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

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1855

pg 272       1855.  They had the same number of pupils as before--from thirty 
             to forty.  Three Sisters usually live there, and they are obliged 
             to admit boys and girls, the congregation not being able to pay 
             the salary of a Brother and of two or three Sisters.
                  Just now a pretty little frame church is going up on the 
             Sisters' lot, together with a house for the priest--all to cost 
             from twelve to thirteen hundred dollars, and this will give the 
             Catholics of this mission a Christian appearance, and all those 
             advantages of which they had been heretofore deprived.