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Doc Holliday Relative Accepts Honorary Membership from AZ Dental Assoc.
Scottsdale, Ariz. – The legend of Doc Holliday and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral is well known in Arizona. What isn’t as well known is that before he was a gun-toting outlaw, Doc Holliday was a dentist. While he never practiced dentistry in Arizona, the Arizona Dental Association, which is celebrating its 100 year anniversary, honored Doc Holliday for the notoriety he brought to the profession. During the association’s annual Western Regional Dental Convention taking place this week, Doc Holliday was awarded with an Honorary Membership to the association. President Dr. Regina Cobb presented the Honorary Membership to Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin of Doc Holliday. Tanner wrote the book "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait." Born John Henry Holliday in 1851 in Georgia, he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872. He practiced dentistry in Georgia until a diagnosis of tuberculosis ("consumption") in 1873 forced him to move to drier and warmer climate, which during those days was thought to extend one’s life. He arrived in the Arizona Territory in 1879. He died in 1887 in Colorado at the age of 36. |