Personal account of arrival and early days in Swedish settlement, 1856-1886.

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Personal account of arrival and early days in Swedish settlement, 1856-1886.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/695074437

This collection contains the handwritten personal account, in Swedish, of Lars Anderson's arrival and early days in the United States. There is, for unknown reasons, a personal history and memorial service program for Eric Norelius.

4 folders.

Gustavus Adolphus College, Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7996753

Gustavus Adolphus College, Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library

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Anderson, Lars, 1837-1891

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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...

St. Ansgar's Academy

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