W. R. Tipton Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS -281-BC
Scope and Content
The collection contains 2 ledger books which Dr. W.R. Tipton used to track the payments received from his patients for medical services rendered. The recorded transactions are handwritten and document activity between 1893 and 1917. Both volumes have an A-Z index of patients' names and are organized chronologically. Both volumes reflect Tipton's practice around Las Vegas, NM.
Dates
- 1893-1917
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Copy Restrictions
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Biography
Dr. William R. Tipton, doctor and surgeon in Las Vegas, New Mexico, was born in Missouri in 1854. He came to New Mexico with his family in 1860, settling at Watrous. He attended elementary school in Santa Fe and Tiptonville, New Mexico (name predates Dr. Tipton), and later attended medical school at the University of Missouri and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, graduating in 1877. His first practice was in Moberly, Missouri, where he was the Assistant Chief Surgeon for the Wabash Railroad. Soon after, Tipton returned to New Mexico and opened a private practice in Tiptonville, 1877-1880. Tipton spent most of his career practicing medicine in and around Las Vegas, New Mexico. His specialties included trauma surgery and, later in his career, neuropsychiatry.
Tipton's medical career was long, distinguished, and had a major impact on medicine in New Mexico. He used his Spanish fluency to lobby politicians in Santa Fe for a medical society and, later, as a simultaneous translator at the society's functions. He founded the Las Vegas Medical Society in 1882 and helped establish the New Mexico Medical Society as well. He was superintendent of the Las Vegas Hospital for the Insane (1897-1906), Regent of the Normal University at Las Vegas from 1902-1906, and helped establish medical standards as President of the New Mexico Medical Society in 1885, 1888, 1893, and 1895. He was also Vice-President of the American Medical Association three times.
Tipton married Elizabeth Duncan in 1878. He died in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1924.
Tipton's medical career was long, distinguished, and had a major impact on medicine in New Mexico. He used his Spanish fluency to lobby politicians in Santa Fe for a medical society and, later, as a simultaneous translator at the society's functions. He founded the Las Vegas Medical Society in 1882 and helped establish the New Mexico Medical Society as well. He was superintendent of the Las Vegas Hospital for the Insane (1897-1906), Regent of the Normal University at Las Vegas from 1902-1906, and helped establish medical standards as President of the New Mexico Medical Society in 1885, 1888, 1893, and 1895. He was also Vice-President of the American Medical Association three times.
Tipton married Elizabeth Duncan in 1878. He died in Las Vegas, New Mexico, in 1924.
Extent
2 Volumes
Abstract
The William Reuben Tipton Records consists of two ledger books in which Dr. Tipton kept track of the accounts of his patients, 1893-1917.
Relevant Secondary Sources
- Spidle, Jake W., Jr. Doctors of Medicine in New Mexico: A History of Health and Medical Practice, 1886-1986. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
- Title
- Finding Aid of the W. R. Tipton Papers, 1893-1917
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Author
- Processed by Tad McIlwraith
- Date
- ©2002
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
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Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu