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1814 - 1878 (63 years)
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Name |
Adolph Carl (A. C.) Preus |
Prefix |
Rev. |
Born |
29 Jun 1814 |
Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
8 Jun 1878 |
Norway |
Biography |
1890 |
- "REV. A. C. PREUS
"Rev. Pres was born in Norway in 1814 and graduated from the theological department of the Christiania University in 1841. He became assistant pastor at Gjerpen in 1848, and came to America in 1850 where he served a Norwegian congregation at Koshkonong Prairie, Wis., until 1860. The next three years (1860-3) he served Our Saviour's church at Chicago, Ill., whence he removed to Coon Prairie, Wis., having accepted a pastoral charge there, which he served until 1872, when he returned to Norway, his health having become seriously impaired. In Norway he was appointed pastor of the parishes known as Holt and Tvedestrand, and later he was promoted to the office of dean in the deanery of East Nedensås. While in America he was elected president at two of the meetings held preparatory to the organization of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod, and after its organization had been completed he was successively re-elected its president until 1862. Besides his numerous duties as pastor and president of the Synod and Synodical Council, he traveled a great deal in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, preaching the gospel to his scattered countrymen and organizing congregations. In Wisconsin alone he organized at east twenty congregations, many of which he served until they could get a settled pastor. It often happened that for several weeks at a time he was obliged to preach one and two times every day, besides traveling on foot or horseback from ten to twenty miles over roads which to-day would be called impassable. As a preacher he was plain and practical, as a writer he possessed the ability of expressing his thoughts clearly and popularly. After having spent six years in his Master's service in the fatherland he died Pentecost Eve, 1878, at the age of sixty-four."
--- Jens Christian Roseland, American Lutheran Biographies: or, Historical Notices of Over Three Hundred and Fifty Leading Men of the American Lutheran Church, from Its Establishment to the Year 1890; with a Historical Introduction and Numerous Portrait Engravings. Milwaukee, WI: [Press of A. Houtkamp & Son], [1890], page 595.
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Person ID |
I13383 |
Dodge and Olmsted Minnesota Norwegian-Americans |
Last Modified |
22 Aug 2014 |
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