales_de_ayer_cap_ocho.htm]
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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) 434
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Nogales