North Central College, 150 Years a Promising Start

By Kimberly J. Butler, Ann Durkin Keating, B. Pierre Lebeau

By the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president of the United States, nealy two dozen private colleges and universities operated in Illinois. Most were church-related and intended for English speaking men only. However, many northeastern Illinois residents were members of German speaking immigrant families. No institutions of higher education addressed the needs of thes men and women. specifically. That changed in 1861

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 0578094827
• ISBN13: 9780578094823
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: North Central College
• Length: 152 Pages