Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1841-1842

pg 19             The town of Fort Wayne had at that time a population of 
             about fifteen or eighteen hundred inhabitants, with a parish of 
             eight or nine hundred souls.  The Rev. Mr. Benoit, the first 
             pastor, had just left for France.  Two days afterwards they were 
             at Logansport, the residence of the Vicar General, the good and 
             pious Mr. A. Martin, who received them with all the amiability 
             and cordiality of a genuine Frenchman, waiting on them at table 
             with his own hands, after himself doing the cooking.  For, as he 
             explained, he was too poor to pay a housekeeper, and for this 
             reason was content with the services of a little boy of twelve.
                  Not only did he afford them hospitality for two days, the 
             good missionary accompanied them as far as Lafayette, where he saw 
             them safely embarked for their last station, Vincennes.
                  This final portion of their journey took them another week, 
             during which nothing happened worthy of mention.  They passed 
             through Terre Haute from which the Sisters of Providence are 
             distant only two leagues, but they could not afford themselves 
             the pleasure of visiting them.  They were too anxious to see 
             Vincennes.