Background
Stinchfield was born in Phillips, Maine and received his early education in the nearby town of Strong.
Stinchfield was born in Phillips, Maine and received his early education in the nearby town of Strong.
After the Civil War, he attended Bowdoin College and the University of Michigan.
Charles Horace Mayo, William James Mayo, Christopher Graham, East. Starr Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour—of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He moved from Maine to Wisconsin as a young man and, in 1864, enlisted as a private in Company F of the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Army. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Bowdoin College in 1868.
After practicing medicine in Verona, Missouri, as well as Dundas and Eyota, Minnesota, Stinchfield was asked by William Worrall Mayo to join the Mayos" practice in 1892.
William Worrall Mayo was retiring and wanted a mid-career physician to balance the growing private practice. While the Mayo brothers excelled in surgery, Stinchfield was well qualified to handle the non-surgical duties of the practice.
When the remaining partners signed the transfer papers, this gift insured the long-term survival, development and growth of the Mayo Clinic. The living great-grandson of Doctor Stinchfield (Douglas Anderson) continues to work at Mayo Clinic in the department of information technology.