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Charles Edwin Mayo
1827–1899
A 19th-century writer with a strong interest in local history, best remembered for work tied to the Minnesota Historical Society and for preserving older records in print. His surviving books point to a careful compiler drawn to regional memory, genealogy, and the documentary side of history.
1 Audiobook
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867
by Charles Edwin Mayo, Henry M. (Henry Mower) Rice, A. J. (Alfred James) Hill, Gideon H. (Gideon Hollister) Pond
About the author
Charles Edwin Mayo was born in 1827 and died in 1899. Surviving catalog and bibliographic records connect him with the Minnesota Historical Society and identify him as a contributor to Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867, a volume that helped preserve early historical writing about Minnesota.
He also wrote Homes and Habitations of the Minnesota Historical Society in 1898, and his name appears on Mortuary Record from the Gravestones in the Old Burial Ground in Brewster, Mass.: With Biographical and Genealogical Notes. Taken together, those works suggest an author deeply interested in preserving places, records, and the people attached to them.
There does not appear to be a widely available modern biographical profile of him, so much of what can be confirmed comes from library and historical-book records rather than detailed personal accounts. A grave record places his death on April 23, 1899, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.