Swope, Samuel Durfey

J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1901; XXXVI: 400: Southwestern Medical Association of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Mexico. -- This Association met, at El Paso, Texas, January 23, for organization, and elected Dr. Charles T. Race, El Paso, Texas, president; Drs. Samuel D. Swope, Deming, N.M., T.H. Swayne, Chihuahua, Mexico, and Hiram W. Fenner, Tucson, Ariz., vice-presidents; Dr. John J. Gilbride, El Paso, Texas, secretary, and Dr. Stephen T. Turner. El Paso, Texas, treasurer.
J Am Med Assoc. 1911;LVII(19):1548: Railway Surgeons Meet. ... The second annual meeting of the Railway Surgical Association of the Southwest was held in El Paso, Tex., October 20 and 21. and the following officers were elected: president. Dr. Frances E. Shine, Bisbee, Ariz.; vice-presidents. Drs. John W. Colbert, Aubuquerque, N. Mex., and Carlos E. Husk, Santa Barbara, Mexico; secretary-treasurer, Dr. Herbert E. Stevenson, El Paso, Tex., and trustees, Drs. Samuel D. Swope, Deming, N. Mex.; H. F. Bailey, Courtland, Ariz., and William L. Brown, El Paso, Tex.

Southwestern Medicine, Dec 1926; X(12), page 544: ... The first paper was by Dr. S. D. Swope, of Chihuahua, Mexico, who has charge of the Hospital Department of the American Refining and Smelting Company in that city, the largest lead producing plant in the world....
Southwestern Medicine, Dec 1926; X(12), page 547: Dr. S.D. Swope recalled the beginning of the New Mexico Bulletin in 1896. He realized the necessity of some sort of mouthpiece then, and has never changed his mind. The combination of the New Mexico Medical Journal, the Arizona Medical Journal, and the El Paso County Bulletin into our Southwestern Medicine, perfected by this Association [i.e., Medical and Surgical Association of the Southwest], has been our best accomplishment. Our journal has no need to be ashamed; it ranks high among the state journals.

J Am Med Assoc. 1946;132(8):466: Samuel Durfey Swope, El Paso, Texas ; University of Louisville (Ky.) Medical Department, 1887; born in Henderson, Ky., Nov. 5, 1864; member of the Southern Psychiatric Association ; fellow of the American College of Surgeons ; specialist certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology ; delegate from New Mexico to the American Medical Association in 1913, 1915 and 1916; served as president of the New Mexico Health Officers' Association; served as surgeon in the New Mexico National Guard; during World War I served overseas as surgeon of the 143d Machine Gun Battalion: during World War II was neurologist and psychiatrist on the medical examining board at the Fort Bliss reception center; major, medical reserve corps, U. S. Army, not on active duty ; at one time mayor of Deming, N. M. ; consultant in psychiatry for the El Paso City-County Hospital and on the staffs of Hotel Dieu, Masonic Hospital and Southwestern General Hospital ; died June 13, aged 81, of coronary occlusion.
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Deming NM
Chihuahua Mexico
El Paso TX