Mayo
Mayo names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Mayo WILLIAM JAMES, surgeon
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM JAMES, surgeon; born at Le Sueur, Minn., in 1861, received his preparatory education at Niles Academy, and graduated as M. D. from University of Michigan in 1883. He engaged in the practice at Rochester and became surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital from 1889. Later regent of the University of Minnesota and president of the Minnesota State Medical Society. The clinic established by himself and brother Charles has gained world-wide celebrity, and thousands of operations take place there annually, particularly for cancer, goiter, gallstones, and intestinal diseases. The papers issued from the clinic are read eagerly in the medical world. MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDI- CAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, established in February, 1915, by the two famous surgeons, Dr. William J. and Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn. In the course of the preceding quarter of a century these two surgeons had gained an international reputation, established probably the most modern equipped of all hospitals, and a private laboratory unexcelled in America. The hospital and laboratories, valued at considerably over a million dollars, were given to the University of Minnesota, and the entire research school placed under the control of the regents of the State. The opportunities thus afforded for research are greatly increased and to-day it is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is done better medical research work.
Mayo HENRY THOMAS, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY THOMAS, an American naval officer, born in Burlington, Vt., on Dec. 8, 1856. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1876. After serving on various vess of the United States Navy, commanding at the Mare Island Navy Yard, and holding some appointments with the Navy Department, he was made rear-admiral in 1913. In 1915 he was promoted to vice-admiral and placed in command of the battleship squadrons of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1917 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet, being promoted at the same time to admiral, and from then on took a prominent part in the operations of the United States Navy during the World War. Previously, in April, 1914, while in command of the United States naval vessels at Tampico, Mexico, co, he had demanded an apology from the Mexican Government for the illegal arrest of some United States naval officers and men.
Mayo CHARLES HORACE, surgeon
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHARLES HORACE, surgeon; at Rochester, Minn., in 1865, was born educated at Northwestern University, and graduated from Chicago Medical DR. CHARLES H. MAYO College in 1888. From that year he practiced in Rochester, and became surgeon to Mayo Clinic of St. Mary's Hospital. With his brother donated $1,500,000 in 1915 to establish the Mayo Foundation for medical research at Rochester. President of Western Surgical and Gynæcological Society (1904), of Minnesota State Medical Society (1905), and chairman surgical sections American Medical Association (1907) and International Tuberculosis Congress (1908). Has won reputation in treating goiter, and in collaboration with his brother, William James, has published "A Collection of Papers Published Previous to 1909" (2 vols. 1912).
Mayo RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, EARL OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RICHARD SOUTHWELL BOURKE, EARL OF, a British statesman; born in Dublin, Ireland, Feb. 21, 1822. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin; entered the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1847, and was appointed chief secretary of Ireland by Lord Derby in 1852, 1858, and 1866. In 1869 he succeeded Lord Lawrence as Viceroy of India. While inspecting the convict settlement at Port Glair on the Andaman Islands, Feb. 8, 1872, he was fatally stabbed by a Punjab fanatic.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 the Mayo brothers were living surgeons at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, and their new Foundation, endowed with $1.5 million in 1915, had been handed to the University of Minnesota's regents. William and Charles Mayo both died in 1939, within two months of each other, but the clinic they built became the largest integrated group practice in the world, with major campuses added in Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, in the 1980s and more than a million patients seen each year. The graduate teaching arrangement with the University of Minnesota eventually ended, and Mayo now runs its own medical school, founded in 1972. Of the other Mayos, Admiral Henry T. Mayo died in 1937, and Lord Mayo, stabbed in the Andamans in 1872, is still commemorated by Mayo College at Ajmer in India.
Written for this edition, 2026.