Beginning about March 14, 1883 a regularly occurring ad for the Grand Central Hotel began appearing in the Arizona Daily Star. Here’s text from the May 18, 1884 ad: “Grand Central Hotel. Dr. W.J. White, Proprietor, on the European Plan. First Class Restaurant Connected with the Hotel. $1.50-$3 per day. Most centrally located hotel in the city … The only hotel in the city with telephone connection with Fort Lowell, free to all officers of the U.S. Army.”
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona gazetteer and business directory (1884), page 614: [Tucson] Grand Central Hotel, W J White propr, cor[ner] Maiden Lane and Church.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=2CIzAQAAIAAJ
See also: Tucson and Tombstone general and business directory, for 1883 and 1884 ... Daily Citizen Steam Printing Establishment, 1883. [see White’s Grand Central Hotel ad on third to last page]
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmpNAAAAYAAJ
Listed in Directory of the City of Tucson for the Year 1881 (http://openlibrary.org/details/directoryofcityo00bartrich), p. 112: WHITE, DR. W.J., surgeon dentist, 128 Camp st.
Professional ad, Arizona Citizen front page May 8, 1881 (ad repeated May 15, 1881): DR. W.J. WHITE | SURGEON-DENTIST | CONGRESS STREET, TUCSON, A.T., | Opposite Safford, Hudson & Co.'s bank | Satisfaction guaranteed.
1884 Gazetteer and Business Directory: W.J. White, propr Grand Central Hotel, co Maiden lane & Church.
1883-1884 Tucson-Tombstone Directory (published by the Arizona Citizen): White, Dr. W.J. Grand Central Hotel, s. Church st., opp. Postoffice.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmpNAAAAYAAJ
Dr. White's diploma not registered with Pima County.
Dr. W.J. White was in Tucson in 1884 and while here oversaw the exhumation and removal of bodies from a downtown military cemetery to a relocated Fort Lowell.
See: A Cemetery and What Followed: An Assessment of Cultural Resources for the Proposed Pima County Justice Courts Complex, Tucson, Arizona. Statistical Research, Inc., 2005.
http://www.pima.gov/JointCourts/PDFs/HistoryProjectArea.pdf
For Dr. White, see pages 36-39, 44 & 199 [in PDF pages 50-53, 58 & 212].
See also: Tucson’s National Cemetery: Additional Archival Research for the Joint Courts Complex Project, Tucson, Arizona. Statistical Research, Inc., 2006. http://www.pima.gov/JointCourts/PDFs/SRI_JCC_Archival_Report.pdf
For Dr. White, see pages 16, 26, 36, 97 & 231 [in PDF pages 28, 38, 109 & 243].
See also 11/17/2007 Arizona Daily Star article "Old military remains to get fitting reburial" http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/212135.
Same person[?]:
From Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections, v. 6, p. 454 [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “2/4/[18]93 -- TN. Left Wed. for California, to be gone some time, At Whipple in early days. -- Arizona Republican -- June 25, 1892: Dr. W.J. White returned to Phoenix today from a trip in the lower part of the territory.”
Another Dr. White[?]:
See also v.3, p. 41: “At Whipple in early days: Dr. Gilmer; Dr. White | the [18]70s[?]”
NOTE: At this time there’s no reason to believe that the Lancaser, South Carolina White & the Tucson White were the same person.
Not verified that the Lancaster W.J. White is the same person as the Tucson W.J. White
See also March 11, 2008 PCMS History Committee minutes: “In 1884 a physician oversaw the national cemetery exhumation and body removal to Fort Lowell. His name was W.J. White.” Per 5/13/2008 PCMS History Committee minutes White graduated from a South Carolina medical college in 1866 (probably a reference to the Medical College of South Carolina (Charleston) (see http://www.musc.edu/history.html).
June 10, 1840 - November 5, 1907 (died in Spencer, North Carolina; buried in West Side Cemetery, Lancaster, South Carolina).
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1907; XLIX: 2168: W. J. White, M.D. Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, 1866; for many years a practitioner of Lancaster, S. C; died November 5, at the home of his son in Spencer, N. C, after a lingering illness, aged 68.
Are any of these at all relevant? (Probably not)
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1894; XXII: 172: New Hospital at Buffalo [New York]. -- A certificate of incorporation for the Buffalo "Fresh-Air" Mission Hospital was filed with the County Clerk of Erie County, January 24. The incorporators are Sherman S.Rogers, P.H.Griffin, Henry W. Sprague William H. Wright, Jr., William J. White, John R.Williams, Frederick Truscott, George L. Williams, Paul C. Ransom, Mary B. Utley, Harriet R. Milinowski and Helen W. Almy. ... The Hospital is to be located in the town of Hamburg.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1900; XXXV: 530: Army Changes. ... Robert M. O'Reilly, lieutenant-colonel, deputy surgeon-general, U. S. ., relieved from the command of the Josiah Simpson General Hospital, Fort Monroe, Va., and will turn over the quartermaster's property, for which he is responsible, to Major William J. White, quartermaster, Vols., and dispose of the property of the medical department under instructions from the surgeon-general.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1900; XXXV: 892: Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania opened its one hundred and sixtieth annual session on September 28. The medical department began its session on October 1. Several changes have been made in the faculty since the last term: Dr. William J. White becomes John Rhea Barton professor of surgery....
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1924; 83: 363: INDIANA. Dr. Christopher M. Reyher has been appointed health officer of Gary to succeed Dr. William J. White.
W. J. White, Washington, D. C. Full-Time Health Officer. Florida Medical Association Journal, St. Augustine and Jacksonville, 11:(Sept.) 1924, p. 57.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona gazetteer and business directory (1884), page 614: [Tucson] Grand Central Hotel, W J White propr, cor[ner] Maiden Lane and Church.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=2CIzAQAAIAAJ
See also: Tucson and Tombstone general and business directory, for 1883 and 1884 ... Daily Citizen Steam Printing Establishment, 1883. [see White’s Grand Central Hotel ad on third to last page]
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmpNAAAAYAAJ
Listed in Directory of the City of Tucson for the Year 1881 (http://openlibrary.org/details/directoryofcityo00bartrich), p. 112: WHITE, DR. W.J., surgeon dentist, 128 Camp st.
Professional ad, Arizona Citizen front page May 8, 1881 (ad repeated May 15, 1881): DR. W.J. WHITE | SURGEON-DENTIST | CONGRESS STREET, TUCSON, A.T., | Opposite Safford, Hudson & Co.'s bank | Satisfaction guaranteed.
1884 Gazetteer and Business Directory: W.J. White, propr Grand Central Hotel, co Maiden lane & Church.
1883-1884 Tucson-Tombstone Directory (published by the Arizona Citizen): White, Dr. W.J. Grand Central Hotel, s. Church st., opp. Postoffice.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=bmpNAAAAYAAJ
Dr. White's diploma not registered with Pima County.
Dr. W.J. White was in Tucson in 1884 and while here oversaw the exhumation and removal of bodies from a downtown military cemetery to a relocated Fort Lowell.
See: A Cemetery and What Followed: An Assessment of Cultural Resources for the Proposed Pima County Justice Courts Complex, Tucson, Arizona. Statistical Research, Inc., 2005.
http://www.pima.gov/JointCourts/PDFs/HistoryProjectArea.pdf
For Dr. White, see pages 36-39, 44 & 199 [in PDF pages 50-53, 58 & 212].
See also: Tucson’s National Cemetery: Additional Archival Research for the Joint Courts Complex Project, Tucson, Arizona. Statistical Research, Inc., 2006. http://www.pima.gov/JointCourts/PDFs/SRI_JCC_Archival_Report.pdf
For Dr. White, see pages 16, 26, 36, 97 & 231 [in PDF pages 28, 38, 109 & 243].
See also 11/17/2007 Arizona Daily Star article "Old military remains to get fitting reburial" http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/212135.
Same person[?]:
From Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections, v. 6, p. 454 [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “2/4/[18]93 -- TN. Left Wed. for California, to be gone some time, At Whipple in early days. -- Arizona Republican -- June 25, 1892: Dr. W.J. White returned to Phoenix today from a trip in the lower part of the territory.”
Another Dr. White[?]:
See also v.3, p. 41: “At Whipple in early days: Dr. Gilmer; Dr. White | the [18]70s[?]”
NOTE: At this time there’s no reason to believe that the Lancaser, South Carolina White & the Tucson White were the same person.
Not verified that the Lancaster W.J. White is the same person as the Tucson W.J. White
See also March 11, 2008 PCMS History Committee minutes: “In 1884 a physician oversaw the national cemetery exhumation and body removal to Fort Lowell. His name was W.J. White.” Per 5/13/2008 PCMS History Committee minutes White graduated from a South Carolina medical college in 1866 (probably a reference to the Medical College of South Carolina (Charleston) (see http://www.musc.edu/history.html).
June 10, 1840 - November 5, 1907 (died in Spencer, North Carolina; buried in West Side Cemetery, Lancaster, South Carolina).
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1907; XLIX: 2168: W. J. White, M.D. Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, 1866; for many years a practitioner of Lancaster, S. C; died November 5, at the home of his son in Spencer, N. C, after a lingering illness, aged 68.
Are any of these at all relevant? (Probably not)
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1894; XXII: 172: New Hospital at Buffalo [New York]. -- A certificate of incorporation for the Buffalo "Fresh-Air" Mission Hospital was filed with the County Clerk of Erie County, January 24. The incorporators are Sherman S.Rogers, P.H.Griffin, Henry W. Sprague William H. Wright, Jr., William J. White, John R.Williams, Frederick Truscott, George L. Williams, Paul C. Ransom, Mary B. Utley, Harriet R. Milinowski and Helen W. Almy. ... The Hospital is to be located in the town of Hamburg.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1900; XXXV: 530: Army Changes. ... Robert M. O'Reilly, lieutenant-colonel, deputy surgeon-general, U. S. ., relieved from the command of the Josiah Simpson General Hospital, Fort Monroe, Va., and will turn over the quartermaster's property, for which he is responsible, to Major William J. White, quartermaster, Vols., and dispose of the property of the medical department under instructions from the surgeon-general.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1900; XXXV: 892: Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania opened its one hundred and sixtieth annual session on September 28. The medical department began its session on October 1. Several changes have been made in the faculty since the last term: Dr. William J. White becomes John Rhea Barton professor of surgery....
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1924; 83: 363: INDIANA. Dr. Christopher M. Reyher has been appointed health officer of Gary to succeed Dr. William J. White.
W. J. White, Washington, D. C. Full-Time Health Officer. Florida Medical Association Journal, St. Augustine and Jacksonville, 11:(Sept.) 1924, p. 57.
Master pnID
AMH-PN4009
Src1 DP
AHSL-DP
Residence(s)
Fort Whipple?
Tucson
Phoenix?