Background
Charles graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota.
Charles graduated from the medical school of Northwestern University in 1888 and joined his father, William Worrall Mayo, and older brother, William James Mayo, in their private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota.
Preparatory education, Rochester High School, Niles Academy. Doctor of Medicine Northwestern University, 1888, Master of Arts, 1904. Post-graduate study, New York Polyclinic, New York Post-Graduate Medical School.
Doctor of Laws, University Maryland, 1909, Kenyon College, 1916, Northwestern, 1921, University of Edinburgh, 1925, Queen's U. (Belfast), 1925, University of Manchester, 1929, Hamline University, 1930, Carleton College, 1932, University of Minnesota, 1935, University of Notre Dame, 1936, Villanova College, 1937.
Doctor of Science, Princeton, 1917, University of Pennsylvania, 1925, University of Leeds, 1929. Master of Surgery, University of Dublin, 1925.
Diploma in Public Health, Detroit College Medicine and Surgery, 1927. Doctor of Medicine, University of Havana, 1930.
Bachelor of Science, Yankton College, 1937.
F.A.C.S., 1913. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons., England, 1920. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons., Ireland, 1921.
F.R.S.M., London, 1926.
The private practice became the not-for-profit Mayo Clinic in 1919. At that point, the remaining partners went on salary, and the Mayo Properties Association was established. The world"s first "integrated group practice" was established by the seven partners and staff
The Mayo Clinic came to be regarded as one of the foremost medical treatment and research institutions in the world.
Within Mayo"s lifetime it registered one million patients. The idea of medical specialization was developed by this group of medical pioneers.
A close and enduring relationship between the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota Medical School developed. C. H. Mayo specialized in surgery of the thyroid and nervous system.
He was also responsible for the clinic"s ophthalmic patients until 1908.
He and early partners insisted on sterile conditions in the operating room, and that was one of many factors which contributed to the medical practice"s early surgical successes. Mayo retired in 1930 and died of pneumonia in 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. Joseph Graham Mayo was killed in November 1936 in an accident when a train hit his car killing him and his hunting dog, Floosie.
Mr.
Mayo and his dog were buried in the same casket.
Member State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, Minnesota, 1900-1902. Fellow or; Mason.
Married Edith Graham, 1893. Children: Margaret (deceased), Dorothy, Charles William, Edith (Mistress Fred West. Rankin), Joseph Graham (deceased), Louise (Mistress George T. Trenholm), Rachel (deceased), Esther (Mistress John B. Hartzell).