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SWENSSON, Carl Aaron, clergyman, born in Sugar Grove, Warren County, Pennsylvania, 25 June, 1857. His father was one of the pioneers of the Swedish Lutheran church in the United States, and labored successfully among the widely scattered Swedes, gathering them into congregations and organizing them. At his death in 1873 he was president of the Swedish Augustana synod. The son received his classical and theological training in the Augustana institutions at Rock Island, Illinois, being graduated at the collegiate department in 1877 and at the seminary in 1879. In the same year he was ordained to the ministry, and at once assumed charge of the Bethany Lutheran congregation, Lindsborg, Kansas He was the founder of Bethany college and normal institute in that town in 1880, and is its president. He was English secretary of the general council in 1886. secretary of the synodical council of Swedish Augustana synod in 1886-'7, and a member of the board of home missions for Kansas in 1884-'7. He has been editor of " Ungdoms Vaennen" in Chicago, Illinois, for six years; of " Framat," Lindsborg, Kansas, which he founded in 1885: " Korsbaneret," an annual (Rock Island, Illinois, 1880-'6) ; and "Sondagsskolboken," a Sunday-school book (Chicago, 1885). He has published "Minnen fran Kyrkan" (Lindsborg, 1888).
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