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History of the University.. JOHN J. HALSEY. The plan for an institution of higher education in or near Chicago under the control of the New School Presbyterians originated about 1854. The Presbyterians and Congre- gationalists were then working in union under a plan by which the two denominations had a single congregation and pastor in many places, and supported a common educational sys- tem. But the Congregationalists got the better of the bargain, captured the Presbyterian Colleges at Jacksonville and Galesburg, and started their own College at Beloit. Dr. R. W. Patterson was then pastor at the Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago, and Dr. Harvey Curtis was in the First Church. Determining to have a College of their own, these men applied to the business men of Chicago. Chas. H. Quinlan, M. D., now of Evanston, at the time practicing his profession in Chicago, interested the merchants of South Water Street- then the business center of the city-in the scheme, and in 1856 a land company was formed to buy grounds for the site and for an endowment. Drs. Patterson and Curtis went prospecting on all the roads leading out from Chicago. One day they came out on the North-Western Railway, and persuaded the con- ductor to stop and let them off opposite where the McCormick farm now lies. They struck through to the lake, were surprised and delighted, first at the deep ravines, and even more at the high bluffs on the lake front, and so located the site. The land company bought 1,300 acres, now covered by Lake Forest, and set off, forever, the present College, Seminary and Institute parks. The remaining acres were divided half and half, between the University and the land company. The town was platted and laid out by a landscape gardener that sum- mer, and in October the Synod of the New School Presbyterian Church came out to Lake Forest, and sitting L' under the shade of a wide-spreading oak, adopted the infant yet unborn. In '57 the Old Hotel was built. In February, '57, the Legislature chartered
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