Clarence Yount


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Doctor Clarence E. Yount (b. 1874 – d. 1954) was born on February 14, 1874 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He received his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1896. During his internship at Columbia Women's Hospital, he contracted tuberculosis. Dr. Yount moved to Prescott, Arizona in May, 1902, and married Clara Mae Criley in December 1904. He was an organizer of the Yavapai County Medical Society in 1904 and served as its president and secretary-treasurer. Also in 1904, he was a contract physician with the Army at Fort Whipple. He was a member and once president of the Rotary Club. He served as health officer for the City of Prescott from 1933 - February 1951 and was on staff at Yavapai County Hospital, Mercy Hospital, and Prescott Community Hospital. In addition, he was the attending specialist of general surgery at the Veterans Hospital from 1923 to 1933. Dr. Yount was a former chemist and did research on rabies. He was the first doctor to do a spinal anesthesia or spinal block in Arizona. He served in World War I as the regimental surgeon for the 40th Division and the assistant division surgeon. He had three children, Clarence E. Jr., Martha, and Robert E. He died on March 10, 1954 at the age of eighty.

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