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BULLETIN 984, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
A GREAT ARCHITECT. 
Daniel H. Burnham, the famous architect who planned the grounds 
and buildings of the World's Exposition at Chicago, 1892, came 
from Henderson Village, in the larger Belleville co mmu nity. 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 community 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 
