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Trinity Lutheran Church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 407
Abstract
Trinity Lutheran Church was founded in 1912 in Moline, Illinois, and continues to operate as of 2017. At the time of its founding, Trinity was one of the only English-speaking churches chartered with the Augustana Synod, a Swedish branch of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The church has strong historical ties to Augustana College, with its first three pastors having graduated from Augustana Theological Seminary and the precursor to its Sunday School program having been founded by...
Dates:
1854-2014 and undated; Majority of material found in ( 1912-2014)
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections
Williamson family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 122
Abstract
The Williamson family papers, 1854-1950 and undated, primarily includes the papers of Thomas S. Williamson, a missionary to the Dakota Territory who collaborated with Stephen Riggs on a Dakota translation of the Bible, and Thomas's son, Andrew Woods Wililamson, who fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War and participated in the Dakota Uprising of 1862. Included in this collection are handwritten accounts of the Dakota conflict complied at Camp McClellan by Thomas S....
Dates:
1854-1950 and undated
Found in:
Augustana College Special Collections