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Biographical data about a Lutheran clergyman who was president of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Includes: Biography and program, April 6, 1952-January 15, 1957. Program, "Unveiling Ceremony Bronze Bust of Dr. J.A. Aasgaard (1957); "A Secret Wartime Message: Eivind Berggrav to Johann Arndt Aasgaard, 1941" (1996) by Todd Nichol. Clippings in English and Norwegian.
Copy of a letter from the brother of Henrik Ibsen to his father, dated 28 May 1850, at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He describes conditions in Wisconsin, includein items about his work as a clerk in a store, wages, expenses, outlook for farmers, Indians, and the great interest in the Gold Rush to California. He himself may have died while crossing the desert on his way to find gold in California.
Articles, lectures, and addresses by a Lutheran clergyman and church historian. The address "The Norwegian Lutheran Church in America" (14 pages) was presented at the annual convention of the United Lutheran Church in 1906, and translated in 1965 by L. A. Mathre.
Includes: "Remarks at the Preus Library luncheon" (1969), "Alaska, Romance and Reality", "The Stockholm Conference, an Evaluation" (Aug. 1925), "Some Contributions of the Church in Minnesota's First Century," in Minnesota Farmer (March-April 1958), "A Critical Look at the Lutheran Church Among Norwegian Americans" a pamphlet by E. Clifford Nelson and Eugene Fevold, and "The Union Movement and the Minority, 1917"; some Sunday school material and a teacher's manual. Transition from Norway's State Church to an American Free Church is a study of the early efforts of the Reverend Herman A. Preus and his Spring Prairie, Bonnet Prairie, Norway Grove, and Lodi parish in Dane and Columbia Counties, Wisconsin, to orient themselves to American church life, 45 typescript pages
Includes: His forebearers and life in Norway his subsequent emigration, life, and family in the United States where he was known as by John Michaels.
Formerly part of P539.
"The Santal Mission in America, and the Visit of Skrefsrud in 1894-95," is a translation of a chapter of a Norwegian scholar's doctoral dissertation on the history of the Santal Mission. The Santal Mission was organized by Lars Skrefsrud and [?] Børresen in Santalistan, India, in 1867, and received support from the Scandinavian church groups in the United States, especially after 1893, when a Santal Committee was elected. The translations are by Harry T. Kleven and Arne Unheim. The file includes "Fra Skrefsrud til venner i Amerika," Decorah-Posten, September 29, 1981; sermons and reports by Skrefsrud about the Santal mission during his American visit, 1894-1895, and clippings (1891-1940) about the mission and the American Santal Committee.