Word: ferryman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferryman on the Minnesota. William Worrall Mayo came to the U.S. from Britain in 1845. He became a pharmacist in Manhattan's old Bellevue Hospital, later studied medicine at Indiana Medical College, moved, after several stops, to the little town of Rochester, Minn., 75 miles from Minneapolis. To eke out his meager earnings as a physician, the lively young man worked at various times as druggist, tailor, horse doctor, ferryman on the Minnesota River...