Thibodo, Oliver John

Fl. 1870s.
Brother of Dr. Augustus J. Thibodo (q.v.)
See Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: 2/268-269, 6/279-280.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 374.
Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 6, pages 195-196: “In May, 1872, Dr. Thibodo, from Wickenburg, and Dr. Forbes, from Tucson, located in the town to practice their profession in partnership. They were the first medical practitioners in Phoenix. … In the later part of 1872, Dr. Forbes opened the first drugstore in the town in connection with his practice. Dr. Thibodo lived in Phoenix for many years erecting the ‘Thibodo Building’ on the south side of Washington Street, between Center Street and First Avenue, where he conducted a drugstore until his removal to California, in the later nineties, where he passed away. Before removing to California he married the widow of Johnny Le Barr, who had been assassinated on Washington Street by a man named McCluskey.”

J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1910; 55: 2251: Oliver J. Thibodo, M.D. Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., 1857; a pioneer practitioner of Phoenix. Ariz; for many years a surgeon on transatlantic steamers; died at the home of his daughter in Los Angeles, November 20, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 70.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 2, page(s) 268-269; volume 6, page(s) 279,280
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Wickenburg
Phoenix