biography
| name: |
Mayo, William Worrall
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pronunciation:
[mayoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1819–1911)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He emigrated to the USA in 1845, and after taking his MD from the University of Missouri, he settled in Minnesota Territory (1855). As a prominent physician and surgeon based in Rochester, MN, he helped build St Mary's Hospital there after a destructive cyclone (1885). In 1889 he and his two sons, Charles and William Mayo, founded a clinic at that hospital that soon became a surgical centre for the region, and gradually a surgical hospital and teaching centre of world renown. It was also a pioneer in medical group practice which involved co-operation among several specialists. It was named the Mayo Clinic in 1903. William Worrall was also active in politics, helping to organize the Minnesota Territory as a state (1858), serving as mayor of Rochester for several terms, and as a state senator. In 1862 he served as an army surgeon during the uprising of the Sioux. |
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