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Swedish Genealogical Bibles, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Literature

Swedish American Genealogist

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Full Issue Vol. 1 No. 1

Swedish American Genealogist

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Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

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Immigrant Artifacts As Genealogical Aids, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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What's In A Swedish Surname?, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

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One Hundred Years Of Oratorio At Augustana: A History Of The Handel Oratorio Society, 1881-1980, Conrad Bergendoff

Augustana Historical Society Publications

When the Handel Oratorio Society gave the Messiah December 12, 13, 14th 1980 in Centennial Hall, Rock Island, Illinois it completed one hundred years of oratorio singing at Augustana College. Part I recounts the origin, difficulties, and development of the organization which began as the Augustana Handel Oratorio Society, divided the field with the Conservatory Choir, and reunited as the Handel Oratorio Society. Part II attempts to give a complete list of the programs, 1881-1980, with names of participants and dates and places of each performance.

My Story: Immigrant, Executive, Traveler, Birger Swenson

Augustana Historical Society Publications

From book jacket:

Gifted in business, Birger soon became well known in lay circles of his Church and attained a high position in both the publication and circulation of religious journalism. All the while he and his wife were contributing to constructive agencies in their community and enlarging a circle of friends here and abroad.

Table of Contents:

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Finding My Way in a New Land -- From Campus to War Camps -- College Years -- An Interlude in Europe, Michigan and Seminary -- A Career in Church Publications -- Birger Takes a Wife -- General Manager …

Shepherd Of An Immigrant People: The Story Of Erland Carlsson, Emory Lindquist

Augustana Historical Society Publications

From book jacket:

The life of Erland Carlsson (1822-1893), immigrant pastor and Augustana Lutheran Synod leader, was fashioned by his pietistic family home in Älghult parish, Kronobergs län, Sweden, it was enriched by the evangelical läsare movement, and it was deepened intellectually by his theological studies at Lund University.

Table of Contents:

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Early Years in Sweden -- Emigration to America -- Building a Congregation -- The Life of an Immigrant Pastor -- The Pastor and His Congregation -- Outreach in Service -- The Church Beyond the Parish -- Champion of Education -- Promotor of the …

The Immigration Of Ideas: Studies In The North Atlantic Community, Essays Presented To O. Fritiof Ander, J. Iverne Dowie, J. Thomas Tredway

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Excerpt from Foreword:

Several of the essays in this volume focus upon persons who came to live in a new world intellectually as well geographically. Others are concerned directly with the movement of ideas across the Atlantic. Heretofore the Augustana Historical Society has devoted its publications almost exclusively to the Scandinavian-American milieu. This volume enlarges the field of the society's concern by including certain aspects of English and German intellectual history. The writers have responded to contemporary trends in immigration historiography with its emphasis upon the role of the immigrant in the intellectual as well as the social history of …

Pioneering Adventures Of Johan Edvard Lilljeholm In America, 1846-1850, Arthur Wald

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Excerpt from Foreword:

In the impressive collection of newspapers, letters and documents in the Augustana College Archives pertaining to Swedish pioneer history is found a considerable number of immigrant stories and biographies, which aside from their importance to scholars as research sources, have extraordinary human interest. In years past, the Bulletin of the Augustana Swedish Institute has published a number of these pioneer stories, but it remained for a Swedish clergyman, Kyrkoherde Gosta Soderberg from L. P. Esbjorn's parish of Ostervala, while engaged in research in the Archives, to come upon and recognize the value of one such document previously …

Olof Christian Telemak Andrén, Ambassador Of Good Will, Oscar N. Olson

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Of the pioneer pastors of the Augustana Church O. C. T. Andrén is perhaps the least known. As the first pastor of the First Lutheran Church in Moline, Illinois, he remained in America only four years, 1856 to 1860. But the result of his labors cannot be measured by this brief period. By his earnest preaching, his faithful pastoral care, his consecrated personality and deep spiritual experience he laid a good foundation for the church he served. As a member of the Mississippi Conference and the Synod of Northern Illinois he made a valuable contribution to the work of welding …

Augustana Historical Society Publications Number 11, Lisa Huntsha, Ira Oliver Nothstein

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Selected Documents Dealing with the Organization of the First Congregations and the First Conferences of the Augustana Synod and their Growth Until 1860, Vol. 2

Augustana Historical Society Publications Number 10, Ira Oliver Nothstein

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Selected Documents Dealing with the Organization of the First Congregations and the First Conferences of the Augustana Synod and their Growth Until 1860, Vol. 1

Augustana Historical Society Publications Volume V, George M. Stephenson, O. L. Nordstrom, Conrad Bergendoff, E. W. Olson, George Gordon Andrews

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Table of Contents:

C. W. Foss: an appreciation / George M. Stephenson -- Diary kept by L. P. Esbjorn, 1849 / O. L. Nordstrom -- Reports to the American Home Missionary Society, 1849-1856 / Conrad Bergendoff -- The sources of the original constitution of the Augustana Synod / Conrad Bergendoff -- Early letters to Erland Carlsson / E. W. Olson -- Sources on revolutionary Europe : A selected list from the Charles XV Collection / George Gordon Andrews -- The Augustana Historical Society, 1930-1935 / O. L. Nordstrom -- In memoriam.

Augustana Historical Society Publications Number 2, Gustav Andreen, Henry F. Staack, Fritiof Fryxell, Albet F. Schersten, O. Fritiof Ander

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Table of Contents:

The early missionary work of the Augustana Synod in New York City, 1865-1866 / Gustav Andreen -- The Iowa Synod's attempt at missionary work among the Indians, 1859-1864 / Henry F. Staack -- Thomas Moran's journey to the Tetons in 1879 / Fritiof Fryxell -- The historical and cultural background of Swedish immigrants of importance to their assimilation in America / Albert F. Schersten -- Swedish-American newspapers and the Republican Party, 1855-1875 / O. Fritiof Ander -- Book reviews -- Reports of Committees.

Augustana Historical Society Publications Number 3, Ernst W. Olson, Evald B. Lawson

Augustana Historical Society Publications

Table of Contents:

Ernst W. Olson / Augustana Book Concern: Publishers to the Augustana Synod.--History of Its Activities since 1889, with Introductory Account of Earlier Publishing Enterprises -- Evald B. Lawson / Christina Nilsson’s Visit to Brockton, Mass., in November, 1870.--Pages from the Early History of the Oldest Swedish Lutheran Church in New England