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Submitted: 6/15/10 • Approved: 12/7/15 • Last Updated: 12/10/15 • R60881-G0-S3
1861-1938
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BOE, REV. NILS N., is a native of Norway, and was born April 1, 1863. He emigrated to the United States with his parents and located in Minnesota in 1868. He was reared on a farm, and during his youth attended the common schools. In 1879, entered St. Olaf’s Academy, where he graduated in 1882; then took a four years course in Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, and graduated from that institution in 1886. In the fall of that year entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Madison, Wisconsin, and when that institution was removed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1888, went there and completed his course, graduating in 1889. In August of that year he accepted a call from the mission committee of the Norwegian Lutheran Synod to go to Montana and do mission work for the Lutheran Church. He was the first Scandinavian Lutheran minister in Montana, and built the first Scandinavian Lutheran church in the state at Helena, where he made his headquarters. He also organized congregations in Great Falls and Sand Coulee, and remained in Montana until 1892, when he received a call from the Lutheran congregations in Sioux Falls, Brandon and Springdale to become their pastor. He accepted at once, and came to Sioux Falls the latter part of March, 1892, where he has since remained. He is an indefatigable worker, and a good pastor. He holds services once in two weeks at Brandon and Springdale, and in Sioux Falls every Sunday, either morning or evening and sometimes both morning and evening in addition to his Brandon or Springdale services.
History of Minnehaha County South Dakota
D.R. Bailey 1899 Page 452
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