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With the Järfsö colony from Waupaca in 1858 came
an educated and serious-minded young man of thirty
years, Andrew Jackson (Walla, Bohuslän). He had
made his way to America in 1852 and for five years had
dwelt in communities where he was the only one of
foreign birth. In 1857 he found a colony of Swedes at
Waupaca, Wis., and was engaged by them to teach
private school. In 1858 he accompanied a contingent
of these settlers in their prospecting trip to the
Kandiyohi region in Minnesota and in the following winter
he went back to teach school again at Waupaca. In 1859
he rejoined his Minnesota friends with the full
expectation of acquiring a claim and making his future home
there. He taught a private school and became the
religious leader among the settlers.
Very rarely did ordained Swedish Lutheran pastors
visit the settlements. They were kindly received by the
Scandinavian settlers, for they were God-fearing people
and missed the religious ministrations to which they
were accustomed from childhood. The religious training
of the children had been neglected. Some who had left
Sweden eight to ten years before had grown to manhood
or womanhood without having been confirmed.
On Friday, July 22, 1859, Rev. Peter Carlson of the
Union settlement at Carver came to Eagle Lake and
organized the first Lutheran church in this region. The
Eagle Lake, Nest Lake, and Lake Prairie settlers were
united into one parish called New Sweden. The minutes
of this meeting are preserved in the archives of the
Lebanon Church at New London. On Sunday, July 24,
services were again held by Rev. Carlson and the minutes
of the organization meeting were approved by the meeting
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