ough the
unbroken wilderness and the morning following delivered to Gen.
Harrison a reply." He died in his 89th year at East Toledo.

The University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, with 1,200 students, is the
largest Catholic school for boys and young men in the country, and the
American headquarters of the worldwide Order of the Holy Cross. Notre
Dame was founded in 1842 by Father Sorin, a Frenchman, who accomplished
his object under great difficulties.

When Father Sorin arrived in Indiana in 1841, leaving behind a
comfortable life in France for missionary work among the Indians,
he found on the present site of Notre Dame only waste land
covered with snow, and only one building, a tumble down log hut.
With $5 to begin work of erecting a school, he started in
courageously, and spent five days repairing the hut and fitting
it up so that one half served as a chapel and the other as a
dwelling for himself and 6 lay-brothers. In 1844 his little
college was chartered as a university by the legislature of
Indiana. Father Sorin was elected superior-general of the Order
of the Holy Cross for life. Besides Notre Dame, he founded many
other schools and colleges in the United States and Canada. He
died at South Bend in 1893. His co-worker, Father Badin, was the
first priest consecrated in the United States.

The mural frescoes of the main university building are by Luigi Gregori,
who was sent from the Vatican for this purpose, and who spent twenty
years on this work and on the adjacent Church of the Sacred Heart. The
latter is famous for its decoration, especially the beautiful altar. St.
Mary's, a large girls' school conducted by the Sisters of the Holy
Cross, has also fine buildings of more modern type than Notre Dame.

Schuyler Colfax at one time vice-president of the U.S. and for years an
intimate and trusted friend of Lincoln's, lived here in his youth, as
did the late James Whitcomb Riley. The soldier who, during the Great
War, fired the first gun of the American army in France against the
Germans was Alex Arch, a native of this city.

Though born in N.Y., Schuyler Colfax (1823-1885) passed his early
years first in New Carlisle, Ind., then in South Bend, where his
step-father was county auditor. After doing some journalistic
work, he began his public career by making campaign speeches for
Henry Clay in 1844. In 1852 he joined the newly fo