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Then presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower visited the polio ward at Saint Marys Hospital.
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Then presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower visits with staff at Saint Marys Hospital on Sept. 6, 1952, in Rochester. (Courtesy the History Center of Olmsted County)
Many folks locally know about the momentous day in September 1952 when presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight D. Eisenhower trekked to Dodge County to speak at the Plowville agricultural event being held in an alfalfa field between Kasson and Dodge Center.
But fewer people might be aware of a side trip taken by Eisenhower and Stevenson that day to visit polio patients at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.