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 373.
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), page 244: Dr. Robert M. Tafel who since 1904 has been numbered among the medical practioners in Phoenix, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 27th of July 1858. His parents were Louis D. and Statira (Shannon) Tafel. The father, who was born in Germany followed the profession of bookkeeping as a life work. The mother, a native of Pennsylvania was of Dutch descent, her ancestors having come to this country in 1710. Dr. Tafel was a high school student in Pittsburgh and afterward attended the Pittsburgh Pharmaceutical College. The knowledge there gained has been of inestimable value to him in the discharge of his professional duties. He took up the study of medicine in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati Ohio and in 1895 was graduated from the Bennett Medical College of Chicago. He then located for practice in that city, where he remained until 1904--the year of his arrival in Phoenix. Here he has since continued and in the intervening period of twelve years has made continuous progress, the steps in his orderly progression being easily discernible. His professional duties are constantly making greater and greater demand upon his time and energies and he gives undivided allegiance to his profession, recognizing the grave responsibilities which devolve upon the physician in his effort to check the ravages of disease, restore health and prolong life. In 1898 Dr. Tafel was married to Miss Elizabeth Bast, a native of Pittsburgh and of German lineage. They had two children, now deceased.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1912; LIX: 43: At the meeting for organization of the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Wm. A. Holt, Globe, was elected president; Dr. R. M. Tafel, Phoenix, vice-president, and Dr. John Wix Thomas, Phoenix, secretary-treasurer.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1935; 105: 816: Robert M. Tafel, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, 1895; aged 76; died, July 3, in Williams, of myocarditis and coronary thrombosis.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 373.
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), page 244: Dr. Robert M. Tafel who since 1904 has been numbered among the medical practioners in Phoenix, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 27th of July 1858. His parents were Louis D. and Statira (Shannon) Tafel. The father, who was born in Germany followed the profession of bookkeeping as a life work. The mother, a native of Pennsylvania was of Dutch descent, her ancestors having come to this country in 1710. Dr. Tafel was a high school student in Pittsburgh and afterward attended the Pittsburgh Pharmaceutical College. The knowledge there gained has been of inestimable value to him in the discharge of his professional duties. He took up the study of medicine in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati Ohio and in 1895 was graduated from the Bennett Medical College of Chicago. He then located for practice in that city, where he remained until 1904--the year of his arrival in Phoenix. Here he has since continued and in the intervening period of twelve years has made continuous progress, the steps in his orderly progression being easily discernible. His professional duties are constantly making greater and greater demand upon his time and energies and he gives undivided allegiance to his profession, recognizing the grave responsibilities which devolve upon the physician in his effort to check the ravages of disease, restore health and prolong life. In 1898 Dr. Tafel was married to Miss Elizabeth Bast, a native of Pittsburgh and of German lineage. They had two children, now deceased.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1912; LIX: 43: At the meeting for organization of the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Wm. A. Holt, Globe, was elected president; Dr. R. M. Tafel, Phoenix, vice-president, and Dr. John Wix Thomas, Phoenix, secretary-treasurer.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1935; 105: 816: Robert M. Tafel, Phoenix, Ariz. ; Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, 1895; aged 76; died, July 3, in Williams, of myocarditis and coronary thrombosis.
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