To Patriarch Mayo

On a clear, cold day last week two past presidents of the American Medical Association and the wife of a third proceeded with their kin (doctors and wives of doctors) to an old frame house on the highway which runs through small Le Sueur, Minn. In front of the house was a new road marker engraved with the legend which brought the travelers to freezing Le Sueur. It read:

In this residence from about 1858 until 1863 lived Dr. William W. Mayo, noted physician and father of the world-famous surgeons, Dr. William J. and Dr. Charles Mayo, the former being born here in 1861. During the Sioux attacks on New Ulm in August, 1862, Dr. William W. Mayo acted as surgeon for the defenders.

From pioneer Le Sueur the late Dr. William Worrell Mayo (1819-1911) moved to pioneer Rochester, Minn., where he established the famed medical family and practice which his children have expanded.

Present patriarch of the Mayos is Dr. William James, 71, senior A. M. A. past president (1906). His two daughters are married to professors of surgery.

Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, 67, was 1917 president of the A. M. A. His two sons are doctors. Two of his six daughters married able surgeons.

Mrs. Gertrude Berkman is the Mayos' sister. Her family includes two doctor sons, two doctor sons-in-law, of whom Dr. Edward Starr Judd was the A.M.A.'s 1931 president.

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