Henry Stanley Plummer, M.D. (March 03, 1874 – ) was a prominent internist and endocrinologist who, along with Drs. William Mayo

William James Mayo

William James Mayo, M.D. was a physician in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. He and his brother, Charles Horace Mayo, both joined their father's private medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, after graduating from medical school in the 1880s...

, Charles Mayo

Charles Horace Mayo

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, Stinchfield, E. Starr Judd, Christopher Graham, and Donald Balfour founded Mayo Clinic

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. Dr. Plummer is also immortalized as the driving force behind the Plummer Building

Plummer Building

The Plummer Building in Rochester, Minnesota is one of the many architecturally significant buildings on the Mayo Clinic campus. This new "Mayo Clinic" building, opened in 1927, added much needed space to the ever expanding Mayo practice. The architect of record is Ellerbe & Co. It was the third...

, which still stands as a part of the Clinic he helped establish.
Plummer was born in Hamilton, Fillmore County, Minnesota

Fillmore County, Minnesota

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. He earned his medical degree from Chicago's Northwestern University

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 in 1898, and then returned to Racine, Minnesota

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 to assist his father Dr.