Poem by Eric Norelius, [1888].

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Poem by Eric Norelius, [1888].

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A printed presentation copy of a poem (in Swedish) by Norelius: "Till Mr. och Mrs. L. Engberg, Deras Silfverbrollop i Vasa den 20 de April 1888." Norelius, a Swedish Lutheran clergyman, was president of the Augustana Synod (1874-1881, 1899-1911) and founded (1862) the school that eventually became Gustavus Adolphus College.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Norelius, Eric, 1833-1916

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Erik Norelius, pastor, a founder, and eventual president of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America was born on October 26, 1833, in Hassela, Helsingland, Sweden, to Anders Pehrson and Elizabeth Johnsdotter. Erik was one of five children and was named for an uncle who drowned in the river Skans several years earlier. The family was poor, living in Hassela where his father was a farmer who worked small fields, kept goats, and burned wood for charcoal to sell as a ca...

Swedish Historical Society of America

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The Swedish Historical Society of America (SHSA) was founded in Chicago on July 22, 1905. The name of the organization was then the Swedish-American Historical Society. It was discovered, however, that an earlier, but at the time defunct, society founded in 1889 was still officially listed among the Illinois corporations as the Swedish-American Historical Society. This led the later organization to change its name to the Swedish Historical Society of America, and it was so incorpora...