. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . titution was to beknown as Augustana Seminary, and was temporarilylocated in Chicago. Professor L. P. Esbjorn wras electedits first professor and president and aboard of directorswas chosen. Dr. T. N. Hasselquist was elected presidentof the synod, and to this position he was re-electedyear after year until 1870. At the time of the organization of the synod, theSwedish branch of it numbered 17 pastors (including 5ordained at this meeting), 36 congregations, 21 churchedifices, and 3,747 communicant members; the Nor-wegians numbered 10 past
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . titution was to beknown as Augustana Seminary, and was temporarilylocated in Chicago. Professor L. P. Esbjorn wras electedits first professor and president and aboard of directorswas chosen. Dr. T. N. Hasselquist was elected presidentof the synod, and to this position he was re-electedyear after year until 1870. At the time of the organization of the synod, theSwedish branch of it numbered 17 pastors (including 5ordained at this meeting), 36 congregations, 21 churchedifices, and 3,747 communicant members; the Nor-wegians numbered 10 pastors (including 3 ordained atthe meeting), 13 congregations, 8 church edifices, and1,220 communicant members. They were grouped intothree conferences: one Norwegian, the Chicago Confer-ence; and two Swedish, the Mississippi (afterwards Illi-nois) and the Minnesota.* The Swedes and Norwegians * These conferences were not organized now, but had existed befoie. The Mis-sissippi Conference was organized in 1853, and the Minnesota in 1858. 328 THE MODERN ERA. T. N. Hasselquist. THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA 329 worked harmoniously together until 1870, when theyseparated with mutual good-will and well-wishes. At the time of the separation the Swedish part of thesynod numbered 46 pastors, 110 congregations, 57church edifices, and 16,960 communicant new conferences were now added, New York, Iowa,and Kansas, and the boundaries of all the conferenceswere definitely fixed. In 1886 the Nebraska Conferencewas organized andseven 3Tears later theColumbia and Califor-nia Conferences wereadded, making eightconferences in all. The Synod has animmense home mis-sion field embracingat present (1906)nearly all the statesand territories of theUnion and most ofthe provinces and ter-ritories of greater part ofthis work is donethrough the missionboards of the variousconferences, the central mission board of the synodhaving charge of such fields as lie outside of the boundsof the
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