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Show He graduated with an M.D. degree and interned in the County Hospital, then practiced medicine Richfield, Utah. Dr. Miles is a member of U.S.M.A. DR. MILTON T. RIGBY old Salt Lake in came to Midvale in 1932 to join Alley and Dr. J. O. Jones at 47 East Center Street. He occupied the office vacated by Dr. Guy Wight who had moved to Salt Lake City to join his father in his dental practice. Dr. Rigby was born in Newton, Utah June 7,1905. He has a twin brother, Dr. M. F. Rigby. He graduated from the South Cache High School 1925 and attended the Dr. Milton T. Dr. J. S. and A.M.A. In 1950 he was invited to Clinic in Midvale and join the Hosmer, Lindsay there for two years. During his years of practice in Midvale he was on the staff of st. Mark's and Cottonwood Hospitals. After Dr. Hosmer's death he built an was office at 7777 South State and there until he retired in 1967. Dr. and Mrs. Miles have three practiced U.S.U. for two years before he transferred to the St. University Dental School where he graduated in Wyatt N. Miles, D.b.S., Sherwood Miles, D.D.S. and Vincent Miles, M. D.,PDC. sons: Louis 1931. married Cora Stoddard. Their children were a Charter Member of two terms and home after the Roy Woodney Quick, born in Ithica, New York, 1885, medical degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he boarded at the home of Dr. A. J. Hosmer's parents. After graduation he was He married war Kiwanis, was Lieutenant Governor Army in 1943 and came ended. Jeanne Nicholes and they have a daughter, Faye, and a son, Douglas. VAUGHAN D. RIGBY Vaughan Dale Rigby established hie dental office at Francine (Armstrong), Robert and Annette (Pratt). Both girls graduated from st. Mark's Hospital. Dr. A. J. Hosmer invited Dr. Quick to come to Mid vale in 1922 where he practiced until his retirement in 1943. He served on the city council, was a member of the American Legion and a Mason. was on was of Division 2. He enlisted in the QUICK received his The doctors office He president for Zelda N. Miles DR. R. W. Rigby 7321 South State Street in 1963. He received his Doctor of Surgery Degree from the University of Missouri City. Dr. Rigby served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force in Texas, Colorado and England from 1954 to 1957. Following his return from the Air Force he taught in Soda Springs, Idaho, prior to entering dental school at Kansas City, Missouri in 1959. Dr. Rigby has been active in professional, civic, and church circles having served as lecturer and clinician of dentistry at the University of Utah Hospital, as chair Dental at Kansas Holden Street (next to the Valley Sentinel Office). Many farm homes had long lanes leading into the main roads, many times when doctors made house calls or went to assist on a home delivery, they were met by the farmer with his team and sleigh and taken to the house. Doctors were on call 24 hours daily and made house calls until the end of World War II. During the depression bills were made out according to the pa tient's ability to pay. Some long extensions were made and many bills written off altogether! Communicable diseases were posted in home windows on big cards. The nearest hospital was in Salt Lake City. Drs. Hosmer, Quick and Lindsay were on the staff at St. Mark's Hospital. Home deliveries were frequent but many went to the Cottonwood Maternity Home in Murray (it became Midgeley Manor and then Meadow Jordan man and member of the Dental Health Committee of the Utah State Dental Association and the Salt Lake Society from 1972 to 1978. Rigby was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho to Harold E. and Mary Jones Rigby on his mother's and grand mother's birthday and has carried on that tradition by having a daughter born on their birthdays in 1968. He married Julia Salisbury from Newton in Decem ber, 1954, and they are the parents of six children: Tina, Glen, Sandra, Steven, Mary and Rebecca. They reside of 7449 Maple Street. District Dental Dr. View Convalescent Center). Many times my Dad brought home some pies, bread, fruit, meat or vegetables which patients had given him. The term "country doctor" was a term of endearment. The doctors' office served aid station en as an Julia DR. JAMES E. ROBERTSON emergency and first There is little written about the early physicians. Mention is made of a Dr. Young as the first doctor in Bingham Junction. One of the early physicians in the hospital. Many young doctors Doctors Lindsay, Daines, Gross, route to the worked in this office: Westphal, Hamilton, Jorgensen, John A. Hosmer and Wright. Dr. R. W. Quick retired in'l943 and moved to Boise, Idaho where he died of a coronary May 25, 1950. area was Eldred G. Francine Quick Armstrong Rigby Dr. Alec Dr. James E. Robertson. He and his brother, came here from Canada. Dr. Jim Robertson, practiced with 164 Dr. A. J. Hosmer in the little building south of the Midvale Sentinel building. In 1916, after a West Jordan home call he died from a coronary when |
