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Rochester (City and county-seat)

a city and county-seat of Olmsted co., Minn.; on the Zumbro river, and on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Chicago Great Western railroads; 90 miles S. E. of St. Paul.

Here are a public high school, State Hospital for the Insane, St. Mary's Hospital, a Roman Catholic Seminary, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city was the home of the Mayo brothers (q. v.), surgeons, who conducted and endowed St. Mary's Hospital. It has a number of foundries, and manufactories of wagons, furniture, and agricultural implements. The city was incorporated in 1858. Pop. (1910) 7,844; (1920) 13,722.