Thank you. That brings back memories. I used to sing in the choir at the Norwegian Lutheran Church, Dr. Amunson was the director and also directed the Logan school choir. Doris ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:44 PM Subject: [WILACROS] Rev. Edward BORGEN Biography, b. 1852 NOR<WI<IA<MO<WI > From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 738 & 741. > > City of La Crosse > > REV. EDWARD BORGEN, Assistant Pastor of the Norwegian Church of La > Crosse, was born in 1852, in Spydeberg, Smaalenene, Norway, son of > Erik Borgen, who died in Norway in 1875. Mr. Borgen received only a > common-school education in Norway, and came to the United States in > 1868. He lived one and a half years in Rock Co., Wis., and from there > went to Decorah, Iowa; entered the Norwegian Lutheran College at that > place in the fall of 1871, and graduated in 1876. He then entered > Concordia Seminary, at St. Louis, Mo., and graduated from there in the > spring of 1879. The same year he was ordained to the ministry and > accepted a call from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of La Crosse, where > he still continues. He was married, Sept. 8, 1880, in Decorah, Iowa, > to Miss Ambjborg (Emma) Tobiason, daughter of Roland Tobiason, who > came to the United States in 1850, and is still living near Decorah. > He was from Slidre, Valders, Norway. > > [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm > posting this as a service and hope it helps!] > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >