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Estherville Lutheran Church History Through 1920s
A detailed history of Estherville area Norwegian Lutheran congregations from 1870s to 1920s, tracing pastors Rev Holseth and Engh, creation of parsonages and churches, district splits into Immanuel East and West, Palestine, State Line, and Union State Line, growth to about 600 members, debt payoff, bell 1894, and expansion plans including a new site near High Lake Des Moines. It covers church governance, synod affiliations, and key dates from 1873 grasshopper plague to 1926 installation of Rev Mathien, with later moves toward central church and property acquisitions.
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Jackson
Minnesota
Norden
Chicago
Hande
Norway
H. F. Haskongen
Concordia Seminary
St. Louis
Lutheran Church
M. C. Holseth
Hatherville
Estherville
High Lake
Wallingford Church
Grasshoppers
Mamet County
Dickinson County
Palo Alto
Jack Creek
Swan Lake
Erick Kettleson
Knute Espeset
Kettlegan
Sther‘ville
West Prairie
Immanuel
High Lake- Swan Lake District
Holseth
Loat Island
Little Sioux
Milford
Seneca
Kossuth County
Cylinder Creek
Algona
Wesley
Emmetsburg
Bede
C. 0
Stoltz
Eau Clair
Wisconsin
Park River
North Dakota
Golden Valley
Astor
Holneth
Ebenezer Old People’s Home
Minneapolis
Hea
Helge Olson
Union State Line
Petersburg
R. R. Bull
Portland
Oregon
B. Mikkelson
Lake Center
Iowa
Gerhard Rasmussen
J. M. Dahl
Leland
Hagbarth Engh
Reierson
Norwegian Synod
United Church
Norwegian Augustant Synod
Norwegian Conference
Anti- Missourian Brotherhood
Hatherville Ladies’ Aid
Engh
State Line District
State Line
Esthervilla
Augustana Synard
W. M. McFarland
Mikkel Olson
Gjermund Hoyme
Ladies’ Aid
Mra. Engh
H. Y. Stockstede Bell Foundry
Wme
Strand
Blooming Prairie
East
West Immanuel
Palestine
T. ©. Thompson
B. A. Gronstal
O. L. Tosday
Akre
S.4
Vancouver
British Columbia
Lundy
Halvorson
R. K. Pjelstad
Paularud
East Immanuel
Sande
T. J. Severtson
P. Nordstatten
Nathanael
Per Oleson
Ole Naste
Juul Grannum
Peter Ulricksen Solberg
Berge Aga
Twelve Mile Lake
Anna Olson
H. H. Tosral