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

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1856

pg 300                                  6.  Columbus
                  This city, the capital of Ohio, has at present twenty 
             thousand [inhabitants], three thousand of whom are Catholics.  
             There are so far only two Catholic churches, one for Germans and 
             the other for Irish.  The former is very beautiful and spacious.  
             The number of German Catholics is at least two thousand.
                  Towards the end of the year 1856 a German Brother was sent 
             there to open a school for little boys.  The beginning seems most 
             propitious:  seventy-five children attend his school daily, and 
             everything argues great success for the coming year.
                  It is thirty hours from Notre Dame, five hours from 
             Cincinnati.