Members of the Luther Valley church participated by regularly elected delegates in the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Northern Illinois at a meeting held at Cedarville, Stephenson Co., Ill.

The evidence

• “Hatlestad. In 1851, at a meeting held at Cedarville, 111,, September 18-24, it participated by regularly elected delegates in the formation of "The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Northern Illinois." In the month of August, 1855, a meeting was held in the log meeting house, near the residence of A. K.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 133 / book p. 642

  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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