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

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1855

pg 273            9.  St. John's.  St. John's congregation, exclusively German, 
             is eighty miles south-west of Notre Dame.  There is neigher town 
             nor village, but merely a log church, to the end of which 
             additions have been made at various intervals, the full width of 
             the building, giving four little rooms, two of them for the priest 
             and Brother, and two for the Sisters.  For several years school 
             was taught in the church.  In 1852 a room was added partitioned 
             into two, where the little girls were taught separately.  The St. 
             John's mission is one of the most numerous[ly populated] of the 
             Notre Dame district.  It has at present at least one hundred and 
             eighty families.  It is the residence of a German Father, a 
             Brother, and three Sisters.
                  There is serious talk of building a fine brick church to cost 
             from eight to ten thousand dollars.  The number of children 
             attending the schools is from one hundred and forty to one hundred 
             and eighty.  Up to this time the congregation, not having a 
             suitable church, has done hardly anything for the priest or the