Country to Campus: From Bureau County to Notre Dame: 1860...
Schlindwein, Timothy A.
During the years 1863 through 1869, eight young men from Bureau County, Illinois, attended the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame appealed to a Christian audience at large. Each of these young men was a Protestant Christian. They traveleddifferent paths before university and their subsequent life experiences varied markedly. They followed a generation of truepioneers, entrepreneurs and risk-takers. They benefited from that generation but, in...