The Luther Valley Church, after trying in vain to get a pastor from Norway, extended a call to Clausen.

The evidence

• “In the fall of 1845, the Luther Valley Church, after trying in vain to get a pastor from Norway, extended a call to Clausen. This he finally accepted and arrived on the 31st day of July, 1846.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34d-biographical-4.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 528 / book p. 1013

  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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