Not a building now pertaining to either institution was visible save the preparatory department, which, shorn of half its present glories, stood, in glaring white, on the corner facing the home of Mr. The University was but three years and a half old then, the Garrett Biblical Institute some six months older. Of 1858, at which date I cast in my lot for all the rest of the time, with this Methodist Cambridge of the prairies. No professor in Institute or University carries his experience of local chronology backward to a period of antiquity so remote as the spring I speak as one of the earliest pioneers who yet survive in Evanston. For that occasion I wrote a familiar sort of "retrospect," and out of it has grown this more extended yet wholly informal account of the origin, history and present condition of our well-beloved town.
Garrett's (the founder's) birthday in 1886. Ridgaway, President of Garrett Biblical Institute, asked me to speak to the students on the anniversary of Mrs. Four years after the village was named and platted, and when it numbered hardly more than five hundred inhabitants, my parents came here to live here their three children were graduated, and from here three of the five who constituted our family have been laid to rest in Rosehill Cemetery.īut very likely it would never have occurred to me to try to put on record the history of the town that has been my home since I was eighteen years of age, had not Rev. The date of its christening is February 3, 1854, and its thirty-seventh year has already ended. 5 Introductory.Įvanston is now the most popular as well as the most populous suburb of Chicago, and the literary center of the great Northwest.
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" No spirituous, vinous, or fermented liquors shall be sold under license or otherwise, within four miles of the location of said University, except for medicinal, mechanical, and acramental purposes, under penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense, to be recovered before any Justice of the Peace of said County of Cook." - From Charter of Northwestern University.
‘This is my ain, familiar town?’ 3 Dedication.ĭEDICATED 4 From the Charter of Northwestern University.
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