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BULLETIN 984, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



A GREAT ARCHITECT. 



Daniel H. Burnham, the f anious architect who planned the grounds 

 and buildings of the World's Exposition at Chicago, 1892, came 

 from Henderson Village, in the larger Belleville community. His 

 father at one time lived on farm No. 104 and kept the store at Rural 

 Hill. Burnham (see fig. 14) made the plans for lake front improve- 

 ment and beautifying of the city of Chicago, was chairman of 

 World's Congress of Architecture, 1893, president of American Insti- 

 tute of Architecture, 1894, and chairman of the National Commis- 



Fig. 17. — Map showing colleges and universities attended by Belleville young people. It is often said 

 that college students learn not so much from their instructors as from one another. This map indicates 

 that the Belleville co mm unity has done its share toward influencing American college life. 



sion of Fine Arts, established by President Roosevelt, and made 

 plans for beautifying the city of Washington. He founded the 

 American School of Architecture at Rome, Italy, and replanned the 

 city of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of 1905. 



A PIONEER EDUCATOR. 



Joshua Bradley, founder of Union Academy, was a type of coun- 

 try minister who, seeing the importance that high rural ideals have 

 in national life, was able to crystallize and centralize the finest sen- 

 timents among the farmers of the Belleville community into an 

 institution which should persist for a hundred years, throwing its 

 influence for good into every township of the county, every county 



