Palmer, Ralph Fleetwood

Dates: 1875-1954
Nickname “Robb”
Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jan 31, 1933.
Arizona Medical Board record: Ralph F. Palmer MD; license number: 53; license issued: 05/23/1903; medical school: PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS; graduation date: 05/23/1903.
Mentioned in the 1939-12-12-01Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “A paper, ‘Injection Treatment for Hernia’, was presented by Dr. Ralph Palmer of Phoenix.”

Palmer, Ralph F. Doctor on horseback : a collection of anecdotes largely but not exclusively medically oriented. [Mesa, Ariz.] : Mesa Historical & Archaeological Society, c1979.

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]: 9:219 [Excerpt from Interview with Dr. Joseph Madison Greer…2 May 1960]: “…Roosevelt Dam was the only one that was constructed here at that time and all of the other dams were constructed following 1920. … I was associated with Dr. Robb Palmer in the construction of these dams.”
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 11: “Dr. Ralph Palmer of Mesa who had a lot of industrial experience during the building of the Roosevelt Dam…”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 362.
See also: McClintock, James H. Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern; the Nation's Youngest Commonwealth within a Land of Ancient Culture. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916 (aka Arizona, the Youngest State), volume 3 (Biographical), pages 73-74.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 235-236.

J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1912; LVIII: 1693: New Officers.--SouthSide Medical Society of Tempe and Mesa: president, Dr. B. B. Moeur, Tempe; secretary-treasurer, Dr. R. F. Palmer, Mesa.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1912; LVIII: 1693: Dr.R. F. Palmer, founder and manager of the South Side Hospital, Mesa, has leased the institution to Mrs.M. E. Smith.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1937; 108: 1546: Dr. Harold W. Rice, Bisbee, was chosen president-elect of the Arizona State Medical Association at its annual meeting in Yuma, April 1-3, and Dr. Chester R. Swackhamer, Superior, was installed as president. ... In addition to many other Arizona physicians on the program, the following participated in a session on industrial relations : Dr. Ralph F. Palmer, Phoenix, Industrial Surgery in Arizona; Responsibility of Organized Medicine and the Individual Industrial Surgeon.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1955; 157: 674: Palmer, Ralph Fleetwood, Mesa, Ariz.; College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, School of Medicine of the University of Illinois, 1900; served as mayor; examiner for the Selective Service from 1942 to 1947; founder of Mesa Southside District Hospital; died in Phoenix Dec. 17, aged 79, of coronary arteriosclerosis.