William W. Mayo was born on May 31, 1819, in Eccles, Lancashire, England. He studied science in Manchester under the famous chemist and physicist John Dalton, who formulated the modern atomic theory. William came to the United States in 1846, first working as a pharmacist at Bellevue Hospital in New York City before moving to Lafayette, Indiana.

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