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

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1856

pg 299       the source of supplies of Notre Dame.  There was therefore no 
             recoiling from any sacrifice, no matter how great, to secure such 
             an advantageous position.
                  Some months after their introduction into that big city, 
             there were in the college of St. Mary of the Lake twenty-two 
             members of the Congregation of Holy Cross--two priests, five 
             Brothers, and fifteen Sisters, teaching in the college, thirty-
             five day scholars, three boys' schools (580 children), three 
             little girls' schools (340 children), and one industrial school 
             kept by the Sisters.  Moreover, the Congregation has charge of a 
             magnificent German parish of about three thousand souls.
                  Chicago is four hours from Notre Dame by railroad.  The 
             Catholic population at the end of 1856 amounted to thirty-five 
             thousand.  Nearly fifty pupils of the college are from Illinois.