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Minutes from the Hauge Synod congregation in Ossian, Iowa

 A page from the Ossian, Iowa congregation of the Hauge Synod. The pastor was Peder Severin Stenerson.

This page records a congregational meeting in 1900 as well as the tail end of the previous meeting. It says:

For the school committee for next year the following were elected, Knud Østerhus, Karl Karlson and Jakob Østerhus, this committee is responsible, together with P. S. Stenerson to negotiate with K. M. ‘J’. Mjånos, if this person is willing to hold “mothers-school” ((language class)) here for the same pay – $20.00 per month or a little ‘more’. The referendum was read and passed.
March 29 – 1900
As was previously decided, the Stavangers congregation met for the official congregational meeting on the 29th of March, 1900. The meeting was opened with prayer, bible verse readings and song. After this, Pastor Stenerson declared the meeting open for discussion regarding if the congregation should send any delegates to the next annual meeting. After some debate, the congregation decided to send some delegates to the annual meeting. Then the congregation unanimously voted to have new cedar shingles put on the roof. As well as, voted unanimously to paint the church, both the outside and the inside.  Then a committee was chosen for the collection of money for materials, consisting of Ole ‘Krundsvig’, Ole ‘Aasterud’ and Knud Kleppe Jr. Additionally a committee was chosen to direct and have oversight of the repairs to the church, consisting of Pastor Stenerson, E. N. Evensen and T. N. Evenson.   
      The referendum was read and passed the same day.
                                               T. N. Evenson.
                                    Temporary Secretary

 

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Hans Jakob Grøgaard Krog was born in Flekkefjord, Norway. After having obtained his master’s degree, he took up the study of theology but discontinued this, however, and became a teacher in Christiania and later in Trondhjem. Rev. J.A. Ottesen had often written in Norwegian papers concerning the scarcity of clergymen among Norwegians in America, and this led Krog to take up the study of theology anew. In 1872 he emigrated to America and was ordained into the ministry in 1874. His first call took him to Minneapolis, but a year later found him in Menominee, Wis., where he remained until 1890, when the Church Council elected him to a professorship at Luther College, where he remained for six years. He taught Norwegian, Religion, Latin, and French, besides taking, together with his wife, a very active part in the church work in and about Decorah. Rev. Krog was intensely interested in mission work, especially in the seamen’s mission. In 1902 he resigned his pastorate, which he had held at Ossian since 1896, in order to devote all his time to the mission work. In this capacity he labored unselfishly to the last. In the death of Rev. Krog the cause of Christian education has lost one of its warmest friends and supporters and one whose labors and influence have promoted and strengthened the highest and best elements in the field of education.

Hans Jakob Grøgaard Krog

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