Father: Dr. P. B. Purcell (q.v.)
Diploma recorded in Pima County Mar 31, 1896. Owner of third automobile in Tucson, Purcell was killed Feb 27, 1910—in an automobile accident. Dates: 1868-1910. (Not “William”). Father: P.B. Purcell. Nash: “1910: Dr. Walter Purcell, winner of the 1907 Desert Race from Los Angeles, becomes one of the first physicians in America to die in a car accident.”
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, pages 263-264, 365.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…Dr. Purcell, the latter being killed that year [1910] when his car overturned near the San Xavier mines.”
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1910; LIV: 990: Walter B. Purcell, M.D. Gross Medical College. Denver, 1890; of Tucson, Ariz.; a member of the American Medical Association; while on his way from Tucson to Twin Buttes, February 27, was crushed under his automobile and instantly killed, aged 41.
See the entry for Purcell’s brother, Sylvester W., an attorney of Tucson and Probate Court Judge of Pima County, in Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 176-177). The entry makes a passing reference to W.B. Purcell.
Diploma recorded in Pima County Mar 31, 1896. Owner of third automobile in Tucson, Purcell was killed Feb 27, 1910—in an automobile accident. Dates: 1868-1910. (Not “William”). Father: P.B. Purcell. Nash: “1910: Dr. Walter Purcell, winner of the 1907 Desert Race from Los Angeles, becomes one of the first physicians in America to die in a car accident.”
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, pages 263-264, 365.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…Dr. Purcell, the latter being killed that year [1910] when his car overturned near the San Xavier mines.”
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1910; LIV: 990: Walter B. Purcell, M.D. Gross Medical College. Denver, 1890; of Tucson, Ariz.; a member of the American Medical Association; while on his way from Tucson to Twin Buttes, February 27, was crushed under his automobile and instantly killed, aged 41.
See the entry for Purcell’s brother, Sylvester W., an attorney of Tucson and Probate Court Judge of Pima County, in Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 176-177). The entry makes a passing reference to W.B. Purcell.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 5, page(s) 253,254
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pn0848
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Tucson