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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 >
              • Pastor Olsson ~ Founder of Lindsborg's Bethany Lutheran Church, 1869-1876 ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. 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, 1 of 2 >
        • Their 1879 "Swedish Mission Church" formation by former Bethany Lutheran Church members ​ due to the "atonement" issue ~ An account by Mr. Bill Carlson, 2 of 2
      • 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" ~ From the "Lindsborg News-Record:" September 3, 2020
        • 2022, "Bethany Home to Bethany + Village" ~ A History of Caring ~ A Presentation to the SVHA by Mr. Kris Erikson and Mrs. Andrea Johnson
      • 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, 1 of 2 >
        • An account on the 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Bergin's 1909 ​"Pioneer Swedish-American Culture of Central Kansas," 2 of 2
      • Their 1916-1920 Sohlberg House ​ - Emil's and Lydia's - 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, 1920 >
          • 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 1920-1940 Old Main Apartments of Bethany College - Emil's and Lydia's - Living on campus with the students for 20 years
      • Their 1936 1873 Swedish Homestead - Emil's and Lydia's - 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 1940-1943 Deere Home - Emil's and Lydia's - 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 "​Bethany Academy" founded with its 1882 First Academy Building -- Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings
    • Their 1882-1966 "Bethany College Museum" ~ The Natural History and Pioneer History Collections >
      • LINKS to Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections ​~ 1882 to 1966 >
        • 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 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
        • Coronado Expedition Chain Mail and Bethany College Museum History ~ An account from Dr. Lungstrom's book - by Matt (Kermit) Moline
    • Their 1882 on . . . Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah" Performances >
      • "Messiah" Performers, Venues & Audiences, Press & 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 1902 "I WAS THERE" Coin ~ Bethany College 21st Year Celebration
    • 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 1937 Bethany College's Introduction to 1638 New Sweden >
      • Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
    • Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations ~ "1895 to 1981" ~ 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 ~ To "knight" Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson >
          • The 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"
  • 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 as Bethany College Lane Hart Hall Dean of Women, 1906 - 1913
    • Lydia's "Bethany Campus Association," 1912 ~ Creating "The Gateway to Bethany College" of 1917
    • Lydia Sohlberg Deere's 1927 "Lindsborg Swedish Club's" Handwork and Members >
      • The Lindsborg Swedish Club's "Allers Monster-Tidnings" magazine, 1940 >
        • Lydia's Signatured Black Book of Her Handwritten Sewing Instructions >
          • Nina Sohlberg's Child's Sewing "Little Dots" PICTURE BOOK
    • 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
    • LYDIA'S Art, 1919-1938 >
      • Lydia's Art: The Kansas Collection >
        • The Sketches - Kansas
      • Lydia's Art: The Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, South Dakota Collection >
        • The Sketches ~ Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota
      • Lydia's Art: The California Collection >
        • The Sketches - California, Texas, Arizona
      • Lydia's California Photographs for Painting >
        • Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930 >
          • Lydia's "Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
    • 2005, LYDIA'S Photography Exhibit at Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery >
      • 2007-2010 LYDIA'S Photography Exhibits at the "Sundstrom Windows Sidewalk Gallery" become 'LYDIA'S WORLD"
      • 2011 "LYDIA'S WORLD" exhibition at Studio 113, Lindsborg
      • 2005-2012 ~ Friends of Lydia's World
    • 2021 "Prairie Fire: Lydia Sohlberg Deere Discovers the Desert" by Ann Japenga
  • 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's "Earliest Building Lydia Photographed" >
        • 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
          • Old Main Plates ~ From Dr. Lungstrom's unknown book
        • 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 ~ Not photographed by Lydia
    • 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 >
      • Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College History, 1904 - 1941
      • In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943
    • Deere's Swensson's "Bethany College Museum" 1882-1966 >
      • Article -- 1962 November "Kansas City Star" article noting Dr. Emil O. Deere: "He Watches Museum Expand" for 54 Years"
      • The 1966 Bethany College Museum Collections Move to the Old Mill Museum ~ The planner, the movers, the "contractual stipulation" >
        • Article -- 1966 Autumn "Bethany Magazine" article -- noting Bethany College Museum Collections move ~ Showing Biology Professor Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom with "Old Dobbin Moves" story
        • Article -- 1976 September article by Lindsborg resident Mrs. Betty Hanson -- noting growth of County Museum after receiving College Museum collections
      • ​1990 Bethany College "Museum" Chapter 2 by Dr. Lungstrom ~ Transcribed >
        • Scanned pages from Chapter 2 ​ on​ Bethany College "Museum"
    • Deere's College Students' Smoky Valley "Expeditions" ~ Some of which added to the College's Museum's Natural History Collection
    • Deere's Smithsonian Institution's Souvenir, 1904
    • Deere's College Military Involvement for World War 1 and 2 ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom >
      • 2016, "Lindsborg During World War I: Service, Sacrifice and Dissent" ​~ By Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch, Bethany College history professor, and Honors Students >
        • Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch: Reluctant Nationalism: Lindsborg during the Great War ~ Including Professor Dean Emil O. Deere and his colleagues on Americanism and more
    • Deere's 1940 Presidential Address to the Kansas Academy of Science
    • Deere's 1955 Letter to President Eisenhower re Tuttle Creek ~ To protect the Blue Grass Valley of Kansas where he lived as a child
    • Deere's Service, 1901-1966 ~ The bullet points >
      • Deere's Education & Degrees
    • Deere's Old Main Office ​ ~ SVHA secretary Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out
    • The Deere's Library ~ What remains of 2,000 volumes -- pending
  • "The Other Swedes"
    • ~ Celebrating 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 1928 "royal" one-time Smoky Valley Writer - "A Swedish Oasis" ~ Recalling his 1927 Bethany College Presser Hall Groundbreaking Celebration Visit
      • 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 >
        • 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
      • 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
          • "The Gentle Art of Caring" - Poem by Verna Todd, 92
          • "O Bethany Home" - Poem
      • Dr. Leon George Lungstrom ​~ Chronicling Bethany College natural science and mathematics, the professors and societies, the Museum, Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881-1990 >
        • ​1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" ~ "Table of Contents" >
          • Dr. Lungstrom Chapters ~ Transcriptions of a few of these >
            • "Introduction"
            • "Bethany College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
            • "Bethany College Museum" ​ >
              • "Museum" Chapter 2 ~ Scanned from Dr. Lungstrom's book, pages 23-32
            • "Societies on the College Campus Associated with Mathematics and Natural Sciences"
            • ​"Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
            • "Bethany College Catalogue Covers"
            • "The Old Main Building and Nelson Science Hall"
          • Dr. Lungstrom's References ~ Listings from 1893 to 1990 of four publications >
            • "Lindsborg News-Record" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1901 to 1990
            • "Daisy" and/or "Bethanian" ~ List of Science & Math Faculty Photographs ~ 1908 - 1990
            • "Bethany Messenger" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1893 to 1987
            • "Bethany College Magazine" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1954 to 1990
        • Dr. Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher" "Master Learner" >
          • Dr. Lungstrom ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and tough years on the McPherson County family farm
        • Dr. Lungstrom's "Three Pioneer Scientists of Swedish Descent"
      • 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, since 1868 >
        • 1994 "Pioneer Cross: Swedish Settlements Along the Smoky Hill Bluffs" ~ Contents & Illustrations >
          • "Pioneer Cross:" ~ The ​ Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction
          • "Pioneer Cross:" ~ The 1869 Swedish Christmas Ljuskröna Story ~ From "The Peaceful Mountain" chapter​
          • ​ "Pioneer Cross:" ~ The Epilogue
      • Mr. Alf Brorson ~ Promoting Lindsborg in Sweden - The "Sweden Letter"
      • Mr. Chris A. Abercrombie ~ President of the Smoky Valley Historical Association (2010-2017), creator of its "First" website in 2013; ​ a historian, writer, researcher, taping & filming interviewer, video producer, and collector of local important >
        • ​The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren on 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. Tim Stewart ~ 2016 author of the Smoky Valley Historical Association’s "Vår Historia Newsletter" when Board VP, and as President creator of the 2024 SVHA website
      • Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch & Bethany College Honors Students ~ 2016 "Lindsborg During World War I: Service, Sacrifice and Dissent" >
        • Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch: "Reluctant Nationalism: Lindsborg during the Great War " ~ Including Professor Dean Emil O. Deere and his colleagues on Americanism and more
      • ​ Mr. Kenneth Sjogren ​~ Saving and serving Bethany College; preserving college and Swedish history and culture; writing college history ~ The "Hemslöjd" >
        • ​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
    • ~ Celebrating Them ~ The ​Smoky Valley History Research Writers Website Designers
    • ~ Celebrating 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. Lungstrom
      • 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. Lungstrom
      • Mr. Bror Gustaf Gröndal ~ Remembering him and his photography in the earliest years of Lindsborg and Bethany College, beginning in 1887 >
        • 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" internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" conductor
      • Dr. Hagbard Brase ~ Remembering him as the "second " 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 >
        • Sandzén's introduction to lithography ~ From McPherson, Kansas, Carl J. Smalley, considered greatest art dealer in the world at that time
      • 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 >
        • Artist Dr. Margaret​ Elisabeth "Greta" Sandzén Greenough ​~ Her life of collecting her father's art, promoting it and establishing a gallery in his name ​
        • Dr. Charles Pelham Greenough, 3rd. ~ ​ His life of embracing the Sandzén family, establishing and financing the Gallery and supporting the community
      • Dr. Arthur. W. Lindquist , internationally known entomologist ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom
      • 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
      • Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg ~ Remembering them and their “Swedish Crafts Shop” of 65 years and 50 trips to Sweden
      • 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
      • Artist Lester Raymer ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
      • ​Mr. Max Muller, 1959 Founder of "Broadway RFD" and 1976 Author of "Prairie Carnegie" ~ By Tim Stewart, 2016 creator of the SVHA's "Var Historia Newsletter" publication
      • 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 >
        • The Espings - Mark & Mardel ~ Remembering their Lindsborg's Folklife Institute's "Swedish-American Heritage Center," 1996
      • ​Mr. Claude Koehn ~ Remembering him as restorer and preserver 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
    • ~ Celebrating Them ~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden ~ >
      • 1881 on: ​Some Bethany College Science Professor by Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom Biology Professor, from his 1990 book
      • ​1882-1966 Bethany College Museum Science Professor Curators ​~ Their earliest collectors and the taxidermists >
        • 1962 McPherson County Old Mill Museum leaders receiving and caring for the 1882 to 1966 Bethany College Museum Collections
      • 1894-1962 Bethany College Graduates in Augustana Lutheran Synod World Mission Work ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
      • 1901-2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden
      • ​​1919 "Lindsborg Historical Society' (LHS) ~ Earliest leaders and supporters >
        • 1963 "Smoky Valley Historical Association" (The reformed 1919 Lindsborg Historical Society) ~​ The "Minutes," the leaders and supporters >
          • 1963 SVHA Leaders & Supporters ~ Their restoration/preservation projects
          • ​SVHA VP Barbara Buskirks Takes On the Hogland Dugout Project, 1987 >
            • Mr. Bill Carlson on the Hoglund Family ~ Leaving $600,000 for Bethany Lutheran Church, the Lindsborg Hospital and Bethany Home
            • Mr. Bill Carlson on Other Smoky Valley Dugouts
      • ​1971 "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 >
        • 1977 Swedish Emigrant Institute Documents
      • 1978 Swedish Documentary Film Crew Visits Lindsborg October 2-9
      • 1992, Esping and Holmquist Bethany College alumni in DC's Smithsonian's National Folklife Festival ~ Representing "Kansas Agriculture and Swedish Culture"
      • 1998 - 2015 ~ "​The Pearson Distinguished Professorship of Swedish Studies Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
  • Contacts +
    • For 1869 Lindsborg "CONTACT" Today to Yesteryears >
      • ​Lydia's Lindsborg Photography​, ​1900 - 1925
    • ​For 1881 Bethany College "CONTACT" Today to Yesteryears >
      • Lydia's Bethany College Photography, 1906 - 1925
      • "Bethany Campus Walk”
      • "A Time to Celebrate" 1882 - 1988 ~ "Messiah" performances recognized nationally and internationally
      • A Historical Count of Lindsborg Residents ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes
    • For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today >
      • Sandzén: "Ecstasy of Color" ~ PBS Doucmentary ~ Aired 6/11/21
    • SOME REVIEWING REMARKS >
      • LISTS: RECONIZING "OTHER SWEDES" "OTHER SECTIONS"
    • ​ The 1941 Smoky Valley "Pioneer Cross Memorial" ​~ ​By Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist
    • The 2009 "Smoky Valley Swedish People's Virtual Memorial"
    • TABLE OF CONTENTS ~ Traveling thro SWEDES "The Outline Online"
    • ​February 13, 2025 ~ Lindsborg Proclamation for SWEDES by Mayor Clark Shultz
"The Other Swedes"
​~ Celebrating Them ~
​~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~


Mr. A. John Pearson
 ~ Chronicling the "first" 8 Bethany College presidents, Messiah history and much more                  


A. John Pearson
​1936-2023
A Bethany College PR Professional & Promoter
​A Smoky Valley Researcher, Writer, Editor, Publisher, Promoter
of Lindsborg and Bethany College Swedish American History

​A Historian
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​A Swede, Mr. A. John Pearson was born in 1936 in Illinois whose family worshipped in Lutheran churches belonging to the 1860 Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.  He attended Bethany College, a college of the Synod, for his freshman year of 1955 and transferred to a sister Lutheran college, Gustavus Adolphus College, in St. Peter, Minnesota from where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1959.  Graduate studies found him at Boston University where he received a Master's Degree in Public Relations in 1962.  His Master's Thesis was on "University Presses." ​

He and his wife Carol, of Swedish descent,
 arrived in Lindsborg in 1970, with their two children, Clay and Jay, whose sister Candance was born in Lindsborg.   As a family, they would join Bethany Lutheran Church, a church of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.  Mr. Pearson was hired at Bethany College to first work as the Director of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs in that year, under the Dr. Arvin W. Hahn presidency during a very challenging and, yet, a very rewarding era in college history.  He continued in that position until 1992 when he became the Director of the Archives and Heritage Center and of Sports Information until 2004 when he retired. Yet, in retirement, he continued on at the Bethany Archives as its Volunteer Director until 2006.

Carol was a graduate of Illinois College and continued with part-time studies at Bethany with the class of 1976.  In time she was to serve as 
Bethany College Director of Summer Programs and Special Events and would become a member of the Bethany Auxiliary, serving as past president, past treasurer, and member of the cookbook committee.  She would also become the advertising manager of the Lindsborg News Record for a period of time.  In later years she would hold the treasurer's position at the American-Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains, ASA-GP, co-founded by her husband.

Mr. Pearson's commitment to sports at Bethany, from the very beginning of his career, would, at its end result in many honors.  These were reported in the Fall 2013 Bethany Magazine, on page 2 which stated that he received the Bethany Athletic Association (BBA) Award of Merit which is an award that recognizes active members in the Association who have demonstrated outstanding "service to youth or their careers."  It was also reported that he was the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (KCAC) statistician for four years and that he had been inducted into the Bethany Athletic Hall of Honor in 2004 and received the 2007 Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Sports Information Directors Association.  Continuing, in 2011, he was honored by receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Sports Information Directors Association. 

​It seems that upon the Lindsborg arrival of the Pearsons, they became sponges absorbing Lindsborg's and Bethany College's Swedish history, culture, and traditions.  In his public relations job, he and Mrs. Pearson were to become behind-the-scenes goodwill ambassadors to a myriad of visitors from Sweden and Swedish America, from Swedish  government dignitaries and officials, to Swedish historical institutions concerned with Swedish immigration, to Swedish film makers documenting Swedish American life.  These gatherings provided opportunities for strengthening the Swedish and Swedish American culture of Lindsborg's and Bethany College's ties to Sweden, as did his position as the Vice President of Communications for the American-Scandinavian Association of the Great  Plains, ASA-GP, an organization of which he cofounded, the year after his arrival, in 1971.

Mr. Pearson's writing skills were put to work at Bethany College and in Lindsborg in other behind-the-scenes projects which produced a myriad of local articles specializing in highlighting the Swedish historical and cultural events and traditions from the earliest time which were published in the Lindsborg News-Record, and at the college in the seasonal Bethany College Magazine, of which he was the editor for some time in the 1970s which included that 1976 Spring Issue that covered the 1976 entire visit of Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden to Lindsborg and Bethany College.  These various articles he would continue to write, for certain community events and occasions and needs, now for over 50 years as I witnessed in 2022 with the updating of the Bethany College website in regards to her history.

- TELLING THE STORY OF "THE WAY THEY WERE" -
​Two fine pieces of Mr. Pearson's writings that were published are shared in the next two sections. Go HERE for the 1881 "Bethany College Centennial" history where he chronicles the "first" eight Bethany College presidents describing their presidency including the historical events of their period, and HERE for the "Messiah Centennial" history also including the historical events of this great history from the time the Messiah was first sung in 1882 by these first Swedes.  

In t
hese two selections by Mr. Pearson, you will find the most important foundational Bethany College history, concise, well-researched and accurate, well-written and very interesting with wonderful college archival photograph images, truly telling the story of "the way they were!"
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Even as important as his writing and editorial gifts as a Smoky Valley writer are, his gift to publish the Smoky Valley writers books through one of two of his publishing companies were and are most important to the community.  His first published work of which he was the editor was to be Dr. Emory K. Lindquist's classic Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college.  He published this in 1975 under his founded Bethany College Press, with six more published books to follow.  In 1984 under his Smoky Valley Historical Publications, he first published God's People in a New Land: Memorial Volume of Manuscript by Johan Augustin Pihl, A Swedish Immigrant.  Here, as well, 6 more books were published under this company.

Here are some of the books that Mr. A. John Pearson published under his two companies:
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The Lindsborg Publisher of the "Bethany College Press" 
Sponsored by Bethany College with A. John Pearson as founder and manager: 


The Authors and Their Books

1975   Emory Lindquist
           Bethany in Kansas: The history of a college

              A. John Pearson, editor
           Hardbound

1984   Emory Lindquist
           Hagbard Brase:  Beloved Music Master
           Hardbound  O.P.


1993   Robert G. Lundgren
           A Century of Bethany Football 1893-1993
           Paperback  O.P.


1993   Emmet E. Eklund and Marion Lorimer Eklund
           He Touched the Whole World: The Story of Carl E. Lund-Quist 

           Hardbound

1999   Emmet E. Eklund and Marion Lorimer Eklund
           The Difference He Made: A Biography of Emory K. Lindquist
            Hardbound


 2003   Ylva Eggehorn
            "Manual for the Art of Loving Trees: Poems by Ylva Eggehorn
             published with a second section
              “The Academy of Joy: Pages from the Novel, One of These Hours”  Paperback


2005     Linda M. Lewis, editor,
             
Images Across the Sea: Sweden and America 2025
             Paperback. 


The Lindsborg Publisher of the "Smoky Valley Historical Publications"
​Sponsored by Smoky Valley Historical Association with A. John Pearson as manager
: 

The Authors and Their Books

1984   Vernon C. F. Holm, editor
           God's People in a New Land: Memorial Volume of Manuscript by Johan Augustin Pihl, A Swedish Immigrant                     Paperback


1989   Emory Lindquist
           G. N. Malm: A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career
           A. John Pearson, editor
           Hardbound


1989   Elston L. Flohr
           The Farmers State Bank, Lindsborg, Kansas: The First One Hundred Years, 1886-1986. 1989 
           Paperback  O.P.


1992   Robert E. Segerhammar.  Illustrated by Norman Malm.
              Dugouts and Daisies:  A Novel about Early Lindsborg, Kansas, and the Smoky Valley
           Hardbound 


1993  Robert E. Segerhammar. 
Illustrated by Norman Malm.
          Swedish Mecca of the Plains: A Novel About Lindsborg, Kansas, and
          the Smoky Valley in the Middle Years, 1904-1928
          
Hardbound

1995   Robert E. Segerhammar. Illustrated by Norman Malm.
           Still Pioneers:  A Novel About Lindsborg, Kansas and
           the Smoky Valley in Modern Times, 1929-present

               Hardbound

2001   Bror Carlsson
           He Gave God Glory: The Story of Olof Olsson
           Alf Brorson, revisionist and editor
           Paperback 
- Honored and Remembered -
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​​- A. John Pearson -
In Summary
  •  A Bethany College F.S. Alumnus, 1956
  • A Graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, Bachelor of Arts,1959
  • Received Boston University Master's Degree in Public Relations, 1962
  • Illinois College Director of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs, 1962 - 1970
  • Bethany College Director of Public Relations and Alumni Affairs, 1970 - 1992
  • Co-founder of the American-Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains (ASA-GP) holding the ongoing ASA-GP Vice President for Communications position, 1971
  • Founder of "Smoky Valley Historical Publications," first book, 1975
  • Founder of "Bethany College Press," first book, 1984
  • Bethany College Director of Archives and Heritage Center and Sports Information, 1992 - 2004
  • Inductee into the Bethany Athletic Hall of Honor in 2004
  • Bethany College Volunteer Director of Archives, 2004 - 2006
  • Recipient of the Clarence "Ike" Pearson Award from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)​Sports Information Directors Association, 2007 
  • Recipient of the Bethany College Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Sports Information Directors Association, 2011
  • Recipient of the Bethany Athletic Association (BAA) Award of Merit, 2013​
At some point in Mr. Pearson's Bethany College career, he became the gentleman who Bethany College administration and faculty would go to for historical questions and accurate answers on the College, just as did those of Bethany's past go to Dr. Emil O. Deere, a last-living-link to the beginnings of the College.

To this year of 2022, the College continues to ask those same kind of historical questions of Mr. A. John Pearson.  

For generations to come, Mr. Pearson's writings will become 
indispensable to the education, preservation, and promotion of Swedish Lindsborg and Bethany College history
 and cultural heritage.

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This section has been shared with Mr. A. John Pearson for his approval as of 11-22-22.
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Sources: Courtesy of A. John Pearson, Bethany College Magazines and Website, Lindsborg News-Record, "6 Decades with 12 Bethany College  Presidents"​ by 
Mr. Kenneth Sjogren 2019, online information
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