Charles Pavey
Charles William Pavey II (1906-2004) received a Bachelor of Science from Ohio State in 1926. He promptly followed that with a medical degree from the class of 1928. At the time of his death in 2004 he was the youngest man to ever graduate from The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Pavey’s medical career spanned 57 years; 43 of which were spent as a member of the OSU faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He also unofficially held the title of most experienced obstetrician in Columbus. In his 57 years of service, Pavey is said to have delivered more than 25,000 babies, and no one is disputing this claim. Celebrated journalist Walter Winchell even nicknamed Pavey “the Baby-Catcher” in a 1932 column for the Ohio State Journal.
The Medical Heritage Center has an archival collection of Dr. Pavey’s and the finding aid for it can be viewed at https://hsl.osu.edu/mhc/pdf/charles-w-pavey-md-collection
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