A Norwegian Lutheran minister accepted a call to the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Clinton and became its resident pastor.

The evidence

• “devoted himself entirely to gospel work, traveling from place to place in the Norwegian settlements in Illinois and Wisconsin. From 1846 to 1856 he organized congregations at Mission Point, Lisbon, Leland and Fox River, Ills.; also at Racine, Milwaukee and Muskego, Wis. In 1856 he became a resident pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Clinton, Wis. ; serving also other congregations at Muskego, Queen Anne Prairie, Leland and Rock Prairie. For nearly thirty years he continued to serve these places with remarkable. faithfulness and ability up to his death, which occurred February 23, 1885.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/18-scandinavians.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 471 / book p. 437

  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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