"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
<> The Historians, The Preservationists <>
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
<> The Historians, The Preservationists <>
Without the works of these authors to draw on, SWEDES could have never been. In a large or a small way, I have used their articles, publications, and books in compiling that foundational and early history on Lindsborg and Bethany College. Old as many of these books are, they are too important to Smoky Valley cultural history and heritage to be collecting dust as their use is timeless and vital for the education of succeeding generations.
In the process of their compositions, these Smoky Valley authors have truly become Kansas Smoky Valley historians and preservationists of this regional Swedish American Augustana Lutheran history. They have chronicled Swedish cultural life as becoming American pioneers entering into a new life in a new land where they could worship God freely and have the opportunity of creating a good life for themselves that was before them in the Smoky Valley Native American territory of the Kaw Nation tribe in the late 1860s.
This Swedish American Smoky Valley anthology has laid the foundational infrastructure supporting the origins of Lindsborg and Bethany College’s true Swedish Lutheran practices and traditions, the cultural heritage histories and legacies. Through the decades, the reading of these works have created visions and paths for descendant generations to follow resulting into seamless Swedish preservation legacy building, without their even realizing it. Thus, in turn, strong vibrant colorful threads have been weaved into the Swedish American cultural tapestry of the Great Plains of our nation.
Every effort has been made to credit the Swedish American Smoky Valley Writers' works, and to honor their works by sharing selections of their writings, of their determined research finding words of history with the viewer and more-so to promote and showcase them, particularly for Smoky Valley educators and Bethany College administration and faculty who may have never read them, and, also for Swedish American, American and Swedish scholars, all of whom, if they were to read these works of old, would see the importance of a "Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies" program, with Lindsborg as the center for such a program and Bethany College as the academic institution sponsoring such a cultural foundational endeavor, thus returning to a close collaboration of like-minded mines between "the town and the gown"* to further develop and enrich its foundational Bethany College and community Swedish and Swedish American culture.
This could put a halt to, to mitigate, the unnoticed ongoing losses of the "bits and pieces" of Lindsborg and Bethany College "cultural history," which in turn continues to eat away at the bits and pieces of the fabric of the "cultural heritage" of the community, as it has in the past, that is now gone forever!
Of all these writers, there is one whose books have impacted the life of the Smoky Valley people most, especially in Lindsborg and at Bethany College. His name is Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1908-1992) and was celebrated just after his death when friends published "The Difference He Made," the title of which says it all, and is a fitting epitaph for the person he was. This book can be found HERE.
Let us now honor and remember him and these other Smoky Valley Writers, these historians and preservationist, and their "good works," in this, their cherished legacy collection listings!
* From Dr. Lindquist's 1989 G. N. Malm: A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career, Chapter 8, "Town and Gown: Community and College."
In the process of their compositions, these Smoky Valley authors have truly become Kansas Smoky Valley historians and preservationists of this regional Swedish American Augustana Lutheran history. They have chronicled Swedish cultural life as becoming American pioneers entering into a new life in a new land where they could worship God freely and have the opportunity of creating a good life for themselves that was before them in the Smoky Valley Native American territory of the Kaw Nation tribe in the late 1860s.
This Swedish American Smoky Valley anthology has laid the foundational infrastructure supporting the origins of Lindsborg and Bethany College’s true Swedish Lutheran practices and traditions, the cultural heritage histories and legacies. Through the decades, the reading of these works have created visions and paths for descendant generations to follow resulting into seamless Swedish preservation legacy building, without their even realizing it. Thus, in turn, strong vibrant colorful threads have been weaved into the Swedish American cultural tapestry of the Great Plains of our nation.
Every effort has been made to credit the Swedish American Smoky Valley Writers' works, and to honor their works by sharing selections of their writings, of their determined research finding words of history with the viewer and more-so to promote and showcase them, particularly for Smoky Valley educators and Bethany College administration and faculty who may have never read them, and, also for Swedish American, American and Swedish scholars, all of whom, if they were to read these works of old, would see the importance of a "Swedish American Smoky Valley Studies" program, with Lindsborg as the center for such a program and Bethany College as the academic institution sponsoring such a cultural foundational endeavor, thus returning to a close collaboration of like-minded mines between "the town and the gown"* to further develop and enrich its foundational Bethany College and community Swedish and Swedish American culture.
This could put a halt to, to mitigate, the unnoticed ongoing losses of the "bits and pieces" of Lindsborg and Bethany College "cultural history," which in turn continues to eat away at the bits and pieces of the fabric of the "cultural heritage" of the community, as it has in the past, that is now gone forever!
Of all these writers, there is one whose books have impacted the life of the Smoky Valley people most, especially in Lindsborg and at Bethany College. His name is Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1908-1992) and was celebrated just after his death when friends published "The Difference He Made," the title of which says it all, and is a fitting epitaph for the person he was. This book can be found HERE.
Let us now honor and remember him and these other Smoky Valley Writers, these historians and preservationist, and their "good works," in this, their cherished legacy collection listings!
* From Dr. Lindquist's 1989 G. N. Malm: A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career, Chapter 8, "Town and Gown: Community and College."
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<> Their Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley Anthology Listings <>
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Mr. A. John Pearson
Founder of "Smoky Valley Historical Publications" and "Bethany College Press"
"Editor-at-Large" for many Smoky Valley books and writings on "The Other Swedes"
A behind the scenes' excellent writer, specializing in short writings, go HERE for an example,
"A Short History of Bethany"
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Mr. A. John Pearson
Founder of "Smoky Valley Historical Publications" and "Bethany College Press"
"Editor-at-Large" for many Smoky Valley books and writings on "The Other Swedes"
A behind the scenes' excellent writer, specializing in short writings, go HERE for an example,
"A Short History of Bethany"
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Mr. John Marshall
A journalist, former Lindsborg News-Record editor-owner,
composes and shared most important stories
from Swedish American last-living-links to earliest Smoky Valley history
Mr. John Marshall
A journalist, former Lindsborg News-Record editor-owner,
composes and shared most important stories
from Swedish American last-living-links to earliest Smoky Valley history
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Rev. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson
from Sweden
~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden
and in Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
For
2001
He Gave God Glory -- The Story of Olof Olsson
go Here
Rev. Bror Carlsson and Mr. Alf Brorson
from Sweden
~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden
and in Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
For
2001
He Gave God Glory -- The Story of Olof Olsson
go Here
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Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books
for local, national and European readers
For
1898, 1895-1896, 1902
Again in Sweden Bethany Annual Forget-Me-Not Annual
go Here
Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
~ An author of countless Swedish & English publications, newspapers, articles and books
for local, national and European readers
For
1898, 1895-1896, 1902
Again in Sweden Bethany Annual Forget-Me-Not Annual
go Here
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Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad
- from direct speeches made during the funerals and bound later titled
"In Memoriams"
For
1904
In Memoriam -- Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
go Here
For
1943
In Memoriam -- Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad
go Here
Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad
- from direct speeches made during the funerals and bound later titled
"In Memoriams"
For
1904
In Memoriam -- Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
go Here
For
1943
In Memoriam -- Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad
go Here
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Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
~ Chronicling Lindsborg Photographer Swede B.G. Gröndal, 1887 -1945
For
THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME.
PENDING
Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy
~ Chronicling Lindsborg Photographer Swede B.G. Gröndal, 1887 -1945
For
THROUGH THE LENS OF B.G. GRONDAL: KEEPER OF HIS TIME.
PENDING
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Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin / Ruth Bergin Billdt*
(1866- 1944 / 1897-1976)
~ Compiling earliest Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
For
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*
go Here
*Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
(1918-2016)
shared the authorship of this book with Mrs. Billdt
Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin / Ruth Bergin Billdt*
(1866- 1944 / 1897-1976)
~ Compiling earliest Swedish Smoky Valley Augustana Lutheran settlements' histories and more
For
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*
go Here
*Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
(1918-2016)
shared the authorship of this book with Mrs. Billdt
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Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
(1908-1992)
~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College from their earliest years
For:
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
PENDING
Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
(1908-1992)
~ Chronicling Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College from their earliest years
For:
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
PENDING
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Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
[Selma Lind]
(1918-2016)
~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early citizens
For
1965, 1967, 1973, 1976, 1990
Lindsborg on Record Living in Lindsborg And Other Possibilities Talk About Lindsborg
Why Lindsborg?
Two Reprints (from Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterlies):
Selma Lind and Lindsborg, 1980;
Swedish Architectural Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley Community, 1981
go Here
and for
her editorial and authorship contributions to the 2 volumes of
Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin and Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt:
Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas
The Smoky Valley in the After Years
go Here
and scroll down
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
[Selma Lind]
(1918-2016)
~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early citizens
For
1965, 1967, 1973, 1976, 1990
Lindsborg on Record Living in Lindsborg And Other Possibilities Talk About Lindsborg
Why Lindsborg?
Two Reprints (from Swedish Pioneer Historical Quarterlies):
Selma Lind and Lindsborg, 1980;
Swedish Architectural Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley Community, 1981
go Here
and for
her editorial and authorship contributions to the 2 volumes of
Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin and Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt:
Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas
The Smoky Valley in the After Years
go Here
and scroll down
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Dr. Leon Lungstrom
(1915-2000)
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
~ chronicling the professors' college years
(Providing the "only known" written account on the Bethany College Museum)
For
1990
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
Dr. Leon Lungstrom
(1915-2000)
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
~ chronicling the professors' college years
(Providing the "only known" written account on the Bethany College Museum)
For
1990
"History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
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Mrs. Karen A. Humphrey
~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture
in the earliest years
For
2012
Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing -- The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story ,
go Here;
and
2020
Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad
~ An account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
go Here
Mrs. Karen A. Humphrey
~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture
in the earliest years
For
2012
Grace, Faith and the Power of Singing -- The Alma Christina Lind Swensson Story ,
go Here;
and
2020
Miss Alma Luise Olson
~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad
~ An account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
go Here
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For
Mr. A. John Pearson's
~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1882 to 1983
in
1981
The Centennial of Bethany College
go Here
For
Mr. Kenneth Sjogren
(1935-2022)
~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1941 to 2016
go Here
found in his
2019
6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents
For
Mr. A. John Pearson's
~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1882 to 1983
in
1981
The Centennial of Bethany College
go Here
For
Mr. Kenneth Sjogren
(1935-2022)
~ Chronicling the Bethany College Presidents from 1941 to 2016
go Here
found in his
2019
6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents
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Mr. Bill Carlson
(1930-2018)
~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867
For
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
PENDING
Mr. Bill Carlson
(1930-2018)
~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867
For
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
PENDING
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Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist
~ Chronicling Lindsborg's neighboring Swedish communities, with a personal connection, 1868
For
1994
Pioneer Cross -- Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs
PENDING
Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist
~ Chronicling Lindsborg's neighboring Swedish communities, with a personal connection, 1868
For
1994
Pioneer Cross -- Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs
PENDING
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Mr. Chris Abercrombie
(1949 - 2017)
~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president, and his body of work
(His writings are found in the Lindsborg News-Record, the Smoky Valley Historical Association Website and Newsletters.)
To learn more,
go HERE
Mr. Tim Stewart
President of the SVHA continues writing the SVHA Newsletter.
Mr. Chris Abercrombie
(1949 - 2017)
~ Remembering him as the "historian," the SVHA president, and his body of work
(His writings are found in the Lindsborg News-Record, the Smoky Valley Historical Association Website and Newsletters.)
To learn more,
go HERE
Mr. Tim Stewart
President of the SVHA continues writing the SVHA Newsletter.
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Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers
~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
1986
For
The Bethany Home Story
go Here
to
Their "Bethany Lutheran Home"
Since 1907
Rev. Eugene K. Nelson and the Bethany Home Writers
~ Chronicling the "only known written" story on the beginnings of Bethany Home
1986
For
The Bethany Home Story
go Here
to
Their "Bethany Lutheran Home"
Since 1907
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Smoky Valley Historical Association Members
1993
~ Chronicling "Where Did They Live" -- "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
(Revised in 1996 and in 2005)
For this work,
go HERE
Smoky Valley Historical Association Members
1993
~ Chronicling "Where Did They Live" -- "Early Residences of Lindsborg, Kansas"
(Revised in 1996 and in 2005)
For this work,
go HERE
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<> Master's Thesis / Doctor's Dissertation <>
Dr. Emil O. Deere / Dr. Elmer Copley
Two key pieces of work very important to the culture of the Swedish Smoky Valley People that I learn of are that of
original pieces of scholarship
Bethany College's Master's Degree in 1907 was Emil O. Deere's Thesis:
"Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes"
University of Iowa's Doctor's Degree in 1976 was Dr. Elmer Copley's Dissertation:
"Messiah on the Plains, 1882-1976, A History of The Bethany Oratorio Society"
<> Master's Thesis / Doctor's Dissertation <>
Dr. Emil O. Deere / Dr. Elmer Copley
Two key pieces of work very important to the culture of the Swedish Smoky Valley People that I learn of are that of
original pieces of scholarship
Bethany College's Master's Degree in 1907 was Emil O. Deere's Thesis:
"Geology of Study in the Area of the Smoky Valley Buttes"
University of Iowa's Doctor's Degree in 1976 was Dr. Elmer Copley's Dissertation:
"Messiah on the Plains, 1882-1976, A History of The Bethany Oratorio Society"
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A Preservationist Note
go HERE to
Digitalize the Smoky Valley writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories
~ For their generations to come and research accessibility
A Preservationist Note
go HERE to
Digitalize the Smoky Valley writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories
~ For their generations to come and research accessibility
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1917 / 1978
Miss Anna Olsson
Written in 1917
Translated from Swedish to English
by
Martha Windblad
and
edited
by
Elizabeth Jaderborg
in 1978
Published 1978, 121 pages
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1917 / 1978
Miss Anna Olsson
Written in 1917
Translated from Swedish to English
by
Martha Windblad
and
edited
by
Elizabeth Jaderborg
in 1978
Published 1978, 121 pages
Anna was the young daughter of Pastor Olof Olsson, founder of Lindsborg and Bethany Church.
The Swedish En Prýýrieunges Funderingar was translated to English A Child of the Prairie.
The Swedish En Prýýrieunges Funderingar was translated to English A Child of the Prairie.
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"Let Us Remember Them"
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
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"Let Us Remember Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
