Transferred from the Bexar County, Texas Medical Society to the PCMS on 01/12/1926. Arizona Medical Board record: Robert K. Smith MD; license date: 10/6/1925; medical school: VANDERBILT UNIV SCH OF MED, Nashville, Tennessee; graduation date: 05/23/1911; address: PO Box 1409, Tucson. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
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].
From the May 1969 Arizona Medicine In Memoriam: "...King, as he was affectionately known to his contemporaries, was an outstanding obstetrician in Tucson from 1925 until his retirement in 1948. He was born in Stockdale, Texas in 1887... A graduate of Vanderbilt School of Medicine, he practiced in Elmendorf, Texas, until he moved to Arizona in 1925. He was president of the Pima County Medical Societ in 1935 and was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He served 11 months overseas in the Army Medical Corps in World War I..."
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1934; 102: 2208: Dr. Charles R. K. Swetnam, Prescott, was chosen president-elect of the Arizona State Medical Association at its annual meeting in Prescott, June 7-9; Dr. Meade Clyne, Tucson, was installed as president, and Dr. Clarence F. Harbridge, Phoenix, was reelected secretary. ...speakers included the following physicians: ... Robert K. Smith, Tucson, Postpartum Hemorrhage...
JAMA, Apr 1969; 208: 372: Smith, Robert King; Tucson, Ariz; Vanderbilt, 1911; past president of the Pima County Medical Society; served on the staff of St. Mary's hospital; died Dec 15, aged 81, of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.