Ora I. Tower
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

Dr. Ora I. Tower, filling the office of assistant U.S. 
railroad surgeon and engaged in the general practice of 
Medicine in Yuma in partnership with Dr. Henri ApJohn was 
born in Indiana in 1886 and acquired a public school 
education in that state.  He afterward attended the 
Danville State Normal school and then enrolled in the 
University of Louisville.  He was graduated in medicine 
from the University of California in June 1910 and 
afterward was for three months connected with a maternity 
hospital in Los Angeles following which he was intern in 
the Los Angeles County Hospital.  Dr. Tower came to Yuma 
Arizona in 1911 and shortly afterward was appointed 
Assistant U.S. railroad surgeon.

In February 1911 Dr. Tower married Miss Bessie B. 
Fairlie of Los Angeles. 





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