Lest We Forget

Download or read book Lest We Forget written by Denie L. Dungan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lest We Forget: A History of University Place Christian Church, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, 1883-1957 This book relates the story of the founding and the growth of this church as it has expanded its services through the years. It attempts to give a glimpse of the struggles, the courageous eflorts and the triumphs of a body of steadfast earnest people working together under the shadow of a great University. Mr.page, an elderly minister of the Christian Church moved his family to Champaign in 1874 so that his six remaining children might acquire a university education. He bought two rooming houses in the 300 block on South Wright Street from the Illinois Industrial University. One house was a rooming house for boys and one for girls. A dining room was built connecting the two ahd the place was named Students' Home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.