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Swedish American Genealogist Volume 15 Number 1 Article 1 3-1-1995 Full Issue Vol. 15 No. 1 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation (1995) "Full Issue Vol. 15 No. 1," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 15 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol15/iss1/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. (ISSN 0275-9314) • :, .. Swedish American aenealo ist A journal devoted to Swedish American biography, genealogy and personal history CONTENTS St. Ansgar's Academy, East Union, MN Students 1863-1876 1 Carl and Inga Hegberg (Hogberg) 42 Raymond E. Lindgren 1913-1995 5 0 Genealogical Queries 5 1 Vol. XV March 1995 No. 1 J I I .. Swedish-r I •I Ameri' can.. .. ' • . ' I " \ • \.. - I-• _. � ..J ,.� �-� ... e� ��' e�logist� (ISSN 0275- 9314) -.I I _..,,,.. Swedish AmericanI Genealogist I II � � - "•'•, . Swenson Swedish Immigrat• ioIn Research.. • I Center• Au-.gu stana College.. Rock Island. IL 61201 Tel. (309) 794 7204 Publ• , is-""..,_lher: Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center Edit-4�or: Nils ·: William Olsson, Ph.D., F.A.S.G., P.O. Box 2186, Winter Park, FL 32790. Tel. (407) 647 4292 I • - Associate Editor, James E. Erickson, Ph.-.D .. Edina,· MN - .. ·- ... l I I Con......t--ributing � �-. Edito a:.:::r, -P-e '-ter ' .Stebbins .Cr ' aig, J..D �-.�., F.A -' .S.G .. Wa shington, DC Editoria• l C.....ommi ttee: Dag Bla• nck,..... Upp,l.'""'t,sala, 'Sweden. Glen E. Brolander, Salem. SC .�. � \ Car- �·l-Erik Johan... sso..n , Salt Lake City, UT Chris. :......topher Ols;.so:n,.,M· inneapolis, MN -� . .. I �Col. 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Ii! ,- \ II! _- ----------�---�--�_ja: ------------ ---=- ------------- St. Ansgar's Academy, East Union, MN Students 1863-1876 James E. Erickson* By 1862, the Union and the Confederacy were alreadydeeply entangled in "The War Between the States." The battles fought during this single year-the naval duel between and Shiloh, Mechanicsville, Second Bull 1 Run, Antietam and Fredricksburg-are familiar components of the lexicon of the Monitor Merrimac, Civil War era. As if the Civil War was not enough to deal with, " ... the four-year­ 2 old state [ of Minnesota] became embroiled in a second war within a war in its own back yard." This thirty-eight-day conflict between Indians and whites was subsequently called the Sioux Uprising (or the Dakota War). It commenced with the slaying of five settlers by fourIndians in Acton To wnship, Meeker Co. on 17 August 1862; ended with the surrender by Sioux leaders to Colonel Henry H. 3 Sibley at Camp Release on 26 September 1862; and culminated with the mass hanging of thirty-eight Sioux at Mankato, Blue Earth Co., on 26 December 1862. Against this backdrop, we find a four-year-oldMN Minnesota Conferenceof 4 the Augustana Synod, organized in Center City, on 8 October 1858, with 13 congregations, 900MN communicant members and 5 ministers. At a convention held at East Union, on 8 and 9 October 1862, leaders of the fledgling conference discussed the need for an educational institution; and, recognizing the urgent need 5 forteachers and pastors, they therewith resolved to have Eric Norelius assume the teaching duties in a conferenceschool. Norelius founded a parochial school (with no name) in Red Wing, MN in the fall of 1862. The following year, the school was moved to East Union, where it eventually acquired the name St. Ansgar's Academy. After thirteen years in this 6 rural location, the school was moved to St. Peter, MN and became Gustavus Adolphus College. Of the eight schools established by Swedish Lutherans in 7 Minnesota, St. Ansgar's Academy (later Gustavus Adolphus College) is the only one to have survived to the present. *Dr. James E. Erickson, Associate Editor of SAG, resides at 7008 Bristol Boulevard, Edina, MN 55435. 1 Swedish American Genealogist Brief History of St. Ansgar's Academy I I When I commenced this research project, it was neither my intention nor my desire to write a history of St. Ans gar's Academy, because this task had already I been capably handled by several eminent Lutheran historians. Readers interested .,I \ in a more detailed treatment of St. Ans gar's history should, therefore,consult one of the following sources: Eric Norelius, St. Ansgars Elementarskola i Minnesota (in Swedish; hard to read script); Conrad Peterson, Gustavus Adolphus College: A History of Eighty Years, 1862-1942 and Remember Thy Past: A History of Gustavus Adolphus College, 1862-1952 (general histories; poorly documented;) and Doniver A. Lund, Gustavus Adolphus College: A Centennial History, 1862- 1962 (scholarly; well documented). On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Gustavus Adolphus ,' College, Rev. Eric Norelius wrote a very informative and insightful letter to I ProfessorW K. Frick in which he described the circumstances surrounding the I founding and early history of St. Ansgar's Academy at East Union. Because I Norelius'sVasa Goodhue letter provides Co, Minn. such May a unique9th 1887 synopsis of this fourteen year period in I early Lutheran educational history, it is hereby reproduced in its entirety. Revnd Prof W K Frick Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter Minn. Revnd and Dear Brother: Acknowledging your favor of May 2nd, I regret very much my inability to be present and share with you the pleasures of celebrating the 25th anniversary of our lnstution [sic] at St. Peter. Not being able to be present in person I beg of you kindly to present my humble salutation to the Faculty, \ Members of Conference, the Students and to all the Friends of the Institution, Congratulating you all upon this auspicious occasion. 25 years ago next fall the germ of this school was planted in the soil of the 1 Minnesota Conference when your humble servant volunteered to be its first teacher. What great changes have taken place since that time! The Minn. Conference was then a small feeble body, consisting of 18 organized Il congregations with a communicant membership of 1545 and 8 ministers. We had I no RRs in the state. The war of the great rebelion [sic] was raging. The Sioux Indians had been rading [sic] the western border of our state during the latter part of i the summer 1862; our new, scattered settlements and congregations in the \ I counties of Kandiyohi and Nicolette [sic] were partly dispersed. Widows, orphans I and wounded persons had been flocking upon us in the older and eastern part of the \ state \ 2 \ St. Ansgar's Academy in the most destitute and pitiable condition. We were all poor in this world's goods and the prospects forthe future looked dark indeed.
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