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This Day in Minnesota History

January 31, 1819

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ISBN: 0873514165
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William W. Mayo is born in England. One of the first doctors to use a microscope to aid in diagnosis, he arrived in Minnesota Territory in 1855 and settled in Rochester in 1863. His sons, Will and Charlie Mayo, founded the Mayo Clinic in St. Mary's Hospital in 1889.

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