"...Liberal educational opportunities were accorded the Rev. Axel W. P. Elfstrom, who, after attending high school in Falkoping and Skofde, Sweden, spent several terms in study in the college at Gottenborg. In the fall of 1884, then a young man of twenty four years, he came to America and at once entered Augustana College, at Rock Island, Illinois, there pursuing a classical course for two years. In 1886 he matriculated in Augustana Theological Seminary and was graduated with the class of 1888. The same year he was ordained to the ministry of the Swedish Lutheran church and accepted the pastorate of Algona, Bancroft and Swea, making his home at Algona, Iowa, where he remained for fourteen years....In 1902 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Swedish Lutheran church in Centerville and...he was pastor to the time of his death on the i6th of August, 1910....On the 5th of December, 1890, the Rev. Axel W. P. Elfstrom was married to Miss Matilda Carlson....Their children are: Gustav Sigfrid, who was born November 11, 1891, and is clerking in the Maring grocery store in Centerville; Hanna, who was born September 18, 1893, graduated from the Centerville high school, in 1911, and is a teacher in the Garfield school of this city; Ester, who was born May 24, 1895, and will graduate from the Centerville high school with the class of 1913; and Carl, who was born December 27, 1897, and is a high-school student...."
(Source: Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, Volume II, L.L. Taylor, 1913)
(Source: Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, Volume II, L.L. Taylor, 1913)
"...Liberal educational opportunities were accorded the Rev. Axel W. P. Elfstrom, who, after attending high school in Falkoping and Skofde, Sweden, spent several terms in study in the college at Gottenborg. In the fall of 1884, then a young man of twenty four years, he came to America and at once entered Augustana College, at Rock Island, Illinois, there pursuing a classical course for two years. In 1886 he matriculated in Augustana Theological Seminary and was graduated with the class of 1888. The same year he was ordained to the ministry of the Swedish Lutheran church and accepted the pastorate of Algona, Bancroft and Swea, making his home at Algona, Iowa, where he remained for fourteen years....In 1902 he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Swedish Lutheran church in Centerville and...he was pastor to the time of his death on the i6th of August, 1910....On the 5th of December, 1890, the Rev. Axel W. P. Elfstrom was married to Miss Matilda Carlson....Their children are: Gustav Sigfrid, who was born November 11, 1891, and is clerking in the Maring grocery store in Centerville; Hanna, who was born September 18, 1893, graduated from the Centerville high school, in 1911, and is a teacher in the Garfield school of this city; Ester, who was born May 24, 1895, and will graduate from the Centerville high school with the class of 1913; and Carl, who was born December 27, 1897, and is a high-school student...."
(Source: Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, Volume II, L.L. Taylor, 1913)
(Source: Past and Present of Appanoose County, Iowa, Volume II, L.L. Taylor, 1913)
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