Arizona Medical Board record: Clara S. Webster MD; license date: 7/10/1923; medical school: UNIV OF IL COLL OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/04/1907; area of interest: obstetrics and gynecology.
Name listed as “Clara Siepple Webster “in the 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory and address: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “The third [woman admitted to the Society] was Dr. Clara Seippel Webster, 1931, who retired in 1953.” [Was Dr. Webster the third or the second woman admitted? See entries for Starr, Lillis Wood and Closson, Esther Marjorie. P0344: Webster’s application dated 3/5/1928.]
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1915; LXV: 2253: Marriages. Clara Pauline Seippel, M.D., to Robert A. Widdowson, both of Chicago, in Minneapolis, December 11.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1927; 89: 1339: ARIZONA. Dr. Webster Appointed Dean of Women -- Changeof Name. Dr. Clara P. Seippel Webster, formerly of Chicago, has been appointed dean of women at the University of Arizona, Tucson. By virtue of a decree of the superior court of Pima County, her surname was changed from Widdowson, as was that of Robert A. Webster.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1929; 93: 924: Dr. Clara Seippel Webster has resigned as dean and medical adviser of women at the University of Arizona. After spending the summer in Vienna and Berlin, she will return to Tucson.
JAMA, Aug 1965; 193: 416: Webster, Clara Seippel, Tucson, Ariz; University of Illinois, 1907; formerly on the faculty of her alma mater; served as medical adviser and dean of women at the University of Arizona; member of the staffs of St. Mary's Hospital and Southern Methodist Hospital; died April 6, aged 87, of a fractured femur complicated by infection and adrenal insufficiency.
See Lo Vecchio, Janyolyn. “Dr. Clara Webster, pioneer Tucson physician.” Sombrero 39:10 Dec 2006. 18-19.
Name listed as “Clara Siepple Webster “in the 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory and address: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “The third [woman admitted to the Society] was Dr. Clara Seippel Webster, 1931, who retired in 1953.” [Was Dr. Webster the third or the second woman admitted? See entries for Starr, Lillis Wood and Closson, Esther Marjorie. P0344: Webster’s application dated 3/5/1928.]
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1915; LXV: 2253: Marriages. Clara Pauline Seippel, M.D., to Robert A. Widdowson, both of Chicago, in Minneapolis, December 11.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1927; 89: 1339: ARIZONA. Dr. Webster Appointed Dean of Women -- Changeof Name. Dr. Clara P. Seippel Webster, formerly of Chicago, has been appointed dean of women at the University of Arizona, Tucson. By virtue of a decree of the superior court of Pima County, her surname was changed from Widdowson, as was that of Robert A. Webster.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1929; 93: 924: Dr. Clara Seippel Webster has resigned as dean and medical adviser of women at the University of Arizona. After spending the summer in Vienna and Berlin, she will return to Tucson.
JAMA, Aug 1965; 193: 416: Webster, Clara Seippel, Tucson, Ariz; University of Illinois, 1907; formerly on the faculty of her alma mater; served as medical adviser and dean of women at the University of Arizona; member of the staffs of St. Mary's Hospital and Southern Methodist Hospital; died April 6, aged 87, of a fractured femur complicated by infection and adrenal insufficiency.
See Lo Vecchio, Janyolyn. “Dr. Clara Webster, pioneer Tucson physician.” Sombrero 39:10 Dec 2006. 18-19.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 6, page(s) 65; volume 12, page(s) 19
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Tucson