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Norway -- Description and travel

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Sister Ingeborg Nystul papers

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Identifier: MSS 86
Abstract Sister Ingeborg Nystul was born in Norway in April 1880. She immigrated to the United States by herself, living first in New York and then in North Dakota. Nystul later attended the Bethesda Home and Deaconess Institute in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming the first medically trained, consecrated deaconess in September 1906. Nystul was the first deaconess sent to China by the Augustana Synod and also the longest serving missionary with 42 years of service. The Sister Ingeborg Nystul papers,...
Dates: 1869-1972 and undated