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    • The Bethany Artist & the Bethany Scientist: Lydia & Emil ------------------------- \\// >
      • Lydia's and Emil's Smoky Valley Swedish Immigration Background ​ ~ With a far larger account of why Swedes were leaving Sweden by Mr. Holmquist >
        • Their 1869 Swedish Lutheran Galesburg Colony and Olsson Colony Smoky Valley Arrivals, ~ With a Galesburg account by Mr. Holmquist >
          • Their Värmland Swedes ~ The "First Swedish Agricultural Company" Lindsborg Founders, 1868, ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
            • Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Emigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
              • Bethany Lutheran Church and Lindsborg Founder Pastor Olsson, 1869 - 1876 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
      • Their 1869 "Bethany Lutheran Church" ~ Accounts by Dr. Lindquist and Mr. Carlson >
        • ​Their 1860-1962 "Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod" ~ Gaining and losing its Swedish identity >
          • The 1860 Formation of the Augustana Synod ~ An Account by Mr. Holmquist >
            • Their 1892 "Augustana Women's Missionary Society" ~ An account by Ms. Humphrey >
              • The 2000 - 2016 "Augustana Heritage Association"
      • Their 1879 "Swedish Mission Church" formation by former Bethany Lutheran Church members ​ due to the "atonement" issue ​ ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist >
        • Their 1879 "Swedish Mission Church" formation by former Bethany Lutheran Church members ​ due to the "atonement" issue ​ ~ An account by Mr. Bill Carlson
      • Their 1907 "Bethany Home" ~ With links to the Swedish King's visit and "The Bethany Home Story" >
        • 2020, "Bethany Home Association changes its name to Bethany Village"
        • 2022 "Bethany Home to Bethany + Village" ~ A History of Caring ~ A Presentation to the SVHA by Mr. Kris Erikson
      • Their 1909 and 1919 Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicles ~ Compiled and written by Bethany Lutheran Church Rev. Dr. Bergin, members and others
      • Their 1910 English speaking "Messiah Lutheran Church" formation by former Bethany Lutheran Church members ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
        • An account on the 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Bergin's 1909 ​"Pioneer Swedish-American Culture of Central Kansas"
      • Their 1916 Sohlberg House ​ ~ 322 North First [College] Street ~After their honeymoon
      • Their 1919 Lindsborg Historical Society's "Coronado Heights" ~ Emil's 1907 thesis and Lydia's photographs >
        • The ​1919 Formation of the "Lindsborg Historical Society" ~ The Smoky Hills' "Smoky Hill" christened "Coronado Heights" May 8, 1924 >
          • G. N. Malm's role in the development of the Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights ​~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
            • Lindsborg Historical Society and Coronado Heights History ~ Three (3) accounts by Mrs. Jaderborg, former SVHA secretary >
              • Author Bill Carlson, Smoky Valley Historical Association member, ​reports on Coronado Heights history
      • Their 1920 Old Main Apartments of Bethany College ~ Living on campus with the students for 20 years
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead," "Our Peaceful Acres" >
        • Their 1873 Swede House ~ A close twin to Lindsborg Founder Rev. Olof Olsson's stone house >
          • Peaceful Acres Smoky Valley descendant friends and helpers ~ Honoring them and remembering them
      • Their 1940 Deere Home to 1943 ​~ 344 North First ~ With new occupants after Lydia >
        • Emil's and Nina's 1961Thunderbird on the Bethany Campus ~ Promoting 21st Century Bethany College in Silicon Valley with alumni and students
      • Their 1941 "Svensk Hyllningsfest" and Dr. Holwerda's Role ~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda & Mr. Lundstrom >
        • Their 1964, "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded by Mrs. Jaderborg ~ An account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie
      • 1943, After Lydia, Emil's part planning Lindsborg's "first" hospital and Dr. Holwerda's role ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom
    • Their "1881" on . . . Lutheran Bethany Academy 1882 ~ Their 1882 "First Lutheran College Building"
    • Their 1882-1966 "Bethany College Museum" ~ The Natural History and Pioneer Swedish Collections >
      • Fossils Collection ~ From Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966, ~ “The Find” >
        • Taxidermy Collection ~ From Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966 >
          • 900 Item Emil O. Deere Pioneer Swedish Collection ~ From Old Main to the McPherson County Old Mill Museum, 1966 >
            • Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection ~ From Old Main to the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, 1966
      • The 1966 Bethany College Museum Collections Move to the Old Mill Museum ~ Dr. Leon Lungstrom's Role >
        • Articles on the Bethany College Museum Collections Move of 1966
    • Their 1882 on . . . Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah" Performances >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press and Broadcasts >
        • Special 20th Century "Messiah" Performances >
          • "The Notables, Messiah Week, . . . ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg >
            • Handel's "Messiah" & Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
    • Their “1899 on . . .” Bethany College “Swedish Artists’ Midwest Art Exhibition” ​~ An account by the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery
    • Their 1903 on . . . Bethany College "Rockar Stockar!" and the 1902 on . . . "Terrible Swedes" ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
    • Their “1904 on . . .” Bethany College St. Louis World's Fair “Swedish Pavilion”
    • Their "1895 to 1981" Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations ~ 15, 20, 25, 100 years >
      • Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896. The First "Bethany Annual," 1895-96 >
        • Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901. The "Forget-Me-Not," 1902 >
          • The King of Sweden's Emissary, 1901 >
            • Yale University's Bethany Club
      • Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906. ~ "Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College"
      • Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981 ~ "The Centennial of Bethany College"
    • Their 1937 Bethany College's Introduction to 1638 New Sweden >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
  • Swedish Immigration Story, 1854
    • "The Story of the Old Spoon" by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg & Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937
    • Who They Left Behind
    • From Sweden with Love Collections >
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867 >
        • The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass >
          • The Swedish Sohlberg Letters
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines, (c1940s)
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899
      • The Swedish Sohlberg Albums ~ Late 19th early 20th centuries
      • The Swedish Deere Coins -- 1801-1929
  • Artist Lydia Sohlberg Deere
    • Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900-1925 >
      • The Hats
      • The Smoky River
      • The Smoky Hills >
        • Coronado Heights -- One Winter's Day
      • In and Around Lindsborg
      • Sohlberg House with Parents >
        • Our Sohlberg Home and Neighbor Alma Luise Olson
      • Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 >
        • Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s >
          • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting >
            • Lydia's "Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939 >
              • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930
      • "LYDIA'S WORLD" Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 - 2011 >
        • ​"LYDIA'S WORLD" Smoky Valley descendant friends caring for her work ​ ~ Honoring them and remembering them ~ 2005-2011
      • 2021 Lindsborg's Lydia Sohlberg Deere ~ Discovered by Palm Springs, former "NY Times" Writer of Lindsborg's Christina Lillian
    • Lydia as Bethany College Lane Hart Hall Dean of Women, 1906 - 1913 ~ Swedish and Scandinavian Handwork Instructor >
      • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
        • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK
      • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork and Members >
        • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940
    • Lydia's Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota Collection >
        • The Sketches
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches >
          • Lydia's "Palm Springs Magazine " 1938-39
    • Lydia's Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871-1954 >
      • Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén >
        • Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition >
          • Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through his students' paintings
    • Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén's "Art Exhibitions" and "Reviews" .. 1893-1940 >
      • Lydia's Art Professor Sandzén's Exhibition at the Babcock Gallery in New York, 1922
      • Lydia's Sandzén's Body of Work Reviewed by N.Y.C, 1984 "American Impressionism," author William H. Gerdts
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Charles Edward Hallberg, 1855-1940
    • Lydia's and Sandzén's Swedish Artist Friend Oscar Brousse Jacobson, 1882-1966
    • Lydia’s Sohlberg Family Connection to Sandzén, 1880-1894-1993
  • Scientist Emil O. Deere
    • Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Bethany Photography, 1906-1925 >
      • Bethany College "Campus from Above"
      • Bethany College "The Gateway," 1917 and "Bethany Campus Association," 1912
      • Bethany College "College Street," today's "North First Street"
      • Bethany College "Campus Life"
      • Bethany College "Field Trips"
      • Bethany College's "Earliest Buildings" >
        • Bethany College "​Ladies Dormitory" / "Lane Hart Hall" 1883 - 1899 - 1983
        • Bethany College "Old Main" 1887-1968 >
          • Lydia's and Emil's Old Main Apartments, 1920 to 1940 >
            • Deere's Bethany College Classes in Old Main
        • Bethany College "Messiah Auditorium" / "Ling Auditorium" / "Ling Gymnasium" 1895 - 1946
        • Bethany College "Swedish Pavilion," 1904
        • Bethany College "​Carnegie Library" / "Bethany Library" 1908 - 1980
        • Bethany College "​Bethany Academy" 1882 -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Deere's 1959 Interview on Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson (On YouTube) >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857-1904 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
        • Swensson's "Bethany Lutheran Church" and the "Augustana Lutheran Synod"
        • Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: "The Bethany Academy of 1882"
        • Olsson's Influence, the Swenssons,' the Musicians' and Singers,' "Messiah," 1882 on … >
          • Mr. Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr. ~ One Lindsborg "Messiah" Commitment from 1901-1954
        • Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s
        • Swensson's "Bethany College Museum," 1882 - 1966
      • In Memorium**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
    • Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943 ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist >
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904 - 1941
    • Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882-1966 >
      • Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections ~ to 1966
      • Deere's Dr. Lungstrom's Bethany College "Museum" Chapter >
        • Coronado Expedition Chain Mail and Bethany College Museum History ~ An account from Dr. Lungstrom's book
      • Dr. Lungstrom's "Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent"
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 ~ The bullet points >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
    • The Deere's Library ~ What remains of 2,000 books -- pending project
    • Deere's Old Main Office ​ ~ SVHA member Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers >
      • Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ Prolific writer in America and Sweden from approximately 1879 to 1904
      • Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad
      • Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin ~ Wrote, compiled and printed Swedish foundational history on the 1869 Smoky Valley Augustana Lutherans of Bethany Church and settlement of Lindsborg, for 1909 and 1919 >
        • 1909, Renamed in 1965 to "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," and translated ~ By Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt, Editor Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
          • 1965, "Table of Contents" for “Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas”
        • 1919, Renamed in 1969 to "The Smoky Valley in the After Years," and translated ~ Part 1 by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt and Part 2 by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg >
          • 1969, "Table of Contents" for “The Smoky Valley in the After Years"
      • Prince Wilhelm of Sweden ~ A one-time Smoky Valley Writer ~ His 1927 article on Lindsborg for the Scandinavian Review
      • Dr. Emory K. Lindquist ~ "Fourth" President of Bethany College ~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College from their earliest years >
        • ​1953, "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist and Contents & Illustrations
        • 1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist >
          • "Bethany in Kansas" PART I ~ Contents & Illustrations
          • "Bethany in Kansas" PART II ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1984 "Hagbard Brase, Beloved Music Master" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist >
          • "Hagbard Brase" ~ Contents and Illustrations
        • 1989 "G. N. Malm - A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist with chapters by Hasselmo, Holm, Skårdal, & translation by Van Boer >
          • "G. N. Malm" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1993 "Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography" ~ Introduction from the "Lindsborg News-Record" News Release >
          • "Birger Sandzén," ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Contents, Photographs, Figures & Color Paintings >
            • "Birger Sandzén" ~ "Foreword" by Dr. William H. Gerdts
            • "Birger Sandzén" ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Preface and Acknowledgments
            • “Birger Sandzén” The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Concluding Observations
            • ​“Birger Sandzén” ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Appendix: Works in Selected Public Collections
      • ​Rev. Bror Carlsson's 1955, 350-page manuscript "Jag Sökte Icke," "I Did Not Seek My Own" ~ Tracing Lindsborg's Spiritual Founder Rev. Olof Olsson's life in Sweden and America with the 1860 Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod
      • Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories and citizens [Remarks on Superintendent Dr. Einar Jaderborg and "Messiah" Bass Soloist Thure Jaderborg] >
        • 1965 "Lindsborg On Record" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1967 "Living in Lindsborg and Other Possibilities" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1973 "Talk About Lindsborg" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • 1976 "Why Lindsborg" ~ An introduction: H. M. Carl XVI Gustaf of the Kingdom of Sweden >
          • 1976 "Why Lindsborg?" ~ Contents & Illustrations
        • ​1990 "Two Reprints" ~ Contents & Illustrations
      • Mr. A. John Pearson ~ Chronicling the "first" 8 Bethany College presidents, "Messiah" history and much more >
        • 1981 ​On "Bethany College" History for 100 Years ~ The Words of Mr. Pearson
        • ​​1982 On " 'Messiah" Centennial History for 100 Years ​ ~ The Compiler, and the Words of, Mr. A. John Pearson ​
      • Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and The Bethany Home Writers ~ Chronicling the beginnings of the Bethany Home​ of 1907 to 1986 >
        • 1986, "The Bethany Home Story," Table of Contents, including listed photos >
          • 1986 "The Bethany Home Story" Foreword and Epilogue, by Rev. Nelson
          • Chapters 1 & 2: "The Origins" & "The Buildings That Have Been Bethany Home""
          • Chapter 3: "The Board and the Sponsoring Church"
          • Chapter 11: Memories of Bethany Home by Residents and Friends
          • "O Bethany Home" - poem
          • The Gentle Art of Caring - Poem by Verna Todd, 92
      • Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom ​~ Chronicling Bethany College natural science and mathematics, the professors and societies, the Museum, and Old Main, 1881-1990 >
        • ​1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" ~ "Table of Contents" >
          • Dr. Lungstrom Chapters >
            • "Introduction"
            • "Bethany College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
            • Bethany College "Museum" ​
            • "Societies on the College Campus Associated with Mathematics and Natural Sciences"
            • ​"Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
            • The Old Main Building and Nelson Science Hall"
            • Bethany College Catalogue Cover
          • Dr. Lungstrom's References >
            • "Bethany Messenger" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1893 to 1987
            • "Lindsborg News-Record" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1901 to 1990
            • "Bethany College Magazine" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1954 to 1990
            • "Daisy" and/or "Bethanian" ~ List of Science & Math Faculty Photographs ~ 1908 - 1990
        • Dr. Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher" "Master Learner" >
          • Dr. Lungstrom ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and tough years on the McPherson County family farm
      • The Smoky Valley Historical Association Writers ~ Chronicling 1993 "Where Did They Live?" "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
      • Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's neighbors, the Galesburg Augustana Lutheran Swedes of Salemsborg and Freemount, with a personal connection, 1868 >
        • 1994 "Pioneer Cross: Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs" ~ Contents & Illustrations ~ The LINKS >
          • "Pioneer Cross: ~ The ​ Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction
          • 1994 "Pioneer Cross: ~ The 1869 Swedish Christmas Ljuskröna Story ​
          • ​ "Pioneer Cross: ~ The Epilogue
      • Mr. Alf Brorson's 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" >
        • "He Gave God Glory" ~ The Story of Olof Olsson ~ Contents & Illustrations >
          • "He Gave God Glory" ~ Transcriptions of "Foreword," "Translator's Foreword" "Acknowledgements," "Postscript" for scholars and scholars-to-be
        • Mr. Alf Brorson ~ Promoting Lindsborg ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to ​Sweden with the "Sweden Letter"
      • Mr. Chris Abercrombie ~ Remembering him as historian, writer, researcher, interviewer and collector of local artifacts - Remembering his legacy >
        • ​The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren ~ Regarding Bethany's challenging times, 1960s to early 70s
      • Mr. Bill Carlson ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories with a personal connection, since 1867 >
        • 2011 ​"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" ~ Contents & Illustrations >
          • ​ "Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" ​ ~ Foreword, Preface, Introduction
          • ​ Part 1 "Lindsborg Then" Chapters 1 - 5
          • Part 2 "​Lindsborg Now " ​Chapter 24: ​"Lindsborg Now In 2010"
          • The "Conclusion" Chapters: Part 1 & Part 2
        • 2016, Mr. Bill Carlson's "Special Visitor to Lindsborg, April 17, 1976, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden"
      • Ms. Karen A. Humphrey ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in the earliest years >
        • 2012 "Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing: The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story" ~The Words of Ms. Humphrey
        • "Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing" ~ Contents & Illustrations
      • Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg, Bethany College and Smoky Valley Photography of Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal, 1887-1945 >
        • 2013 "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time" ~ Contents and Photograph Titles ~ The Sohlberg Deere Portraits >
          • "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal:" ~ Dedication, Foreword by Mrs. Lorna Nelson, Preface by Mr. Don Weddle, Acknowledgments
          • "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal:" ~ The Words of Mrs. Eddy ~ "Life Experiences" "The Smoky Valley"
          • "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal:" ~ The Words of Mrs. Eddy ~ "Studio Cameras," "Studio Remembered" "Gröndal's Career" "Photography as an Art Form" "Professional Organizations"
          • "Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time" ​~ Selections from Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal's Photography from 1887 to 1945​
      • ​ Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ​~ Saving and serving Bethany College, preserving college and Swedish history and culture, writing college history >
        • ​2019 "6 Decades with 12 Bethany College Presidents"​ ~ The words of Mr. Sjogren
        • "6 Decades with 12 Bethany College Presidents"​ ~ Illustrations and Chapters
      • ​Digitalize the Smoky Valley Writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories ~ For their generations to come and for research accessibility
    • ​Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends >
      • ​Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson ~ Remembering Swedish Lutheran Christian Founder of Lindsborg and of Bethany Lutheran Church ​~ LINKS to accounts by Rev. Bror Carlsson, Mr. Alf Brorson, and Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
      • ​​Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson ~ Remembering “Founder” and "Second President" of Bethany College ~ LINKS to accounts by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and much more
      • ​Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the “First Lady” of Lindsborg, ~ "Highlights" from Ms. Humphrey’s book
      • ​Rev. Dr. Edward J. Nelander​ ~ Remembering "First" President of Bethany College ~ Accounts by Dr. Lindquist and Dr. Lundstrom
      • Dr. Johan August Udden ~ Remembering "First" Bethany College professor, founder of the Museum and Spanish Chain Mail, led UT to over $300,000,000 ~ An account by Dr. Lundstrom
      • Mr. Bror Gustaf Gröndal ~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College >
        • Photographers' Bror Gustaf Gröndal & Sarah Margaret Noyd Gröndal ~ Accounts by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg with LINK to Mrs. Eddy's 2013 Book
        • ​"B G GRÖNDAL PHOTOGRAPHER" ~ 2007, 2009 video account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie​ with LINK to Mrs. Eddy's 2013 Book
      • ​Mr. Samuel Thorstenberg ~ Remembering him as the "first" earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" conductor
      • Dr. Hagbard Brase ~ Remembering him as the "second " earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" conductor
      • Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad ~ "Third" President of Bethany College ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
      • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden" ~ The 1965 account by ​Mrs. Jaderborg >
        • Miss Alma Luise Olson ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad ~ The 2012 account by Ms. Humphrey
      • Artist Birger Sandzén ~ Remembering him for "sharing his art with the world," starting "first" at Lindsborg's Bethany College >
        • McPherson Kansas Art Dealer Carl J. Smalley's Impact on Art ~ On Sandzén's introduction to lithography
      • The Greenoughs ~ Margaret & Pelham ~ Their greatest contribution to the little Swedish city of Lindsborg and to honoring the Swedish Artist ~ The Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery >
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        • Charles Pelham Greenough, 3rd. ~ ​His life of embracing the Birger Sandzén family, their art and their community
      • Mr. Gustaf Nathaniel Malm ~ Remembering Lindsborg's Swedish Renaissance Man ~ Accounts by Dr. Lindquist >
        • G. N. Malm and all he did for the Lindsborg community ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg >
          • G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company ​​~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg​ >
            • G. N. Malm's 1916 Christmas Greetings to His Lindsborg Friends
      • The Swedish Lindsborg Builders ~ Remembering them for the lovely homes they built
      • William Holwerda, M.D. ~ Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen ~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom and Mrs. Jaderborg >
        • Dr. William Holwerda ~ Remembering their family doctor with Messiah Lutheran Church tributes ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • Dr. ​& Mrs. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering them and their 29 years of dedication to that Bethany College "Messiah" tradition of excellence >
        • 1976 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College "Swedish King’s," Carl XVI Gustaf's, performance >
          • 1981 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ Remembering him as the "Messiah" conductor for the Bethany College "Centennial Celebration" performance >
            • 1986 Dr. Elmer Copley ~ ~Remembering him as the “Messiah” conductor for the Bethany College televised Holy Easter Week "American Easter"
      • ​Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ​~ Remembering him, Ken Sjogren and others ​ for saving Bethany College from going under! -- "A Miracle in the Making" >
        • Dr. Arvin W. Hahn ~ Remembering him handing me my Bethany College "Bachelor of Arts" Degree on Sunday, May 26,1968
      • Dr. Greta Swenson and Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's “only” "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas," 1986 >
        • Mr. & Mrs. Mark Esping ~ Remembering their Lindsborg's Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • Mr. Claude Koehn ~ Remembering him as restorer and preservationist of Smoky Valley stone farmhouses and other stone structures
      • ​Ms. Rebecca Copley ~ Honoring her as Bethany College's “first” graduate to become an "International Concert and Opera Soprano" >
        • Ms. Copley's International Reviews
      • Mr. Bruce Karstadt ~ Honoring him as a Bethany College graduate for heading up a major national Swedish American institution
      • Dr. Mark Lucas ~ Honoring him as Messiah conductor for bringing the Holy Easter Lindsborg “Oberammergau of the Plains" to a “new” world audience in 2020
    • Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden >
      • ​1882-1966 Bethany College Museum Science Professor Curators ​~ Their earliest collectors and the taxidermists
      • 1894-1962 Bethany College Graduates in Augustana Lutheran Synod World Mission Work ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
      • 1898 Old Mill in Lindsborg, Kansas >
        • ​1962 - 2021 "McPherson County Old Mill Museum Leaders" ~ Detailing ​the Museum's roots to the 1930s ". . . Archeological Society" and more
      • 1901-2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden
      • ​​1919 "Lindsborg Historical Society's" earliest leaders ~ Their mission and preservation projects >
        • 1963 "Smoky Valley Historical Association" (SVHA) later leaders ​~ Some more recent preservation projects
      • ​1961 - 2021 ​"McPherson County Old Mill Museum"
      • ​1971 - 2020 "American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains" Leaders ~ Providing cultural history and heritage programs with significant links to Sweden and Swedish America
      • 1976 His Majesty the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf's Visit to Lindsborg April 17th >
        • The Lindsborg & Bethany College "Swedes" ~ Honored by the King of Sweden, June 6, 1976
      • 1977​ Swedish Emigrant Institute Staff from Växjö, Småland, Visits Lindsborg October 16-18
      • 1978 Swedish Documentary Film Crew Visits Lindsborg October 2-9 >
        • "Lindsborg News-Record" Clippings of 1978 Swedish Film Crew Visit
  • Contacts
    • For 1869 Lindsborg CONTACT Today > > > > > > > > to Yesteryears > >
      • ​Lydia's Lindsborg Photography​, ​1900 - 1925 >
        • "A Time to Remember" 1882 - 1988 >
          • A Historical Count of Lindsborg Residents ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes
    • ​For 1881 Bethany College CONTACT Today > > > > > > > > > to Yesteryears > >
      • Lydia's Bethany Photography, 1906 - 1925 >
        • Their "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College 21st Year Celebration, 1902 >
          • "A Time to Remember" 1882 - 1988 >
            • A Historical Count ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes >
              • "Bethany Campus Walk”
    • For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today >
      • Sandzén: "Ecstasy of Color" ~ PBS Doucmentary ~ Aired 6/11/21
    • Closing Remarks >
      • Traveling through SWEDES ~ "The Table of Contents" "The Outline Online"
      • Traveling through SWEDES ​~ The Discoveries Along the Way," since 2011
    • ​ The 1941 Smoky Valley "Pioneer Cross Memorial" ​~ ​By Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist >
      • The 2009 "Smoky Valley Swedish People's Virtual Memorial"
"The Other Swedes"
​~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
<> The Historians, The Preservationists <>
Their Swedish American Lutheran Kansas Smoky Valley Legacy Listings ​​​
​ Bergin, Swensson, Lindquist, Carlsson, Jaderborg,  Billdt, Pearson, Nelson Lungstrom, Holmquist, Brorson, Marshall, Abercrombie, Stewart, Carlson, Humphrey, Eddy, Sjogren 
Bethany Church and Bethany College Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
The Bethany Home Writers & The Smoky Valley Historical Association Writers
With Editors: Jaderborg, Pearson, Marshall.  With Translators: Billdt, Ringstrom,
 Winblad 
 
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Without the works of these authors to draw on, SWEDES could have never been as detailed as it is today.  In a large or small way, I have used their articles, publications, and books in compiling that foundational and early history on Lindsborg and Bethany College.  As old as many of these books are, they are too important to Smoky Valley Swedish cultural history and heritage to be collecting dust, if they are, as their use is timeless and vital for the education of succeeding Smoky Valley generations of leaders and educators, and Bethany College administrations and faculties who are the descendants and academic caretakers upon which the future preservation and promotion of this Swedish and Swedish American cultural history and heritage solely depends, for its survival, as it has in the past. 

In the process of their compositions, these Smoky Valley authors have truly become Kansas Smoky Valley historians and preservationists of this regional Swedish and Swedish American Augustana Lutheran history. They have chronicled Swedish cultural life of becoming American pioneers, entering into a new life in a new land of untilled rich soil, where they could worship God freely while thanking Him for the opportunity of creating a good life for themselves that was before them, in the Native American territory of the Kaw Nation tribe in the late 1860s.  

This Swedish American Lutheran Kansas Smoky Valley anthology has laid the foundational infrastructure supporting the origins of Lindsborg's and Bethany College’s true identity revealed in their Swedish Augustana Lutheran practices and traditions which created their treasured cultural heritage histories and legacies.  Through the decades to present time, the reading of these works created visions and paths for descendant generations to follow, resulting in seamless Swedish American preservation legacy building.  

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Thus, in turn, strong vibrant colorful Swedish threads have been weaved into the American cultural tapestry of the Central Plains of our nation, establishing, therefore, the thriving Lindsborg, the "Little Sweden," that, in the past, has been a draw for visiting Swedish royalty, Swedish scholars, Swedish folk artists, and Swedish artists, musicians and opera singers.  Many of these visits were endeavors to maintain connections with, and provide support to, the last-living-links to this culture that was founded in 1869 by Swedish Lutheran Pietists.

Every effort has been made to pay tribute to these Smoky Valley Writers and to honor their works by sharing selections of their writings with the viewer, especially with Smoky Valley leaders and educators at all levels unfamiliar with these books and publications, for the benefit of educating the local population and their students in this, their, local foundational Swedish and Swedish American community history. 

These selections can become "starting points" for local educators to create "lesson plans" for all levels of teaching on the history of Lindsborg and the other Smoky Valley communities, at an academic level for scholars who are from Swedish American communities or are Swedish American or are Swedish could also develop some kind of Swedish American Smoky Valley studies program.  There certainly is enough information to do so.

Such endeavors would certainly build up and strengthen the Swedish American academic 
reputation of Lindsborg, the Kansas Smoky Valley and Bethany College with Swedish America and Sweden.

Also, the selections are introductions for those American, Swedish and Swedish American history scholars interested in Swedish Lutheran Lindsborg and Swedish Lutheran Bethany College with the 1860 Swedish Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod component that lost its Swedish foundational identity forever in 1962, when it was merged with other U. S. ethnic founded Lutheran synods.
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Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin
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Great recognition must go to Bethany Lutheran Church and those members in charge of creating the archives from the very beginning of the founding of Lindsborg and the other Smoky Valley Swedish communities, and to those who have carried on the work to this very year of 2023.  Their early pastors, Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson ​(1841-1900), Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson (1857-1904) and Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin (1866-1944) ensured that a standard would be set for the keeping of the most accurate archive records on this most important foundational Smoky Valley American Swedish Lutheran cultural history.  Rev. Bergin was the first to write and to gather writers about their experiences as Swedish pioneer immigrants which resulted in the two volumes in Swedish that he had compiled in 1909:  Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen, and in 1919: Lindsborg, Efter Femtio Ӓr.  These books were translated by Rev. Bergin's daughter Ruth Bergin Billdt: the 1909, in 1965 to Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas, and the 1919, in 1969 to The Smoky Valley in the After Years.  The contents of these tomes, no doubt, provided the encouragement needed for future Swedes to follow suit and to write their Smoky Valley stories.

The population of Lindsborg was always very small. Her neighboring Swedish communities of Salemsborg and Freemont were even much smaller (about which author Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist's 1994 classic Pioneer Cross, Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs so devoutly memorializes).  In the middle of the 20th century, Lindsborg maintained an average population of around 2,300.  Yet, out of this little rural Swedish and Swedish American farming community known for its fine Lutheran churches and college, museum, professors, artists and folkartists, musicians and singers, through the years came a small yet fine group of humble and heartfelt history writers who would publish just enough books covering the most obvious subjects which has turned out to be a Smoky Valley Writers anthology used by SWEDES.

​Two of these writers, themselves, would each leave an anthology behind: They were Dr. Emory K. Lindquist 
(1908-1992) and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg ​(1918-2016).     Three collectively would leave behind what would become a trilogy on Bethany College:  They were Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, Dr. Leon Lungstrom (1915-2000), and Mr. Kenneth Sjogren (1935-2022).     In Dr. Lungstrom's book on the fields of science and math from the beginnings of the College, research reveals that it may contain the "only" documented information on the former reputable Bethany College Museum (1882-1966) since the College library reported no file on such a museum, nor had the McPherson County Old Mill Museum (1962-8/2021) promoted the College's natural history collections that it was given in 1966 publicly, since the late 1970s.                 
Most important authors in Sweden, Mr. Alf Brorson's and his father, Rev. Bror Carlsson's
(1901-1967) works have been responsible for maintaining that "connection" of the spiritual Lutheran founder of Lindsborg, Pastor Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (​1841-1900) from the 1869 Värmland, Sweden, that connects today's Lindsborg Swedes,' last-living-links to that history, since 1993.  In addition, Mr. Brorson's periodic Sweden Letter published since 2008 in the Lindsborg News-Record keeps the Swedes of Lindsborg up to date on topics and activities close to their hearts in Sweden.            

Author Mr. A. John Pearson (1938-2023) wrote much about, and for, the community and the College. His writings were wonderful to read, short yet jam packed with facts. His writing on the Bethany College presidents "in a nutshell" for the College's publication, Centennial Celebration of 1881-1981," was one of his finest works!

Then, 
Ms. Karen A. Humphrey, former Bethany College Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Coordinator of the prestigious 1999 Pearson Distinguished Professor of Swedish Studies Program, authored the first book ever written on a Lindsborg woman, one of great Christian Lutheran faith and leadership whose good works, among other endeavors, resulted in the founding of the Bethany College Oratorio Society, internationally known for the Easter Holy Week Lindsborg George Frideric Handel Messiah performances, that first began humbly in 1882 in a Smoky Valley Lutheran church. To this year of 2023, that Holy Easter Sunday Messiah performance tradition continues.   

Retired Lindsborg historian Mr. Bill Carlson (1930-2018) was deeply concerned with the preservation of his city's Swedish and Swedish American history and cultural heritage, so he made writing his avenue to preserve and promote of what he could of this history and culture.  He would ask the "hard questions," making one think seriously "if enough" was being done to preserve, restore and promote the unique Smoky Valley community's cultural history and heritage.  He starts the P​reface of his 2010 "Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" with:

     "For a number of years, we have been waiting for someone to compile, research, and write about the early history of Lindsborg.  Waiting, waiting!  A good number of long-time residents of Lindsborg have left us, who were very capable of sharing their memories of this fine Scandinavian city."

Most of the time, Mr. Carlson concluded his writings with:  "History not recorded, is perhaps history lost!"

His grandparents, Magnus and Maria Carlson, were married in Sweden on April 27, 1867, by the 
soon-to-be 1869 Lindsborg founder Rev. Olof Olsson of Värmland, Sweden.  The next day they sailed to America, to travel west to the Kansas Smoky Valley to join other Swedes involved in the founding of Lindsborg.     

Finally, n
ote that author Mrs. Margaret Dahlq​uist Eddy (1928-2017) in 2013 provided this Smoky Valley community with its "only" historical photography book of 92 professional photographs (out of tens of thousands, no doubt) taken by her grandfather Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal from 1887-1945.  Her thoughtful book, beautifully designed and published professionally by her daughter Cynthia Eddy of New York City, is exceptional and treasured, and reflects a true visual statement of this most unique and special Swedish and Swedish American community from its earliest years!

Lindquist​
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Jaderborg ​
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 Lungstrom ​
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Sjogren
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  Humphrey​
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Carlson
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​Of all the writers, there is one whose books have impacted the life of the Kansas Smoky Valley people most, especially in Lindsborg and at Bethany College.  His name is Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, Lindsborg born, Bethany College graduate of 1930, an Oxford University Rhodes Scholar, serving Bethany College as a professor and then president from 1941 to 1953.  Following his death, he was honored and remembered by close friends Rev. Emmet E. Eklund and Mrs. Marion Lorimer Eklund when they published their 1998 book, The Difference He Made, A Biography of Emory K. Lindquist.  This title, "The Difference He Made," says it all.  It is such a fitting epitaph for the person he was, and he was such a role model to follow.

In Dr. Lindquist's life, the opportunities that were given to him were received by him from a spirit of true humility and gratefulness.  A demonstration of this posture was at Bethany College when he learned of the 
Oxford University Rhodes Scholarship honor.  On December 12, 1929, after the morning Old Main Chapel service, following with a special Senior Class session of which he was president, his response to this most distinguished honor was: 

 "There is no personal credit on my own, for we must remember that whatever we ourselves have, God has given us." **


** The Difference He Made, top of page 5, "A Defining Event."  see it HERE.

Consistent with his humble attitude are those of the Smoky Valley Writers who were simply answering "the call" in using their God-given gift of writing, and, in so doing, like Dr. Lindquist, were glorifying God.  In that same spirit is the legacy listings of these Writers, Editors and Translators presented.
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​<> Their Swedish American Lutheran Kansas Smoky Valley Legacy Listings ​ <>

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THE EDITORS

Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
(1918-2016)
- Arrived in Lindsborg in 1946 -
Editor of many newly translated early Swedish Lindsborg books to English
An excellent research writer on many topics

Mr. A. John Pearson
(1936-2023)

- Arrived in Lindsborg in 1970 -
Founder of "Smoky Valley Historical Publications" and "Bethany College Press" 

"Editor-at-Large" for many Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley Authors
A behind the scenes' excellent writer for the college and community


Mr. John Marshall
- Arrived in Lindsborg in 2001 -

2022, Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame Inductee
Former Lindsborg News-Record editor-owner, 2001-2012,
who composed and published most important stories from
Swedish American last-living-links to foundational and early Smoky Valley history
​The Lindsborg News-Record "Valley Voice" columnist


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THE TRANSLATORS


​Ruth Bergin Billdt
(1897-1976)
1965 Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas
From the 1909 Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen
 
by Rev. Alfred Bergin


 1969 "The Smoky Valley in The After Years."
 From the 1919 ​"Lindsborg Efter Femtio Ӓr”
 by Rev. Alfred Bergin



Martha Winblad
 (1908-1981)

 1978, Anna Olsson, A Child of the Prairie
From the 1917 En Prärieunges Funderingar,
by Anna Olsson


Rev. Martin Ringstrom
(1908-2009) 

1984, He Gave God Glory by Bror Carlsson
From the 1955 Jag Sökte Icke Mitt (I Did Not Seek My Own)


Mrs. Dorothy Esping
(1914-2010)
​for the research
​ for Mr. Thomas Holmquist's 

1994, "Pioneer Cross: Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs"
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THE WRITERS

Note: Clicking the 
LINK will direct you to the author in most cases

Prince Wilhelm of Sweden
(1884-1965)
~ A one-time Smoky Valley Writer
~ His 1927 article on Lindsborg for the Scandinavian Review
 NOT LINKED YET​

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Rev. Bror Carlsson
(1901-1967)
of Sweden
​1955

Jag sökte icke mitt  /  I Did Not Seek My Own
manuscript

LINK
to the condensed version by
Mr. Alf Brorson
of Sweden
2001

He Gave God Glory -- The Story of Olof Olsson

LINK
translated by
Rev.
 Martin Ringstrom
(1908-2009)

of Lindsborg



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Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
(1857-1904)
"Second" Bethany College President (1889-1904)

​​1898, 1895-1896, 1902
Again in Sweden     Bethany Annual     Forget-Me-Not Annual 
LINK



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Bethany Church and Bethany College and the Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
​"In Memoriams"
1904
In Memoriam -- Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
LINK
1943
In Memoriam -- Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad
LINK



​Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin
(1866 - 1944)
 Ruth Bergin Billdt* 
(1897-1976)​
​1909 / 1965 
Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen /
Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas

1919 / 1969
Lindsborg, Efter Femtio Ӓr /
The Smoky Valley in the After Years

​Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg shared the authorship of this book with Mrs. Billdt
LINK



Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
(1908-1992)
"Fourth" Bethany College President (1941-1953)
​1953, 1975, 1984, 1989, 1993 ​
Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas
  
Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college       Hagbard Brase: Beloved Music Master
G.N. Malm: A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career     
Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography 

LINK



Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
 (1918-2016)
​
​​1965, 1967, 1973,
1976,
1990 (1980, 1981)

 Lindsborg on Record     Living in Lindsborg And Other Possibilities     Talk About Lindsborg
Why Lindsborg?    
Two Reprints:
1980 Selma Lind and Lindsborg
1981 Swedish Architectural Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley Community
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The Smoky Valley in the After Years
Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt shared authorship with Mrs.Jaderborg
​LINK



Mr. ​A. John Pearson
(1936-2023)
​​​1981
​The Centennial of Bethany College
& 
1982
The Messiah Centennial

LINK



Rev. Eugene K. Nelson
(
1914-2000)
The Bethany Home Writers

​1986
"The Bethany Home Story"
LINK

​
Dr. Leon Lungstrom  
(​
1915-2000)
​
1990
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
LINK



Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist
​
​1994
Pioneer Cross -- Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs
LINK




​Mr. Alf Brorson
~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their Swedish Lutheran Christian Founder Rev. Olsson in 2001,
and to
Sweden with the "Sweden Letter" since 2008

​LINK 
The Sweden Letter is an ongoing publication!



​
​Mr. Chris Abercrombie
​(1949 - 2017)
 Provided innumerable Lindsborg News-Record articles,
and created
the Vår Historia, the Smoky Valley Historical Association's bi-monthly newsletter
                   during his presidency while 
writing ongoing Swedish Smoky Valley stories from the past

LINK
\/
Mr. Tim Stewart
Became Smoky Valley Historical Association president in 2017 and 
continues writing for and publishing the V
år Historia as his predecessor did
The 
Vå
r Historia is an ongoing publication!



Mr. ​Bill Carlson
(1930-2018)
​​​2011, 2014, 2016
Lindsborg Then And Lindsborg Now      The Founding of Lindsborg
Special Visitor to Lindsborg, April 17, 1976, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
LINK



Mrs. Karen A. Humphrey
2012
Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing  --  ​The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story ,
2020
​​Miss Alma Luise Olson
 LINK 


​
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
(1927-2017)
​​
2013

Through the Lens of B.G. Gröndal: Keeper of His Time
LINK




Mr. Kenneth Sjogren
(1935-2022)
​
2019
6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents
LINK



The Smoky Valley Historical Association Writers
​1993
(Revised in 1996 and in 2005)
~ Chronicling "Where Did They Live" -- "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
 LINK


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**Rev. & Mrs. Emmet E. Eklund's 1998 book, The Difference He Made, A Biography of Emory K. Lindquist, Chapter 1: " A Defining Event," found at                the beginning of page 5: HERE.

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