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

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1855

pg 252            4.  Toledo is only six hours' ride from Notre Dame on the 
             railroad of the north of Indiana.  This city, which up to date 
             counts only some fifteen thousand inhabitants, is, nevertheless, 
             one of the first and most important of Ohio.  It lies at the head 
             of Lake Erie, where it monopolizes all the exports of the cereals 
             from the West.  Up to this time the Catholic population is nearly 
             all Irish, though a German church has been lately built.
School in         The Brothers' school was established there in the month of 
Toledo in    May 1855 by two Irish Brothers, in consideration of a salary of 
1855         $200 per an.  They have already 150 children.
                  Unfortunately it is noticed here, as in all maritime or lake 
             ports, that there is much drunkenness, and consequently much 
             misery and immorality.  The children are not regular in their 
             attendance like the Germans; the parents neglect to send them to 
             school or imagine that they need them at home, most of them being 
             poor.  It is perhaps the place in all the surrounding country 
             where a school of this kind is most needed, but it affords neither 
             the guarantees nor the future of the two former places.