Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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It seems undisputed that the origin of the name is due to a remark made by the Rev. Mr. Slocum. He was standing with several others, upon the bluff near Mr. R. H. lvlcElwee's and Mrs. C. B. Farwell's, discussing a fitting name for the place. Look here, gentlemen, he said, What is this before us? A lake, they an- swered. 'fAnd what is this behind us? A for- est, they answered. Pointing with his hand to the lake, and then to the forest, he said, What better name can we have than 'Lake Forest'? The suggestion was so satisfactory that one and another in a properly religious way said Amen. -Pastor James G. K. McClure History of the Presbyterian Church, 'I905 , . Jim Anderson's Store 7 Lake Forest is known today as one of the most beautiful suburban towns in the country, Its ad- vantageous situation on the blutts, a hund'e:3 feet above Lake Michigan, is enhanced by the great forest of oaks and hickories that has been preserved, and amid which the hcrres a'e placed. The winding streets are all paved, but to a width of only eighteen or twenty feet . . , As few fences intervene, the result is that the whole town presents a park-like effect. in the midst of this forest park are the beautiful horhes. occupying from one to fifty acres. in the suv'-M of i909 the dust problem was sclxed by c licg or tarring all the roadways of the town. -John J. Halsey, LL.D. History of Lake County, 'l9'l2

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.ivlifffili N' G ...Q Q. N 3 4 :.lf'.l 1 in V9 il' 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 conductor to stop and let them oft 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 blufts on the lake front, and so located a site, The land company bought l,3OO acres, now covered by Lake Forest, and set oFl, torever, the present College, Seminary and Institute parks. The remaining acres were divided half and halt, between the University and the land company, The tovvn vvas platted and laid out by a landscape gardener that sumrner . . . -John J. Halsey History of the University The Forester, vol. l, 1892 6 A. 1 4.- Hxz WQZLJQ ' a-','Ti:w.t.i 5.6. . t if . Ski

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:r - ..g LL,.Y.g . -ti' iii -v V' 1 't 4,-1g Hi In 1857 Lake Forest College was born