Tower, Ora Isaiah

U.S. railroad surgeon; also in partnership with Ap John, Henri, (McClintock, page 910).
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 375.
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 812: Dr. Ora I. Tower, filling the office of assistant U.S. railroad surgeon and engaged in the general practice of Medicine in Yuma in partnership with Dr. Henri ApJohn was born in Indiana in 1886 and acquired a public school education in that state. He afterward attended the Danville State Normal school and then enrolled in the University of Louisville. He was graduated in medicine from the University of California in June 1910 and afterward was for three months connected with a maternity hospital in Los Angeles following which he was intern in the Los Angeles County Hospital. Dr. Tower came to Yuma Arizona in 1911 and shortly afterward was appointed Assistant U.S. railroad surgeon. In February 1911 Dr. Tower married Miss Bessie B. Fairlie of Los Angeles.

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1918; 71: 1747: COMMISSIONS OFFERED AND ORDERS TO DUTY ON ACCEPTANCE. California. ... To Camp Kearney, Calif., ... O. I. TOWER, Los Angeles....
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1933; 101: 1408: Ora Isaiah Tower, Los Angeles ; University of California Medical School, Los Angeles, 1910; member of the California Medical Association ; aged 47 ; died, September 4, in Newport Beach, of angina pectoris.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
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