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

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1855

pg 275            10. Lowell, Indiana.  The town of New Lowell, or simply 
             Lowell, was so named after a celebrated city of Massachusetts, 
             because of its excellent water power on the St. Joseph's river.  
             It was recognized and marked on the cadastre of the towns of the 
             state in 1849.  Its founder was A. Coquillard, who in 1836 had 
             also begun the foundation of South Bend on the opposite bank, 
             which at present contains at least three thousand souls.
                  The progress of this new town is indefinitely checked by the 
             sudden death of Mr. Coquillard, who was killed by a fall at the 
             beginning of the year.  Be this as it may, this check cannot be of 
             long duration, and, to judge from the ordinary causes that here 
             determine the growth of cities, it must one day resume its growth.
             Now it cannot spread out without materially contributing to raise 
             the value of the lands of Notre Dame, which it joins.
                  It has at present about two hundred souls, most of them 
             Catholics.  It has a house of Sisters who teach about one hundred 
             children.  The land was donated by the proprietors of the town in