A man was ordained at Chicago by the Lutheran pastor, Rev. Hoffman.

The evidence

• “Early realizing the urgent demand for some kind of parochial organization of the scattered clusters of his countrymen he sought church orders and was ordained at Chicago October 3, 1843, by the Lutheran pastor, Eev. Hoffman.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/18-scandinavians.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 470 / book p. 436

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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