Tuthill, Alexander MacKenzie

MacKenzie or Mackenzie?
1871-1958. Arrived in Arizona 1904. Moved practice from Morenci to Phoenix in 1920. ArMA president: 1920. State Director of Selective Service (1942-12-08-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954).
Arizona Medical Board record: Alexander M. Tuthill MD; license number: 207; license date: 3/8/1904; medical school: KECK SCH OF MED OF THE USC, Los Angeles, California; graduation date: 06/30/1895.
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 376.
See also: Portrait and biographical record of Arizona. Commemorating the achievements of citizens who have contributed to the progress of Arizona and the development of its resources. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1901, pages 683-684: Alexander M. Tuthill, M.D.
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), pages 928-929.

Born in South Lebanon, N. Y., September 22, 1871. Graduated from the medical department of the University of Southern California, at Los Angeles in 1895, and for the following three years engaged in the practice of his profession in Los Angeles, where he met with encouraging success. He was then offered the position of physician for the Detroit Copper Mining Company of Arizona, at Morenci, which he accepted, and Morenci has since been his home. In January, 1901, he became Chief Surgeon for the Arizona Copper Company at Morenci, and also had charge of the Longfellow Hospital at that place. Dr. Tuthill is Commanding Colonel in the First Infantry, N. G. A. [National Guard of Arizona?]. He is also interested in mining, having claims in the Copper Mountain District, and in New Mexico. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 192-193).
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 149.

In 1929, the ninth legislature appropriated money for the construction of Fort Alexander M. Tuthill, south of Flagstaff as a Guard training site. Today Ft. Tuthill is a recreational complex for Luke Air Force Base.
http://www.az.ngb.army.mil/Museum/morehistory.htm (9/8/2008)

Fort Tuthill was named after General Alexander M. Tuthill. A distinguished industrial surgeon in civil life and member of Arizona's constitutional convention General Tuthill served as a Colonel commanding the 1st Arizona Infantry later designated as the 158th Infantry, Brigadier General Commanding the 79th Brigade 40th Division A.E.F., Brigadier General Commanding the 89th Brigade 45th Division, Major General commanding the 45th Infantry Division, and Adjutant General of Arizona from 1936 to 1952.

Constructed in 1929, Fort Tuthill was considered one of the finest National Guard Training facilities in the U.S. The Fort served as the permanent field-training site for the 158th Infantry Regiment of the Arizona National Guard. http://flagstaff.ltbx.net/community/local/news/index.php?pID=0c1ce31cf62... (9/8/2008)

See: Alexander MacKenzie Tuthill, 1871-1958. Ariz Med. 1958 Nov;15(11):816-27
See: J W Kennedy. Another pithy pioneer physician of territorial Arizona. Alexander M, Tuthill, M.D. (More affectionately known as "King Tut"). Ariz Med. Feb 1972 (Vol. 29, Issue 2, Pages 137-9).
Mentioned in: Gordon, Linda. The great Arizona orphan abduction. (1999).

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1912; LIX: 1980: New Society.--The Greenlee Country Medical Society was organized October 19 with a charter membership of fourteen: Dr. A. M. Tuthill, Morenci, President; Dr. E. R. McPheeters, Clifton, vice-president; Dr. Edward N. Reed, Clifton, secretary, and Dr. L. A. W. Burtch, Clifton, Treasurer.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1917; LXVIII: 1635: STATE COMMITTEES OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, MEDICAL SECTION. ... The new committees which will be known as the State Committees of National Defense, Medical Section, are as follows : Arizona. ... Tuthill, A. M., Morenci.
J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1923; 80: 258: ARIZONA. Governor Hunt has appointed Dr. Frederick T. Fahlen, Phoenix, as state superintendent of public health to succeed Alexander M. Tuthill of Phoenix.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1948; 137: 652: At the annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association in Phoenix, May 19-21, Dr. Harold W. Kohl, Tucson, became president. ... The state society formed its first Fifty Year Club. Charter members included Drs. ... Alexander M. Tuthill, Phoenix.... They were presented bronze plaques at the dinner meeting.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1958; 167: 1864: Tuthill, Alexander Mackenzie; Phoenix, Ariz.; born in South Lebanon, N. Y., Sept. 22, 1871; University of Southern California College of Medicine, Los Angeles, 1895; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; past-president of the Maricopa County Medical Society, Greenlee County Medical Society, and the Arizona Medical Association; superintendent of public health in Arizona, 1921-1922; from 1903 to 1916 chief surgeon for the Detroit Copper Company in Morenci; for many years served in the Arizona National Guard, retiring as a major general; served as adjutant general for the state of Arizona and as state director of Civil Defense and of Selective Service; veteran of World War I; member of the Arizona Constitutional Convention; on the staffs of the Memorial, Good Samaritan, and St. Joseph hospitals; died in the Veterans Administration Hospital May 25, aged 86, of arteriosclerosis and nephrosclerosis.