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tana church at Minneapolis from 1872 to 1875,
whereupon he accepted the charge in Chicago and continued
as pastor of the Immanuel church for an unbroken
period of thirty-four years, until he answered the last
summons. Dr. Evald was an eloquent and powerful
pulpit orator, a fine writer, a cultured gentleman of a
high type. Besides his ministerial duties he filled many
positions of trust and responsibility, of which mention
may be made of the following: President of the Illi-
nois Conference, chairman of the North Chicago
Mission District, chairman of the Chicago Swedish Lutheran
Pastors5 Association, member of the board of directors
of Angus I ana College and Theological Seminary at
Eock Island, IE., director and secretary on the board
of Augustana Hospital, Chicago, for a quarter of a
century or from its inception, and member of the board
of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Chicago, for a
number of vears. Dr. Evald was a member of the
Swedish Historical Society from its organization in
1905.
CHARLES JOHN ALFRED ERICSON.
C. J. A. Ericson, of Boone, Iowa, passed away at his
home in that city August 7, 1910, shortly after his
return from a tour around the world. A native of Sweden,
Carl Johan Alfred Ericson was born in Småland, March
8, 1840. the son of a farmer, Erik Nilsson, who
emigrated in 1852. The family located first at Moline, 111.,
removed to Altona, 111., then to Webster county, Iowa,
and finally settled permanently in Boone county. The
son, equipped with the rudiments of an education and
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