Yount, Clarence Edgar, Sr.

1874-1954. Arrived in Prescott in 1902. ArMA president: 1919.
Arizona Medical Board record: Clarence E. Yount MD; license number: 97; [license date: 5/27/1903]; medical school: GEORGETOWN UNIV SCH OF MED, Washington, District Of Columbia; graduation date: 06/01/1896; address: 212 S. Mt. Vernon, Prescott. Yavapai County Medical Society charter member.
[All references in the Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 to Yount – except for the 5/25/1953 minutes – are thought to references to C.E. Yount, Sr. C.E. Yount, Jr. received his Arizona license 10/2/1935. He was out of state in military service during much (most/all?) of WWII. It is speculated that the Yount telegrams referred to in the 1949 minutes may have been somehow related to C.E. Yount, Sr.’s health condition. In 1949 he had asked the Yavapai County Medical Society to accept his resignation as secretary-treasure because of poor health. Phillips writes that his request was ultimately ignored.] From ArMA website: A former chemistry teacher, Dr. Yount did extensive research on rabies and screwworm and reported his observations in professional journals and before meetings of the Arizona Medical Association. In 1907, with Dr. H.D. Thomason of Fort Whipple, Dr. Yount gave the first spinal anesthesia to a patient in Arizona. After serving in World War I, Dr. Yount was elected president of ArMA in 1919. http://www.azmedassn.org/timeline.html
Official List of Officers of Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. Volume VI. August 31, 1919, p. 45: Arizona. ... Medical Department. Medical Section. ... Lieutenant Colonel. ... Yount, Clarence Edgar ... 130 East Gurley Street, Prescott ... Date of birth: Feb. 14, 1874.
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=d8RBAAAAIAAJ
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 439-441.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 149.
Phillips, Melvin W. Mile hi docs. Prescott, AZ : [M & J Pub. Co.], 1996, pages 170-175.
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 381.
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 381-382: Dr. Clarence Edgar Yount, a prominent and successful representative of the medical fraternity in Prescott has there practiced his profession continuously since 1902. His birth occurred in Iowa in 1874, his parents being E.M. and Laura (Musselman) Yount. He acquired his early education in the graded schools and afterward pursued a high school course at Washington D.C., his father being connected with the Bureau of Pensions in the nation's capital. Having determined upon a professional career, Clarence E. Yount entered the medical department of Georgetown University and was graduated from that institution in 1896. He subsequently practiced in Washington until 1902 and then came to Arizona, locating in Prescott, which has since remained the scene of his professional labors. An extensive and steadily growing practice has been accorded him as he has demonstrated his ability in coping with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician in his efforts to restore health and prolong health. Through his membership in a number of medical societies he keeps in close touch with the progress of his profession. Dr. Yount was formerly contract surgeon of the United States Army at Whipple Barracks and now serves as surgeon to the National Guard, with the rank of major. On the 14th of December, 1904, Dr. Yount was united in marriage to Miss Clara N. Criley, a daughter of Dr. J.M. Criley, a resident of Prescott but a native of Ohio. Our subject and his wife have three children: Clarence E. Jr., Robert E. and Martha.

Note: “Former City of Prescott health officer Dr. Clarence E. Yount wrote a comprehensive book about the history of Prescott before he died in 1954.”
Source: Daily Courier (Prescott, AZ) 4/18/2009: http://www.dcourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=67216
See also: http://sharlot.org/archives/history/dayspast/text/2007_11_04.shtml

J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 64: Yavapai County Medical Society. -- This society was organized on the standard plan at Prescott, June 18, with 14 charter members. The following officers were elected: Dr. Thomas B. Davis, president; Dr. Will S. Smith, vice-president, and Dr. Clarence E. Yount, secretary-treasurer, all of Prescott; delegates to the Arizona Medical Association, Drs. J. W. Coleman, Jerome, and John S. Barrett, Prescott; and censors, Drs. Henry D. Thomason, U. S. Army, Whipple Barracks, James N. McCandless, Prescott, and John Dennett, Jr., Congress.
"The War Service of the Medical Profession: A Survey including the Names of Civilian Physicians in Military Service and a Tabulation of Statistics by Counties and States."
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1918; 70: 1648: Yavapai County...PRESCOTT -- Harry T. Southworth; SELIGMAN -- Francis Huston Cartnell ; C. E. Yount.
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. Francis W. Allen, Tucson, Lewis A. W. Burtch, Phoenix, Timothy T. Clohessy, Phoenix, Guy H. Fitzgerald, Tucson, Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, Robert N. Looney, Prescott, William R. Lyon, Tucson, E. Payne Palmer, Phoenix, Harry A. Reese, Yuma, Alexander M. Tuthill, Phoenix, and Clarence E. Yount, Prescott. They were presented bronze plaques at the dinner meeting.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1954; 155: 297: Yount, Clarence Edgar; Prescott, Ariz.; Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D. C, 1896; past president, secretary, and treasurer of the Arizona State Medical Association; served as secretary-treasurer of the Yavapai County Medical Society, of which he was president in 1909; affiliated with Yavapai Community Hospital; fellow of the American College of Surgeons; died March 10. aged 80, of coronary thrombosis.
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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) 610-613; volume 7, page(s) 390,391,397,402,404,405; volume 9, page(s) 218,267-286; volume 10, page(s) 252,253,448; volume 11, page(s) 235,253,255,256; volume 12, page(s) 192-193,215
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