Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

9/1/1979 - 8/31/1980

Funding Totals

$18,888.00 (approved)
$18,888.00 (awarded)


A Study of 2,500 Leaders Among the Immigrants to the United States from Sweden

FAIN: RS-126179-79

Augustana Historical Society (Rock Island, IL 61201)
Conrad Bergendoff (Project Director: September 1979 to present)

To prepare a bibliographical profile of the 2500 pastors ordained in the Augustana Lutheran Church between 1860 and 1962, when the church merged with the Lutheran Church of America. These men were the intellectual and spiritual leaders of 1.25 million Swedish immigrants.