Swedes:  TheWayTheyWere
The Swedish American Living Legacy of Lindsborg, Kansas and Bethany College
 
 
Home – Swedes: TheWayTheyWere                                                                            1/ Main Section across Page 1/22                                                          
     A very long introduction and summary with many images of old photographs.
      
    NOTE: “Their” refers to Lydia and Emil and their friends and contemporaries.
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

Information on their personal lives, author’s personal links to them and “last-link” to their local history via their estate
 

• ​Lydia's and Emil's Smoky Valley Swedish Immigration Background
  ​~ With a far larger account of why Swedes were leaving Sweden by Mr. Thomas N. 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 due to the "atonement" issue
  ​ ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

                      -Their 1879 Swedish Mission Church formation due to the "atonement" issue
​                        ~An account by Mr. 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"
 

• Their 1909 and 1919 Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicles
  ~ Compiled and written by Bethany Lutheran Church Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin, members and others

 
   
 
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1910 English speaking "Messiah Lutheran Church" formation by former Bethany       Lutheran Church members

 ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 -An account on the 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Alfred  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” (The Old Deere Farm)

         -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 [College] Street

 ~ 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. William Holwerda's Role
  ~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda, and Mr. Lundstrom

 -Their 1964, "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded by Mrs. Jaderborg
   ~ An account by Mr. Abercrombie
 

• 1943, After Lydia, Emil's part, planning Lindsborg's "first" hospital and

 Dr. Holwerda's role  ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom

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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• 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
                           ~ The planner, the movers, the contractual understanding
                               (Deere, Andeen, Lungstrom, Bellah, Shannon, Swenson, Peterson)
             -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, et cetera"
                    ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg
          -Handel's "Messiah" and Bach's "St. Matthew Passion"
            ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
 

• Their 1899 on . . .  Bethany College “Swedish Artists’ Midwest Art Exhibition”

        Details on its beginnings by 3 Swedish artist, Lotavé, Malm & Sandzén, and Sandzén’s three art organizations
                    ~ 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”

          Details on the Fair, President Roosevelt, and the Swedish Pavilion coming to Bethany College
 

 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1895 to 1981 Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations

            ~ 15, 20, 25, 100 years
    -Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896
                   With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
       The First “Bethany Annual,” 1895-96 (i.e. yearbook)
    -Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901
 With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
      The “Forget-Me-Not,” 1902. (The Annual (yearbook) of Bethany College)
                     -The King of Sweden’s Emissary, 1901
     To “knight” Founder and President Dr. Rev. C. A. Swensson
     -Yale University’s Bethany Club
    -Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906
“Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College”
With Rev. Dr. Ernest F. Pihlblad presiding
    -Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981
                  ~“The Centennial of Bethany College”
With Dr. Arvin W. Hahn presiding
 

• Their 1937 Bethany College's Introduction to 1638 New Sweden

     -Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
 

 
  Swedish Immigration Story, 1854                                                                             2/ Main Section across Page 5/22            
 
This is a story of Lydia Sohlberg Deere’s parents, Anders Gustaf Sohlberg and Ingrid Elis Anderson Sohlberg, sailing to America on their honeymoon from Sweden, living in Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas, found in “To America from Sweden 1854.”
 
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• “The Story of the Old Spoon” by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg and Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937

       This 1854 Swedish immigration story was told to Lydia by her mother and father just before his death in 1908 at
       Sohlberg House in Lindsborg.
 

• Who They Left Behind

Showing photographs of Lydia’s parents’ relatives and friends.  Notating the Swedish towns of Bårarp and Jönköping, Kosta, Växjö, Eksjö, and Stockholm.
 

• From Sweden with Love Collections

First discusses a needed place, i.e., a museum, virtual and/or physical, for those “other Swedes” wanting to share their Swedishness with others, followed by the Sohlberg Deere Estate collections.

• The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867

Their story of coming to Lindsborg, Kansas, from Stockholm, Sweden, in November 1955, their moving to San Francisco in 1984 and being restored in 2006, and their final return to Sweden in 2016.
-The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
  -The Swedish Sohlberg Letters

• The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
• The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s) Mostly from Axel Eliassons Konstförlag

Artists Carl Brandt, Oscar Lycke, Jenny Nystrom, and photographer Soderlund
Places: Värmland, Ystad Slatsjöbaden, Ronnebyå, Malmö, Trollhattan Polhems Sluss, Bergs Slussar Gota Kanal, Floda, Västergötland, Mora, Rättvik, Bröllop

• The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines (c1940s)

Including five (5) 1940s HUSMODERN JUL NUMMER

• The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899

Poesie, 1890; Doktor Martin Luther’s Huspostilla, 1899; Koral-Bok, 1819 /1886;
Fosterländska Minnen, 1894; Gustaf II Adolf, c1890

• The Swedish Sohlberg Albums ~ Late 19th and early 20th centuries
• The Swedish Deere Coins, 1801-1929   

              

 
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Starting out with a most enduring eulogy from a student giving the reader an “up close and personal sense” of who Lydia was when she taught at Bethany College; highlighting her most lasting college campus contribution with the Class of 1917 -- “The Gateway to Bethany College:” finishing with her Swedish and Swedish American family background and homes in Minnesota and Kansas.
 
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• Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900 – 1925             

• The Hats

• The Smoky River (The Smoky Hill 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 (Honored by the King of Sweden) 

• Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 (The newlyweds' home and Lydia's artistic touches)

   -Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s (Their Post Cards)
   -Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
     -Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
       -Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930s                                                                                                                      

•  “LYDIA’S WORLD” Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 – 2011 -- REWORKING

​    -"LYDIA'S WORLD" Smoky Valley descendant friends caring for her work
​       ~ Honoring them and remembering them ~ 2005-2011
       -"Lindsborg News-Record" headlines for Lydia's World's (A place marker only.)
          ~ Sundstrom sidewalk gallery exhibits

• 2021 Lindsborg's Lydia Sohlberg Deere

 ~ Discovered by Palm Springs Writer of Lindsborg's Christina Lillian (1888-1976)
 

• 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

         Mrs. Carl Anderson, Mrs. Hagbard Brase, Mrs. Emil O. Deere, Mrs. Thure Jaderborg, Mrs. Carl Lincoln, Mrs. Ray Oberholser
       -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
 
 
 
 
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• Lydia’s Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871 – 1954

• Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén (“Definitions of Art,” papers, exercises, course work.)       

       -Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition (Exhibited January 20 to March 16, 2019)
          -Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through his students’ paintings
     

• Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén’s "Art Exhibitions and Reviews". . . 1893-1940

      Documented from 1893-1940 as found in the1993 Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography by Dr. Emory Lindquist

• 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, 1877 – 1966                                                                       4/ Main Section across Page 8/22              
 
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Colleague and friend to the first seven (7) Swedish American Bethany College presidents and founder and College Museum’s 58 year curator; highlighting Deere’s 67 years at Bethany; his major part in “Rockar Stockar” – translating it from Swedish to English; honored by the love of Bethany College with the Deere Hall name, the “John Deere” surname link, and much more.
 
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• Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Bethany Photography, 1906-1925

                      The story of why she took these photographs.

• Bethany College “Campus from Above”
• Bethany College “The Gateway,” 1917 and “Bethany Campus Association,” 1912

Before they were married, Lydia was Association’s Founder and first President, Deere was first Vice President

• Bethany College “College Street,” today’s “North First Street”
• Bethany College “Campus Life”
• Bethany College “Field Trips”              
• Bethany College’s “Earliest Buildings”

To remember these "Bethany College Buildings," is to remember the "Bethany Family" of their era and their foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
           -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
                  On the fourth floor of Old Main Room 38, the work of taxidermy was carried out by Deere’s classes …
           -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

       (Transcribed: Deere on Swensson Interview)

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857 – 1904

      ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist (Details of who he was and his “schedule!”)
                   -Swensson's “Bethany Lutheran Church” and the “Augustana Lutheran Synod”
                   -Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: “The Bethany Academy of 1882”
     Linked to Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations, Celebrating 15, 20, 25, 100 years
                   -Olsson's Influence, the ​Swenssons,’ the Musicians’ and Singers' “Messiah,” 1882 on …
      Linked to Their Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah” Performances: Performers, Venues, Press,
       Broadcasts, Audiences; and Ling Auditorium
      - Mr. Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr., 1877-1954
         ~ One Lindsborg “Messiah” Commitment from 1901-1954
                     -Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s Linked to Lydia’s Art Professor Sandzén (1871- 1954)
                     -Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

• In Memoriam**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904 (Saddest Lindsborg event! “In their own words!”)

            ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 

• Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943

(As Bethany College President, 1904-1941)
~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

• In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943 (“In their own words” on losing Pihlblad)
• Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904-1941

Scientist Emil O. Deere                                                                                                4/ Main Section across Page 9/22              
 
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• Deere's Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

        With links to Museum story by Dr. Leon Lungstrom

• Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections to 1966
• ​Deere’s Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the “Bethany College Museum”

-“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 piece of Smithsonian inspiration and guidance for the Bethany College Museum.
 

• Deere’s 1940 Presidential Address  to the Kansas Academy of Science

      Crowding and Its Effect on Organisms
 

• 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

       A partial listing of service to Bethany College, Bethany Church, Lindsborg, McPherson, etc.

• Deere’s Education & Degrees

            From his typed resume and from the research of Bethany College Biology Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom:
 

• The Deere Library

~ What remains of 2,000 books (A place marker only.)
 

• Deere's Old Main Office

~ SVHA member Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out
   
 

 
              
 

 
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This is a sampling from 1869 to 2022, creating an extensive summary, on some of the “The Other Swedes” of Lindsborg.  It is the Lindsborg Swedes “legacy listings” (including non-Swedes) honoring them and their works. It is divided into the following categories in BOLD UNDERSCORED.  From many of these categories, there are LINKS to entire sections under “The Other Swedes,” Main Section across. “Other Swedes” includes Swedes other than Emil & Lydia Deere, although they are part of this summary. There also are some Swedes listed that live or have lived in Smoky Valley communities other than Lindsborg yet have strong connections to Lindsborg and Bethany College.
 
 
The Lindsborg Swedes’ Legacy Listings
 

Through Their Freedom of Worship
​Swedish founders of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish founder of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish Galesburg, Illinois, Swedes responsible
    for Smoky Valley settlements other than     Lindsborg
 
Through Their Augustana Lutheran Synod
Background information Bethany Church, Bethany College BC Graduate Missionaries, and Home Mission


Through Their Bethany Church, College, and Home
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church
   - Pastors & Secretary
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Presidents
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Professors and/or Graduates
Swedish Bethany Lutheran Home Pioneers
 
Through Their Bethany College Museum
Swedes Museum Collectors
Swedes Bethany College Museum Scientists
and  Curators
Swedes Responsible for Oversight and
   Maintaining the Bethany College Museum    Collections at the Old Mill Museum
 
Through Their Language and Literature
Swedes Teaching Swedish
Swedes Translating Swedish to English
Swedes’ Books, Publications, Articles
 
Through Their Arts
Swedes in Music
Swedes in Painting
Swedes in Photography
Swedes in Theater
Through Their Architecture
Stone Houses and Barns in the Smoky Valley
Lindsborg’s Early Home Builders
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Culture Heritage Organization Endeavors
​ -Swedes in Folklife research, studies, exhibits, mentoring
  at formerly Lindsborg located Swedish-American
  Folklife Institute of Central Kansas with related
  former Swedish-American Heritage Center 
​ -Swedes in Folk Art Handwork,  Needlework, Sewing
 -Swedes in Folk Art Dance and Music, 1941, 1964, 1971
 -Swedes in Svensk Hyllningsfest Costumes collections
   to restore, preserve
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Cultural Heritage
Individual Endeavors
Swedes in:
 -Folk Art Ljuskröna
 -Folk Art Metal Work
 -Folk Art Painting
 -Folk Art Stencil Design
 -Folk Art Weaving
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography
 -Folk Art Woodcarving
 -Folk Art Concrete Sculptures
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography research/written findings


​ Through Their Swedish Traditions
 Saint Lucia, Jullota, Midsummers, Svensk Hyllningsfest
 
Through Their Swedish Smoky Valley Historical,
Cultural and Christian Organizations  listed
last-link organizations to  Smoky Valley early history and Swedish culture
 
Through Their Swedish Businesses  listed
 last-link Swedish businesses to early Lindsborg Swedish culture
 
Through Their "Other" ​Individual / Business
Community Contributions
 

 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers

This section provides Their Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley Legacy Listings and LINKS to the Writers’
 sections after a “tribute” to the Writers

 

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson (1857-1904)
• Prolific writer in America and Sweden from approximately 1879 to 1904

           (2nd pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, and Founder and 2nd President of Bethany College)
 

• Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
  ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad

 

• Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin (1866-1944)

~  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
(Rev. Bergin was the 3rd Pastor of Bethany Church.)
 

• ​1909, Renamed in 1965 to "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt

1919, Renamed in 1969 to The Smoky Valley in the After Years
and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt
 
These are the Swedish books by Rev. Dr. Bergin, a compilation of his and church member stories
             1909, "Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen"                    1919, "Lindsborg, Efter Femtio Ӓr"
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  -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”
                    (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
           -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”
                   (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
 
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (1884-1965) - A royal one-time Smoky Valley Writer - of 1928
~ "A Swedish Oasis" ~ Recalling his 1927 Bethany College Presser Hall Groundbreaking
    Celebration Visit



 



 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers

 

• Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1908-1992)

~ 4th 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 Illustrations & Chapters
                 -1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college"
                              ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist                     
                        -  PART I  ~ Contents & Illustrations
                        -  PART II ~ Contents & Illustrations
           -1984 "Hagbard Brase, Beloved Music Master"
                        ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist
                        - “Hagbard Brase” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1989 "G.N. Malm:  A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career"
                        With chapters by ​Nils Hasselmo, Vernon Holm, Dorothy Burton Skårdal,
                         and a short translation by Bertil Van Boer
                         ~ The words of Dr. Lindquist
                         - G.N. Malm” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1993 "Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography"
                       "Lindsborg News-Record" News Release ​~ With Introduction and LINKS
                              - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Contents, Photographs, Figures & Color Paintings
​                                     - ~ With "Foreword" by Dr. William H. Gerdts
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Preface and Acknowledgments
                                     -~The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Concluding Observations
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Appendix: Works in Selected Public Collections
Note:  Dr. Lindquist’s words from his anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.
 
 

• Rev. Bror Carlsson of Sweden (1901-1967)
  ~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden and in

    ​Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
                - 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
​  ~ Alf Brorson's condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript,
                      "Jag Sökte  Icke Mitt,"  "I Did Not Seek My Own"
                - "He Gave God Glory" “The Story of Olof Olsson” ~ Contents & Illustrations

 
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• Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] (1918-2016)
  ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early 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
                        - "Why Lindsborg?" ~  Contents & Illustrations
​​             -1990 "Two Reprints" ~  Contents & Illustrations
                  --Selma Lind and Lindsborg, 1980;
                        --Swedish Architecture Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley, 1981
     Note:  Mrs. Jaderborg’s words from her anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.  
 

• ​Mr. A. John Pearson (1938-2023)

        ~ 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  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” & “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

 
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• Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom’s (1915-2000)

         ~ Chronicling Bethany College science and math professors, the curriculum, societies, Museum,
              Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881 to 1990   
             1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
                  ~ Table of Contents
 
        - Dr. Lungstrom’s Chapters ~ Transcriptions of a few of these with LINKS
                 - "Introduction"
                 - "Bethany College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “Bethany College Museum" ​
​                 - "Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “The Old Main Building and Nelson Science Hall"
                 - "Societies on the College Campus Associated with Mathematics and Natural Sciences"
                 - “Bethany College Catalogue Cover”
 
              - Dr. Lungstrom's References ~ Listings from 1893 to 1990 of four publications
           - "Bethany Messenger"~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1893 to 1987
           - "Lindsborg News-Record" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1901 to 1990
          -  "Daisy" and/or "Bethanian" ~ List of Science & Math Faculty Photographs ~ 1908 - 1990
           - "Bethany College Magazine" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1954 to 1990
       
         - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher"  "Master Learner"
 
           - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom (1915-2000)
  ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and early tough years on the Kansas family farm
         
 

• Smoky Valley Historical Association Members

          ~ 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 ~ The LINKS
             -“Pioneer Cross” ~ Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction    
                -"Pioneer Cross" ~ The 1869 Swedish Christmas Ljuskröna Story
              -"Pioneer Cross” ~ The Epilogue              
 

 
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• Mr. Alf Brorson of Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their founder Rev. Olof Olsson through
       the 2001"He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
       -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Contents & Illustrations.
          -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Transcriptions of “Translator's Foreword" Foreword”
             "Acknowledgements" “Postscript" 

• Mr. Alf Brorson
   ~ Promoting Lindsborg in Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to ​Sweden with the "Sweden Letter"
 

• Mr. Chris A. Abercrombie (1949-2017)      

                     ~ Remembering him as historian, writer, researcher, interviewer and collector of local artifacts
            ~ Remembering his legacy
                          -The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren
                            ~The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren on Bethany's challenging times,
                               1960s to early 70s
 

• Mr. Bill Carlson (1930-2018)
  ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867

    (Please NOTE that Part 1 is for "Lindsborg Then" and Part 2 is for "Lindsborg Now.")

• 2011"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" ~ Contents & Illustration               

                       - "Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now"​
                                  Foreword
                                      Preface
​                                      Introduction
                               -Part 1 "Lindsborg Then"  
                                        Chapters:
                                   1 Dreams and Visions
                                   2 Land Agents in Sweden
                                   3 Arriving in New York and On West to Chicago
                                   4 Land Agents in Chicago
                                   5 Settling in the Smoky Valley
                                     -Part 2 "Lindsborg Now"
                                   ​~ Chapter 24: ​Lindsborg Now In 2010
                               -The "Conclusion" Chapters:
                                    Part 1: Conclusion of “Lindsborg Then”
​                                    Part 2: Conclusion

• 2016 "Special Visitor to Lindsborg, April 17, 1976, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden"

 
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• Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
    ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in

    
        -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” Illustrations & Chapters
        -2012 "Miss Alma Luise Olson"
                

• Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy (1928-2017)s

        ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg, Bethany College and Smoky Valley Photography
           of Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal
           -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”
                              ~ Selections from Bror Gustaf Gröndal’s Photography from 1887 to 1945
 

•   Mr. Kenneth Sjogren 1935-2022
    ​~ Saving and serving Bethany College, preserving college and Swedish history culture
        ~ The "Hemslöjd"

                   -2019 "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents"
                               ~ The words of Mr. Sjogren on Drs. Lindquist and Hahn
                               - "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents" ~ Illustrations & Chapters

•   Digitalize the Smoky Valley Writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories
  ~ For their generations to come and for research accessibility

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Listed according to when they first published from their website:
1992 Mark and Mardel Esping;
2013 Chris Abercrombie;
2015 Fran Cochran
2016 Bethany College Honor Students and History Professor Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch
2020 Jim Malm

 
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• ​Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900) ​Värmland Sweden Lutheran Colony Leader
  ~ 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 (1857-1904)

 ~ Remembering “Founder” and "Second President" of Bethany College
     ~ LINKS to accounts by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and much more
 

• Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson  (1859-1939)

 ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the “First Lady” of Lindsborg 
 ~ The "highlights" from Ms. Karen A. Humphrey’s book
 

• Rev. Dr. Edward J. Nelander (1855 - 1915)

~ Remembering "First" President of Bethany College
            ~ Accounts by Dr. Emory Lindquist and Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Dr. Johan August Udden (1859-1932)

 ~ Remembering "First" Bethany College Professor
 ~ Founder of the Museum and Spanish Chain Mail, led UT to over $300,000,000
 ~ An account by Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Mr. Bror Gustaf Gröndal  (1855- 1948)
  ~ 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 GRONDAL PHOTOGRAPHER” ~ 2007, 2009 video account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie with    LINK to Mrs. Eddy’s 2013 Book
 

• Mr. Samuel Thorstenberg (1871-1938) (Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1898 to 1909)

       ~ Remembering him as the “first” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus"
          Conductor
 

•    Dr. Hagbard Brase (1877-1953) ​(Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1915 to 1946)

       ~ Remembering him as the “second” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" Conductor
 

• Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad  (1873-1943)

~ Remembering "Third" President of Bethany College ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
 
 

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• Miss Alma Luise Olson  (1884-1964)

             ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden”
                ~ The 1965 account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
​          -Miss Alma Luise Olson
             ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad
                 ~ The 2012 account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
            

• Artist Dr. Birger Sandzén (1871-1954)

      ~ 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 ~ Drs.  Charles Pelham Greenough, 3rd and Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén

           (1908-1983) and (1909-1993)
            Margaret ​~ Her life of collecting her father's art, promoting it and establishing a gallery in his name 
            Pelham ~ ​His life of embracing the Sandzén family, art, the community and establishing the gallery financially

–       Mr. Gustaf Nathaniel (G. N.) Malm (1869-1928)             ~ 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. Elizabeth Jaderborg 
                -G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company
                  ~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg​ 
                  -G. N. Malm's 1916 Christmas Greetings to His Lindsborg Friends
                    ~ His drawing of the “first” Bethany Lutheran Church and showing “first” printed music in Lindsborg
                         “Join in the Angels’ Choir’” was sung at the firs Early Matin or “Julotta” in the first church Christmas morning 1870.
                                NOTE: --The melody is the same as for “My Country ‘tis of Thee”
 

• William Holwerda, M.D. (1901-1964)

              ~  Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen ~ Accounts by Dr. Leon. Lungstrom    and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
                   -Dr. William Holwerda
                      ~ Remembering their family doctor with Messiah Lutheran Church tributes
                         ~ An account by Dr.  Leon Lungstrom 
​

• Artist Lester Raymer  (1907-1991)

            ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
 

 
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• Dr. & Mrs. Elmer Copley (1925-1991) (1924-2010)

              ~ 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, 1976
                                   -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 (1923-2017)

Eighth Bethany College President
 ~ ​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
          
 

• Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg (1921-2011 & 1933-2017)

              ~ 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

 
 

• Dr. Greta Swenson (1951-1992) and Mr. &  Mrs. Mark Esping

              ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's "first" "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas,"     1986
            -Remembering their Lindsborg’s Folklife Institute's “Swedish-American Heritage Center,” 1996
 

• Mr. Claude Koehn (1929–2013)
  ~ 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

 



 
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    This is a list with links of the following.
 

• ​1882 – 1966 Bethany College Swedish 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. Lindquist
 

• 1901 - 2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden

 
Lindsborg’s 14, Honored by 4 Kings
1. Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1901
  8. Dr. Pelham Greenough III, 1963 

2. Dr. John August Udden, 1911
  9. Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist, 1976

3. Rev. Dr. Ernst Pihlblad, 1920 
10. Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, 1976 

4. Rev. Dr. Julius Lincoln, 1930
11. Dr. Arvin Hahn, 1976

5. Ms. Alma Luise Olson, 1940
12. Dr. Peter Ristuben,1990

6. Artist Sven Birger Sandzén, 1940
13. Dr. Margaret Sandzén Greenough,1991

7. Dr. Hagbard Brase, 1947
14. Mr. Bruce Karstadt, 2014

 

• ​​ 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
 

• 1962 - 2021 "McPherson County Old Mill Museum Leaders" (To Do)

            ~ Detailing ​the Museum's roots to the 1930s ". . . Archeological Society" and more
            -Its beginnings from the 1962 McPherson County Historical Society
​            ~ Formerly the 1930s Historical and Archeological Society
 

• ​1971 - 2020 "American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains" Leaders
  ~ Providing cultural history and heritage programs with significant links to Sweden and Swedish America (All programs eventually stopped sometime in 2020 due to the Covid Pandemic.)

 

• 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’s Emissary
          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
 

• 1991-1992  Esping and Holmquist Bethany College graduates in Washington, D.C.’s National Folklife Festival ~ Representing “Kansas Agriculture and Swedish Culture”  (To Do)

 

• 1998 – 2015, ​"The Pearson Distinguished Professorship of Swedish Studies"Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas

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• 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
     -The Swedish Crown Restaurant" from 1966 to 2019 (A place marker only.)
       ~ Remembering its owners and its Swedish fare
 

• 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”
    -A Historical Count
      ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes
         -"Bethany Campus Walk”
 

• For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today

• 2010 "Sandzén: Ecstasy of Color” Aired by Colorado PBS June 11, 2021

 

• Closing Remarks

• Traveling through SWEDES  ~ ​"The Table of Contents" "The Outline Online"

"Traveling through the histories of Lindsborg and Bethany College"

• Traveling through SWEDES ​~ The Discoveries Along the Way (New)

 

• The 1941 “Smoky Valley Pioneer Cross Memorial”

       ~ ​The account by Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist    
 -The 2009 "Smoky Valley Swedish People's Virtual Memorial"
 
SWEDES’ Update—October 31, 2023
 
Dear Viewers:
 
     For this final draft of SWEDES, revising and changing the locations of many sections within the site continues as does proofing it in its entirety and ensuring that all LINKS are working, yet for a while some may not be working.
     Red font indicates:  What is still being developed or reworked; marking “at risk” cultural history and heritage issues                
*** Indicates its foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
 
Best wishes to all / Bästa hälsningar till alla
Fran Cochran, Research Writer Website Designer of
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere 2011 ~ restoring lost local histories ~reconnecting past to present
       A compiler of historical Swedish American information from Kansas Smoky Valley writers and other sources
SwedishAmericana 2015 ~ restoring, preserving and promoting Swedish American histories & cultures
     A list compiler with LINKS, for Swedish America to Swedish American institutions, organizations and establishments
    Swedes:  TheWayTheyWere
The Swedish American Living Legacy of Lindsborg, Kansas and Bethany College
 
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

Information on their personal lives, author’s personal links to them and “last-link” to their local history via their estate
 

• ​Lydia's and Emil's Smoky Valley Swedish Immigration Background
  ​~ With a far larger account of why Swedes were leaving Sweden by Mr. Thomas N. 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 due to the "atonement" issue
  ​ ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

                      -Their 1879 Swedish Mission Church formation due to the "atonement" issue
​                        ~An account by Mr. 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"
 

• Their 1909 and 1919 Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicles
  ~ Compiled and written by Bethany Lutheran Church Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin, members and others

 
   
 
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1910 English speaking "Messiah Lutheran Church" formation by former Bethany       Lutheran Church members

 ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 -An account on the 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Alfred  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” (The Old Deere Farm)

         -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 [College] Street

 ~ 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. William Holwerda's Role
  ~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda, and Mr. Lundstrom

 -Their 1964, "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded by Mrs. Jaderborg
   ~ An account by Mr. Abercrombie
 

• 1943, After Lydia, Emil's part, planning Lindsborg's "first" hospital and

 Dr. Holwerda's role  ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom

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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• 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
                           ~ The planner, the movers, the contractual understanding
                               (Deere, Andeen, Lungstrom, Bellah, Shannon, Swenson, Peterson)
             -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, et cetera"
                    ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg
          -Handel's "Messiah" and Bach's "St. Matthew Passion"
            ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
 

• Their 1899 on . . .  Bethany College “Swedish Artists’ Midwest Art Exhibition”

        Details on its beginnings by 3 Swedish artist, Lotavé, Malm & Sandzén, and Sandzén’s three art organizations
                    ~ 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”

          Details on the Fair, President Roosevelt, and the Swedish Pavilion coming to Bethany College
 

 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1895 to 1981 Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations

            ~ 15, 20, 25, 100 years
    -Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896
                   With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
       The First “Bethany Annual,” 1895-96 (i.e. yearbook)
    -Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901
 With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
      The “Forget-Me-Not,” 1902. (The Annual (yearbook) of Bethany College)
                     -The King of Sweden’s Emissary, 1901
     To “knight” Founder and President Dr. Rev. C. A. Swensson
     -Yale University’s Bethany Club
    -Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906
“Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College”
With Rev. Dr. Ernest F. Pihlblad presiding
    -Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981
                  ~“The Centennial of Bethany College”
With Dr. Arvin W. Hahn presiding
 

• Their 1937 Bethany College's Introduction to 1638 New Sweden

     -Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
 

 
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This is a story of Lydia Sohlberg Deere’s parents, Anders Gustaf Sohlberg and Ingrid Elis Anderson Sohlberg, sailing to America on their honeymoon from Sweden, living in Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas, found in “To America from Sweden 1854.”
 
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• “The Story of the Old Spoon” by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg and Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937

       This 1854 Swedish immigration story was told to Lydia by her mother and father just before his death in 1908 at
       Sohlberg House in Lindsborg.
 

• Who They Left Behind

Showing photographs of Lydia’s parents’ relatives and friends.  Notating the Swedish towns of Bårarp and Jönköping, Kosta, Växjö, Eksjö, and Stockholm.
 

• From Sweden with Love Collections

First discusses a needed place, i.e., a museum, virtual and/or physical, for those “other Swedes” wanting to share their Swedishness with others, followed by the Sohlberg Deere Estate collections.

• The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867

Their story of coming to Lindsborg, Kansas, from Stockholm, Sweden, in November 1955, their moving to San Francisco in 1984 and being restored in 2006, and their final return to Sweden in 2016.
-The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
  -The Swedish Sohlberg Letters

• The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
• The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s) Mostly from Axel Eliassons Konstförlag

Artists Carl Brandt, Oscar Lycke, Jenny Nystrom, and photographer Soderlund
Places: Värmland, Ystad Slatsjöbaden, Ronnebyå, Malmö, Trollhattan Polhems Sluss, Bergs Slussar Gota Kanal, Floda, Västergötland, Mora, Rättvik, Bröllop

• The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines (c1940s)

Including five (5) 1940s HUSMODERN JUL NUMMER

• The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899

Poesie, 1890; Doktor Martin Luther’s Huspostilla, 1899; Koral-Bok, 1819 /1886;
Fosterländska Minnen, 1894; Gustaf II Adolf, c1890

• The Swedish Sohlberg Albums ~ Late 19th and early 20th centuries
• The Swedish Deere Coins, 1801-1929   

              

 
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Starting out with a most enduring eulogy from a student giving the reader an “up close and personal sense” of who Lydia was when she taught at Bethany College; highlighting her most lasting college campus contribution with the Class of 1917 -- “The Gateway to Bethany College:” finishing with her Swedish and Swedish American family background and homes in Minnesota and Kansas.
 
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• Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900 – 1925             

• The Hats

• The Smoky River (The Smoky Hill 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 (Honored by the King of Sweden) 

• Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 (The newlyweds' home and Lydia's artistic touches)

   -Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s (Their Post Cards)
   -Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
     -Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
       -Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930s                                                                                                                      

•  “LYDIA’S WORLD” Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 – 2011 -- REWORKING

​    -"LYDIA'S WORLD" Smoky Valley descendant friends caring for her work
​       ~ Honoring them and remembering them ~ 2005-2011
       -"Lindsborg News-Record" headlines for Lydia's World's (A place marker only.)
          ~ Sundstrom sidewalk gallery exhibits

• 2021 Lindsborg's Lydia Sohlberg Deere

 ~ Discovered by Palm Springs Writer of Lindsborg's Christina Lillian (1888-1976)
 

• 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

         Mrs. Carl Anderson, Mrs. Hagbard Brase, Mrs. Emil O. Deere, Mrs. Thure Jaderborg, Mrs. Carl Lincoln, Mrs. Ray Oberholser
       -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
 
 
 
 
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• Lydia’s Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871 – 1954

• Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén (“Definitions of Art,” papers, exercises, course work.)       

       -Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition (Exhibited January 20 to March 16, 2019)
          -Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through his students’ paintings
     

• Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén’s "Art Exhibitions and Reviews". . . 1893-1940

      Documented from 1893-1940 as found in the1993 Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography by Dr. Emory Lindquist

• 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

 
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Colleague and friend to the first seven (7) Swedish American Bethany College presidents and founder and College Museum’s 58 year curator; highlighting Deere’s 67 years at Bethany; his major part in “Rockar Stockar” – translating it from Swedish to English; honored by the love of Bethany College with the Deere Hall name, the “John Deere” surname link, and much more.
 
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• Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Bethany Photography, 1906-1925

                      The story of why she took these photographs.

• Bethany College “Campus from Above”
• Bethany College “The Gateway,” 1917 and “Bethany Campus Association,” 1912

Before they were married, Lydia was Association’s Founder and first President, Deere was first Vice President

• Bethany College “College Street,” today’s “North First Street”
• Bethany College “Campus Life”
• Bethany College “Field Trips”              
• Bethany College’s “Earliest Buildings”

To remember these "Bethany College Buildings," is to remember the "Bethany Family" of their era and their foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
           -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
                  On the fourth floor of Old Main Room 38, the work of taxidermy was carried out by Deere’s classes …
           -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

       (Transcribed: Deere on Swensson Interview)

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857 – 1904

      ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist (Details of who he was and his “schedule!”)
                   -Swensson's “Bethany Lutheran Church” and the “Augustana Lutheran Synod”
                   -Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: “The Bethany Academy of 1882”
     Linked to Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations, Celebrating 15, 20, 25, 100 years
                   -Olsson's Influence, the ​Swenssons,’ the Musicians’ and Singers' “Messiah,” 1882 on …
      Linked to Their Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah” Performances: Performers, Venues, Press,
       Broadcasts, Audiences; and Ling Auditorium
      - Mr. Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr., 1877-1954
         ~ One Lindsborg “Messiah” Commitment from 1901-1954
                     -Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s Linked to Lydia’s Art Professor Sandzén (1871- 1954)
                     -Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

• In Memoriam**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904 (Saddest Lindsborg event! “In their own words!”)

            ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 

• Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943

(As Bethany College President, 1904-1941)
~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

• In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943 (“In their own words” on losing Pihlblad)
• Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904-1941

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• Deere's Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

        With links to Museum story by Dr. Leon Lungstrom

• Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections to 1966
• ​Deere’s Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the “Bethany College Museum”

-“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 piece of Smithsonian inspiration and guidance for the Bethany College Museum.
 

• Deere’s 1940 Presidential Address  to the Kansas Academy of Science

      Crowding and Its Effect on Organisms
 

• 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

       A partial listing of service to Bethany College, Bethany Church, Lindsborg, McPherson, etc.

• Deere’s Education & Degrees

            From his typed resume and from the research of Bethany College Biology Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom:
 

• The Deere Library

~ What remains of 2,000 books (A place marker only.)
 

• Deere's Old Main Office

~ SVHA member Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out
   
 

 
              
 

 
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This is a sampling from 1869 to 2022, creating an extensive summary, on some of the “The Other Swedes” of Lindsborg.  It is the Lindsborg Swedes “legacy listings” (including non-Swedes) honoring them and their works. It is divided into the following categories in BOLD UNDERSCORED.  From many of these categories, there are LINKS to entire sections under “The Other Swedes,” Main Section across. “Other Swedes” includes Swedes other than Emil & Lydia Deere, although they are part of this summary. There also are some Swedes listed that live or have lived in Smoky Valley communities other than Lindsborg yet have strong connections to Lindsborg and Bethany College.
 
 
The Lindsborg Swedes’ Legacy Listings
 

Through Their Freedom of Worship
​Swedish founders of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish founder of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish Galesburg, Illinois, Swedes responsible
    for Smoky Valley settlements other than     Lindsborg
 
Through Their Augustana Lutheran Synod
Background information Bethany Church, Bethany College BC Graduate Missionaries, and Home Mission


Through Their Bethany Church, College, and Home
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church
   - Pastors & Secretary
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Presidents
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Professors and/or Graduates
Swedish Bethany Lutheran Home Pioneers
 
Through Their Bethany College Museum
Swedes Museum Collectors
Swedes Bethany College Museum Scientists
and  Curators
Swedes Responsible for Oversight and
   Maintaining the Bethany College Museum    Collections at the Old Mill Museum
 
Through Their Language and Literature
Swedes Teaching Swedish
Swedes Translating Swedish to English
Swedes’ Books, Publications, Articles
 
Through Their Arts
Swedes in Music
Swedes in Painting
Swedes in Photography
Swedes in Theater
Through Their Architecture
Stone Houses and Barns in the Smoky Valley
Lindsborg’s Early Home Builders
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Culture Heritage Organization Endeavors
​ -Swedes in Folklife research, studies, exhibits, mentoring
  at formerly Lindsborg located Swedish-American
  Folklife Institute of Central Kansas with related
  former Swedish-American Heritage Center 
​ -Swedes in Folk Art Handwork,  Needlework, Sewing
 -Swedes in Folk Art Dance and Music, 1941, 1964, 1971
 -Swedes in Svensk Hyllningsfest Costumes collections
   to restore, preserve
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Cultural Heritage
Individual Endeavors
Swedes in:
 -Folk Art Ljuskröna
 -Folk Art Metal Work
 -Folk Art Painting
 -Folk Art Stencil Design
 -Folk Art Weaving
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography
 -Folk Art Woodcarving
 -Folk Art Concrete Sculptures
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography research/written findings


​ Through Their Swedish Traditions
 Saint Lucia, Jullota, Midsummers, Svensk Hyllningsfest
 
Through Their Swedish Smoky Valley Historical,
Cultural and Christian Organizations  listed
last-link organizations to  Smoky Valley early history and Swedish culture
 
Through Their Swedish Businesses  listed
 last-link Swedish businesses to early Lindsborg Swedish culture
 
Through Their "Other" ​Individual / Business
Community Contributions
 

 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers

This section provides Their Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley Legacy Listings and LINKS to the Writers’
 sections after a “tribute” to the Writers

 

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson (1857-1904)
• Prolific writer in America and Sweden from approximately 1879 to 1904

           (2nd pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, and Founder and 2nd President of Bethany College)
 

• Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
  ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad

 

• Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin (1866-1944)

~  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
(Rev. Bergin was the 3rd Pastor of Bethany Church.)
 

• ​1909, Renamed in 1965 to "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt

1919, Renamed in 1969 to The Smoky Valley in the After Years
and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt
 
These are the Swedish books by Rev. Dr. Bergin, a compilation of his and church member stories
             1909, "Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen"                    1919, "Lindsborg, Efter Femtio Ӓr"
           -------
  -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”
                    (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
           -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”
                   (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
 
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (1884-1965) - A royal one-time Smoky Valley Writer - of 1928
~ "A Swedish Oasis" ~ Recalling his 1927 Bethany College Presser Hall Groundbreaking
    Celebration Visit



 



 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers

 

• Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1908-1992)

~ 4th 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 Illustrations & Chapters
                 -1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college"
                              ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist                     
                        -  PART I  ~ Contents & Illustrations
                        -  PART II ~ Contents & Illustrations
           -1984 "Hagbard Brase, Beloved Music Master"
                        ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist
                        - “Hagbard Brase” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1989 "G.N. Malm:  A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career"
                        With chapters by ​Nils Hasselmo, Vernon Holm, Dorothy Burton Skårdal,
                         and a short translation by Bertil Van Boer
                         ~ The words of Dr. Lindquist
                         - G.N. Malm” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1993 "Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography"
                       "Lindsborg News-Record" News Release ​~ With Introduction and LINKS
                              - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Contents, Photographs, Figures & Color Paintings
​                                     - ~ With "Foreword" by Dr. William H. Gerdts
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Preface and Acknowledgments
                                     -~The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Concluding Observations
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Appendix: Works in Selected Public Collections
Note:  Dr. Lindquist’s words from his anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.
 
 

• Rev. Bror Carlsson of Sweden (1901-1967)
  ~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden and in

    ​Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
                - 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
​  ~ Alf Brorson's condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript,
                      "Jag Sökte  Icke Mitt,"  "I Did Not Seek My Own"
                - "He Gave God Glory" “The Story of Olof Olsson” ~ Contents & Illustrations

 
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• Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] (1918-2016)
  ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early 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
                        - "Why Lindsborg?" ~  Contents & Illustrations
​​             -1990 "Two Reprints" ~  Contents & Illustrations
                  --Selma Lind and Lindsborg, 1980;
                        --Swedish Architecture Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley, 1981
     Note:  Mrs. Jaderborg’s words from her anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.  
 

• ​Mr. A. John Pearson (1938-2023)

        ~ 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  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” & “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

 
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• Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom’s (1915-2000)

         ~ Chronicling Bethany College science and math professors, the curriculum, societies, Museum,
              Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881 to 1990   
             1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
                  ~ Table of Contents
 
        - Dr. Lungstrom’s Chapters ~ Transcriptions of a few of these with LINKS
                 - "Introduction"
                 - "Bethany College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “Bethany College Museum" ​
​                 - "Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “The Old Main Building and Nelson Science Hall"
                 - "Societies on the College Campus Associated with Mathematics and Natural Sciences"
                 - “Bethany College Catalogue Cover”
 
              - Dr. Lungstrom's References ~ Listings from 1893 to 1990 of four publications
           - "Bethany Messenger"~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1893 to 1987
           - "Lindsborg News-Record" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1901 to 1990
          -  "Daisy" and/or "Bethanian" ~ List of Science & Math Faculty Photographs ~ 1908 - 1990
           - "Bethany College Magazine" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1954 to 1990
       
         - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher"  "Master Learner"
 
           - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom (1915-2000)
  ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and early tough years on the Kansas family farm
         
 

• Smoky Valley Historical Association Members

          ~ 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 ~ The LINKS
             -“Pioneer Cross” ~ Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction    
                -"Pioneer Cross" ~ The 1869 Swedish Christmas Ljuskröna Story
              -"Pioneer Cross” ~ The Epilogue              
 

 
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• Mr. Alf Brorson of Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their founder Rev. Olof Olsson through
       the 2001"He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
       -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Contents & Illustrations.
          -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Transcriptions of “Translator's Foreword" Foreword”
             "Acknowledgements" “Postscript" 

• Mr. Alf Brorson
   ~ Promoting Lindsborg in Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to ​Sweden with the "Sweden Letter"
 

• Mr. Chris A. Abercrombie (1949-2017)      

                     ~ Remembering him as historian, writer, researcher, interviewer and collector of local artifacts
            ~ Remembering his legacy
                          -The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren
                            ~The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren on Bethany's challenging times,
                               1960s to early 70s
 

• Mr. Bill Carlson (1930-2018)
  ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867

    (Please NOTE that Part 1 is for "Lindsborg Then" and Part 2 is for "Lindsborg Now.")

• 2011"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" ~ Contents & Illustration               

                       - "Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now"​
                                  Foreword
                                      Preface
​                                      Introduction
                               -Part 1 "Lindsborg Then"  
                                        Chapters:
                                   1 Dreams and Visions
                                   2 Land Agents in Sweden
                                   3 Arriving in New York and On West to Chicago
                                   4 Land Agents in Chicago
                                   5 Settling in the Smoky Valley
                                     -Part 2 "Lindsborg Now"
                                   ​~ Chapter 24: ​Lindsborg Now In 2010
                               -The "Conclusion" Chapters:
                                    Part 1: Conclusion of “Lindsborg Then”
​                                    Part 2: Conclusion

• 2016 "Special Visitor to Lindsborg, April 17, 1976, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden"

 
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• Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
    ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in

    
        -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” Illustrations & Chapters
        -2012 "Miss Alma Luise Olson"
                

• Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy (1928-2017)s

        ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg, Bethany College and Smoky Valley Photography
           of Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal
           -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”
                              ~ Selections from Bror Gustaf Gröndal’s Photography from 1887 to 1945
 

•   Mr. Kenneth Sjogren 1935-2022
    ​~ Saving and serving Bethany College, preserving college and Swedish history culture
        ~ The "Hemslöjd"

                   -2019 "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents"
                               ~ The words of Mr. Sjogren on Drs. Lindquist and Hahn
                               - "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents" ~ Illustrations & Chapters

•   Digitalize the Smoky Valley Writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories
  ~ For their generations to come and for research accessibility

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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The ​Smoky Valley Website Designers

Listed according to when they first published from their website:
1992 Mark and Mardel Esping;
2013 Chris Abercrombie;
2015 Fran Cochran
2016 Bethany College Honor Students and History Professor Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch
2020 Jim Malm

 
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• ​Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900) ​Värmland Sweden Lutheran Colony Leader
  ~ 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 (1857-1904)

 ~ Remembering “Founder” and "Second President" of Bethany College
     ~ LINKS to accounts by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and much more
 

• Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson  (1859-1939)

 ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the “First Lady” of Lindsborg 
 ~ The "highlights" from Ms. Karen A. Humphrey’s book
 

• Rev. Dr. Edward J. Nelander (1855 - 1915)

~ Remembering "First" President of Bethany College
            ~ Accounts by Dr. Emory Lindquist and Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Dr. Johan August Udden (1859-1932)

 ~ Remembering "First" Bethany College Professor
 ~ Founder of the Museum and Spanish Chain Mail, led UT to over $300,000,000
 ~ An account by Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Mr. Bror Gustaf Gröndal  (1855- 1948)
  ~ 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 GRONDAL PHOTOGRAPHER” ~ 2007, 2009 video account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie with    LINK to Mrs. Eddy’s 2013 Book
 

• Mr. Samuel Thorstenberg (1871-1938) (Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1898 to 1909)

       ~ Remembering him as the “first” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus"
          Conductor
 

•    Dr. Hagbard Brase (1877-1953) ​(Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1915 to 1946)

       ~ Remembering him as the “second” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" Conductor
 

• Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad  (1873-1943)

~ Remembering "Third" President of Bethany College ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
 
 

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• Miss Alma Luise Olson  (1884-1964)

             ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden”
                ~ The 1965 account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
​          -Miss Alma Luise Olson
             ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad
                 ~ The 2012 account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
            

• Artist Dr. Birger Sandzén (1871-1954)

      ~ 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 ~ Drs.  Charles Pelham Greenough, 3rd and Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén

           (1908-1983) and (1909-1993)
            Margaret ​~ Her life of collecting her father's art, promoting it and establishing a gallery in his name 
            Pelham ~ ​His life of embracing the Sandzén family, art, the community and establishing the gallery financially

–       Mr. Gustaf Nathaniel (G. N.) Malm (1869-1928)             ~ 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. Elizabeth Jaderborg 
                -G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company
                  ~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg​ 
                  -G. N. Malm's 1916 Christmas Greetings to His Lindsborg Friends
                    ~ His drawing of the “first” Bethany Lutheran Church and showing “first” printed music in Lindsborg
                         “Join in the Angels’ Choir’” was sung at the firs Early Matin or “Julotta” in the first church Christmas morning 1870.
                                NOTE: --The melody is the same as for “My Country ‘tis of Thee”
 

• William Holwerda, M.D. (1901-1964)

              ~  Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen ~ Accounts by Dr. Leon. Lungstrom    and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
                   -Dr. William Holwerda
                      ~ Remembering their family doctor with Messiah Lutheran Church tributes
                         ~ An account by Dr.  Leon Lungstrom 
​

• Artist Lester Raymer  (1907-1991)

            ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
 

 
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• Dr. & Mrs. Elmer Copley (1925-1991) (1924-2010)

              ~ 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, 1976
                                   -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 (1923-2017)

Eighth Bethany College President
 ~ ​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
          
 

• Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg (1921-2011 & 1933-2017)

              ~ 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

 
 

• Dr. Greta Swenson (1951-1992) and Mr. &  Mrs. Mark Esping

              ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's "first" "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas,"     1986
            -Remembering their Lindsborg’s Folklife Institute's “Swedish-American Heritage Center,” 1996
 

• Mr. Claude Koehn (1929–2013)
  ~ 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

 



 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden

    This is a list with links of the following.
 

• ​1882 – 1966 Bethany College Swedish 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. Lindquist
 

• 1901 - 2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden

 
Lindsborg’s 14, Honored by 4 Kings
1. Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1901
  8. Dr. Pelham Greenough III, 1963 

2. Dr. John August Udden, 1911
  9. Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist, 1976

3. Rev. Dr. Ernst Pihlblad, 1920 
10. Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, 1976 

4. Rev. Dr. Julius Lincoln, 1930
11. Dr. Arvin Hahn, 1976

5. Ms. Alma Luise Olson, 1940
12. Dr. Peter Ristuben,1990

6. Artist Sven Birger Sandzén, 1940
13. Dr. Margaret Sandzén Greenough,1991

7. Dr. Hagbard Brase, 1947
14. Mr. Bruce Karstadt, 2014

 

• ​​ 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
 

• 1962 - 2021 "McPherson County Old Mill Museum Leaders" (To Do)

            ~ Detailing ​the Museum's roots to the 1930s ". . . Archeological Society" and more
            -Its beginnings from the 1962 McPherson County Historical Society
​            ~ Formerly the 1930s Historical and Archeological Society
 

• ​1971 - 2020 "American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains" Leaders
  ~ Providing cultural history and heritage programs with significant links to Sweden and Swedish America (All programs eventually stopped sometime in 2020 due to the Covid Pandemic.)

 

• 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’s Emissary
          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
 

• 1991-1992  Esping and Holmquist Bethany College graduates in Washington, D.C.’s National Folklife Festival ~ Representing “Kansas Agriculture and Swedish Culture”  (To Do)

 

• 1998 – 2015, ​"The Pearson Distinguished Professorship of Swedish Studies"Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas

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For Fran Cochran
 
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• 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
     -The Swedish Crown Restaurant" from 1966 to 2019 (A place marker only.)
       ~ Remembering its owners and its Swedish fare
 

• 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”
    -A Historical Count
      ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes
         -"Bethany Campus Walk”
 

• For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today

• 2010 "Sandzén: Ecstasy of Color” Aired by Colorado PBS June 11, 2021

 

• Closing Remarks

• Traveling through SWEDES  ~ ​"The Table of Contents" "The Outline Online"

"Traveling through the histories of Lindsborg and Bethany College"

• Traveling through SWEDES ​~ The Discoveries Along the Way (New)

 

• The 1941 “Smoky Valley Pioneer Cross Memorial”

       ~ ​The account by Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist    
 -The 2009 "Smoky Valley Swedish People's Virtual Memorial"
 
SWEDES’ Update—October 31, 2023
 
Dear Viewers:
 
     For this final draft of SWEDES, revising and changing the locations of many sections within the site continues as does proofing it in its entirety and ensuring that all LINKS are working, yet for a while some may not be working.
     Red font indicates:  What is still being developed or reworked; marking “at risk” cultural history and heritage issues                
*** Indicates its foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
 
Best wishes to all / Bästa hälsningar till alla
Fran Cochran, Research Writer Website Designer of
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere 2011 ~ restoring lost local histories ~reconnecting past to present
       A compiler of historical Swedish American information from Kansas Smoky Valley writers and other sources
SwedishAmericana 2015 ~ restoring, preserving and promoting Swedish American histories & cultures
     A list compiler with LINKS, for Swedish America to Swedish American institutions, organizations and establishments
    Swedes:  TheWayTheyWere
The Swedish American Living Legacy of Lindsborg, Kansas and Bethany College
 
 
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    NOTE: “Their” refers to Lydia and Emil and their friends and contemporaries.
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

Information on their personal lives, author’s personal links to them and “last-link” to their local history via their estate
 

• ​Lydia's and Emil's Smoky Valley Swedish Immigration Background
  ​~ With a far larger account of why Swedes were leaving Sweden by Mr. Thomas N. 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 due to the "atonement" issue
  ​ ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

                      -Their 1879 Swedish Mission Church formation due to the "atonement" issue
​                        ~An account by Mr. 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"
 

• Their 1909 and 1919 Swedish Smoky Valley Community Chronicles
  ~ Compiled and written by Bethany Lutheran Church Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin, members and others

 
   
 
 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1910 English speaking "Messiah Lutheran Church" formation by former Bethany       Lutheran Church members

 ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 -An account on the 1910 Messiah Lutheran Church formation from Rev. Dr. Alfred  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” (The Old Deere Farm)

         -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 [College] Street

 ~ 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. William Holwerda's Role
  ~ Accounts by Dr. Lungstrom, Mrs. Jaderborg, Dr. Holwerda, and Mr. Lundstrom

 -Their 1964, "Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers" founded by Mrs. Jaderborg
   ~ An account by Mr. Abercrombie
 

• 1943, After Lydia, Emil's part, planning Lindsborg's "first" hospital and

 Dr. Holwerda's role  ~ An account by Dr. Lungstrom

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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• 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
                           ~ The planner, the movers, the contractual understanding
                               (Deere, Andeen, Lungstrom, Bellah, Shannon, Swenson, Peterson)
             -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, et cetera"
                    ~ An account by Mrs. Jaderborg
          -Handel's "Messiah" and Bach's "St. Matthew Passion"
            ~ Described for viewers unfamiliar with these oratorios
 

• Their 1899 on . . .  Bethany College “Swedish Artists’ Midwest Art Exhibition”

        Details on its beginnings by 3 Swedish artist, Lotavé, Malm & Sandzén, and Sandzén’s three art organizations
                    ~ 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”

          Details on the Fair, President Roosevelt, and the Swedish Pavilion coming to Bethany College
 

 
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• The Bethany Artist and the Bethany Scientist: Lydia and Emil

 

• Their 1895 to 1981 Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations

            ~ 15, 20, 25, 100 years
    -Their Celebrating 15 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1896
                   With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
       The First “Bethany Annual,” 1895-96 (i.e. yearbook)
    -Their Celebrating 20 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1901
 With Rev. Dr. Carl A. Swensson presiding
      The “Forget-Me-Not,” 1902. (The Annual (yearbook) of Bethany College)
                     -The King of Sweden’s Emissary, 1901
     To “knight” Founder and President Dr. Rev. C. A. Swensson
     -Yale University’s Bethany Club
    -Their Celebrating 25 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1906
“Souvenir of Lindsborg and Bethany College”
With Rev. Dr. Ernest F. Pihlblad presiding
    -Their Celebrating 100 Years of Bethany College, 1881-1981
                  ~“The Centennial of Bethany College”
With Dr. Arvin W. Hahn presiding
 

• Their 1937 Bethany College's Introduction to 1638 New Sweden

     -Deere's Introduction to New Sweden
 

 
  Swedish Immigration Story, 1854                                                                             2/ Main Section across Page 5/22            
 
This is a story of Lydia Sohlberg Deere’s parents, Anders Gustaf Sohlberg and Ingrid Elis Anderson Sohlberg, sailing to America on their honeymoon from Sweden, living in Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas, found in “To America from Sweden 1854.”
 
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• “The Story of the Old Spoon” by Ingrid Anderson Sohlberg and Daughter Lydia Sohlberg Deere, 1937

       This 1854 Swedish immigration story was told to Lydia by her mother and father just before his death in 1908 at
       Sohlberg House in Lindsborg.
 

• Who They Left Behind

Showing photographs of Lydia’s parents’ relatives and friends.  Notating the Swedish towns of Bårarp and Jönköping, Kosta, Växjö, Eksjö, and Stockholm.
 

• From Sweden with Love Collections

First discusses a needed place, i.e., a museum, virtual and/or physical, for those “other Swedes” wanting to share their Swedishness with others, followed by the Sohlberg Deere Estate collections.

• The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Portraits, 1867

Their story of coming to Lindsborg, Kansas, from Stockholm, Sweden, in November 1955, their moving to San Francisco in 1984 and being restored in 2006, and their final return to Sweden in 2016.
-The Swedish Sohlberg Kosta Glass
  -The Swedish Sohlberg Letters

• The Swedish Sohlberg Royal Gold Thread Embroidery Sampler (c1890s)
• The Swedish Sohlberg Post Cards (c1890s) Mostly from Axel Eliassons Konstförlag

Artists Carl Brandt, Oscar Lycke, Jenny Nystrom, and photographer Soderlund
Places: Värmland, Ystad Slatsjöbaden, Ronnebyå, Malmö, Trollhattan Polhems Sluss, Bergs Slussar Gota Kanal, Floda, Västergötland, Mora, Rättvik, Bröllop

• The Swedish Sohlberg Magazines (c1940s)

Including five (5) 1940s HUSMODERN JUL NUMMER

• The Swedish Sohlberg Books, 1819/1886 to 1899

Poesie, 1890; Doktor Martin Luther’s Huspostilla, 1899; Koral-Bok, 1819 /1886;
Fosterländska Minnen, 1894; Gustaf II Adolf, c1890

• The Swedish Sohlberg Albums ~ Late 19th and early 20th centuries
• The Swedish Deere Coins, 1801-1929   

              

 
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Starting out with a most enduring eulogy from a student giving the reader an “up close and personal sense” of who Lydia was when she taught at Bethany College; highlighting her most lasting college campus contribution with the Class of 1917 -- “The Gateway to Bethany College:” finishing with her Swedish and Swedish American family background and homes in Minnesota and Kansas.
 
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• Lydia's Lindsborg Photography, 1900 – 1925             

• The Hats

• The Smoky River (The Smoky Hill 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 (Honored by the King of Sweden) 

• Sohlberg House with Emil 1916 to 1920 (The newlyweds' home and Lydia's artistic touches)

   -Lydia's Travels with Deere 1916 - 1930s (Their Post Cards)
   -Lydia's California Photographs for Painting
     -Lydia's Palm Springs Pictorial Magazine, 1938-1939
       -Lydia's California Pressed Wild Flowers, c1930s                                                                                                                      

•  “LYDIA’S WORLD” Photography Exhibitions in Lindsborg, 2005 – 2011 -- REWORKING

​    -"LYDIA'S WORLD" Smoky Valley descendant friends caring for her work
​       ~ Honoring them and remembering them ~ 2005-2011
       -"Lindsborg News-Record" headlines for Lydia's World's (A place marker only.)
          ~ Sundstrom sidewalk gallery exhibits

• 2021 Lindsborg's Lydia Sohlberg Deere

 ~ Discovered by Palm Springs Writer of Lindsborg's Christina Lillian (1888-1976)
 

• 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

         Mrs. Carl Anderson, Mrs. Hagbard Brase, Mrs. Emil O. Deere, Mrs. Thure Jaderborg, Mrs. Carl Lincoln, Mrs. Ray Oberholser
       -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
 
 
 
 
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• Lydia’s Art Professor Sven Birger Sandzén, 1871 – 1954

• Lydia's Assignments for Professor Sandzén (“Definitions of Art,” papers, exercises, course work.)       

       -Students of Sandzén 2019 Exhibition (Exhibited January 20 to March 16, 2019)
          -Bethany Home ~ Celebrating Artist Birger Sandzén through his students’ paintings
     

• Lydia's Art Professor Birger Sandzén’s "Art Exhibitions and Reviews". . . 1893-1940

      Documented from 1893-1940 as found in the1993 Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography by Dr. Emory Lindquist

• 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, 1877 – 1966                                                                       4/ Main Section across Page 8/22              
 
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Colleague and friend to the first seven (7) Swedish American Bethany College presidents and founder and College Museum’s 58 year curator; highlighting Deere’s 67 years at Bethany; his major part in “Rockar Stockar” – translating it from Swedish to English; honored by the love of Bethany College with the Deere Hall name, the “John Deere” surname link, and much more.
 
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• Deere's & Lydia's Bethany -- Lydia's Bethany Photography, 1906-1925

                      The story of why she took these photographs.

• Bethany College “Campus from Above”
• Bethany College “The Gateway,” 1917 and “Bethany Campus Association,” 1912

Before they were married, Lydia was Association’s Founder and first President, Deere was first Vice President

• Bethany College “College Street,” today’s “North First Street”
• Bethany College “Campus Life”
• Bethany College “Field Trips”              
• Bethany College’s “Earliest Buildings”

To remember these "Bethany College Buildings," is to remember the "Bethany Family" of their era and their foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
           -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
                  On the fourth floor of Old Main Room 38, the work of taxidermy was carried out by Deere’s classes …
           -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

       (Transcribed: Deere on Swensson Interview)

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1857 – 1904

      ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist (Details of who he was and his “schedule!”)
                   -Swensson's “Bethany Lutheran Church” and the “Augustana Lutheran Synod”
                   -Swensson's Bethany's Beginnings: “The Bethany Academy of 1882”
     Linked to Their Bethany College Anniversary Celebrations, Celebrating 15, 20, 25, 100 years
                   -Olsson's Influence, the ​Swenssons,’ the Musicians’ and Singers' “Messiah,” 1882 on …
      Linked to Their Bethany College Handel’s “Messiah” Performances: Performers, Venues, Press,
       Broadcasts, Audiences; and Ling Auditorium
      - Mr. Thure Olof Jaderborg, Sr., 1877-1954
         ~ One Lindsborg “Messiah” Commitment from 1901-1954
                     -Swensson's Swedish Artists of the 1890s Linked to Lydia’s Art Professor Sandzén (1871- 1954)
                     -Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

• In Memoriam**Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1904 (Saddest Lindsborg event! “In their own words!”)

            ~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
 

• Deere's Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1873-1943

(As Bethany College President, 1904-1941)
~ An account by Dr. Lindquist

• In Memoriam**Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad, 1943 (“In their own words” on losing Pihlblad)
• Rev. Dr. Pihlblad on Bethany College, 1904-1941

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• Deere's Swensson's “Bethany College Museum,” 1882-1966*

        With links to Museum story by Dr. Leon Lungstrom

• Deere's Swensson's Bethany College Museum Collections to 1966
• ​Deere’s Dr. Leon Lungstrom on the “Bethany College Museum”

-“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 piece of Smithsonian inspiration and guidance for the Bethany College Museum.
 

• Deere’s 1940 Presidential Address  to the Kansas Academy of Science

      Crowding and Its Effect on Organisms
 

• 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

       A partial listing of service to Bethany College, Bethany Church, Lindsborg, McPherson, etc.

• Deere’s Education & Degrees

            From his typed resume and from the research of Bethany College Biology Professor Dr. Leon Lungstrom:
 

• The Deere Library

~ What remains of 2,000 books (A place marker only.)
 

• Deere's Old Main Office

~ SVHA member Mrs. Jaderborg in charge of cleaning it out
   
 

 
              
 

 
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This is a sampling from 1869 to 2022, creating an extensive summary, on some of the “The Other Swedes” of Lindsborg.  It is the Lindsborg Swedes “legacy listings” (including non-Swedes) honoring them and their works. It is divided into the following categories in BOLD UNDERSCORED.  From many of these categories, there are LINKS to entire sections under “The Other Swedes,” Main Section across. “Other Swedes” includes Swedes other than Emil & Lydia Deere, although they are part of this summary. There also are some Swedes listed that live or have lived in Smoky Valley communities other than Lindsborg yet have strong connections to Lindsborg and Bethany College.
 
 
The Lindsborg Swedes’ Legacy Listings
 

Through Their Freedom of Worship
​Swedish founders of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish founder of the Smoky Valley
   Lindsborg settlement
Swedish Galesburg, Illinois, Swedes responsible
    for Smoky Valley settlements other than     Lindsborg
 
Through Their Augustana Lutheran Synod
Background information Bethany Church, Bethany College BC Graduate Missionaries, and Home Mission


Through Their Bethany Church, College, and Home
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church
   - Pastors & Secretary
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Presidents
Swedish Bethany Lutheran College Professors and/or Graduates
Swedish Bethany Lutheran Home Pioneers
 
Through Their Bethany College Museum
Swedes Museum Collectors
Swedes Bethany College Museum Scientists
and  Curators
Swedes Responsible for Oversight and
   Maintaining the Bethany College Museum    Collections at the Old Mill Museum
 
Through Their Language and Literature
Swedes Teaching Swedish
Swedes Translating Swedish to English
Swedes’ Books, Publications, Articles
 
Through Their Arts
Swedes in Music
Swedes in Painting
Swedes in Photography
Swedes in Theater
Through Their Architecture
Stone Houses and Barns in the Smoky Valley
Lindsborg’s Early Home Builders
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Culture Heritage Organization Endeavors
​ -Swedes in Folklife research, studies, exhibits, mentoring
  at formerly Lindsborg located Swedish-American
  Folklife Institute of Central Kansas with related
  former Swedish-American Heritage Center 
​ -Swedes in Folk Art Handwork,  Needlework, Sewing
 -Swedes in Folk Art Dance and Music, 1941, 1964, 1971
 -Swedes in Svensk Hyllningsfest Costumes collections
   to restore, preserve
 
Through Their Swedish Folklife Cultural Heritage
Individual Endeavors
Swedes in:
 -Folk Art Ljuskröna
 -Folk Art Metal Work
 -Folk Art Painting
 -Folk Art Stencil Design
 -Folk Art Weaving
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography
 -Folk Art Woodcarving
 -Folk Art Concrete Sculptures
 -Folk Art Sloyd and Pyrography research/written findings


​ Through Their Swedish Traditions
 Saint Lucia, Jullota, Midsummers, Svensk Hyllningsfest
 
Through Their Swedish Smoky Valley Historical,
Cultural and Christian Organizations  listed
last-link organizations to  Smoky Valley early history and Swedish culture
 
Through Their Swedish Businesses  listed
 last-link Swedish businesses to early Lindsborg Swedish culture
 
Through Their "Other" ​Individual / Business
Community Contributions
 

 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers

This section provides Their Swedish American Kansas Smoky Valley Legacy Listings and LINKS to the Writers’
 sections after a “tribute” to the Writers

 

• Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson (1857-1904)
• Prolific writer in America and Sweden from approximately 1879 to 1904

           (2nd pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church, and Founder and 2nd President of Bethany College)
 

• Bethany Church, Bethany College, Augustana Lutheran Synod Writers
  ​~ Remembering Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson and Rev. Dr. Ernst Frederick Pihlblad

 

• Rev. Dr. Alfred Bergin (1866-1944)

~  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
(Rev. Bergin was the 3rd Pastor of Bethany Church.)
 

• ​1909, Renamed in 1965 to "Pioneer Swedish-American Culture in Central Kansas," and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt

1919, Renamed in 1969 to The Smoky Valley in the After Years
and translated by Mrs. Ruth Bergin Billdt
 
These are the Swedish books by Rev. Dr. Bergin, a compilation of his and church member stories
             1909, "Lindsborg, Bidrag Till Svenskarnas och Den Lutherska Kyrkans Historia i Smoky Hill River Dalen"                    1919, "Lindsborg, Efter Femtio Ӓr"
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  -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”
                    (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
           -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”
                   (Includes all listed articles and photographs.)
 
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden (1884-1965) - A royal one-time Smoky Valley Writer - of 1928
~ "A Swedish Oasis" ~ Recalling his 1927 Bethany College Presser Hall Groundbreaking
    Celebration Visit



 



 
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• Dr. Emory K. Lindquist (1908-1992)

~ 4th 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 Illustrations & Chapters
                 -1975 "Bethany in Kansas, the history of a college"
                              ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist                     
                        -  PART I  ~ Contents & Illustrations
                        -  PART II ~ Contents & Illustrations
           -1984 "Hagbard Brase, Beloved Music Master"
                        ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist
                        - “Hagbard Brase” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1989 "G.N. Malm:  A Swedish Immigrant's Varied Career"
                        With chapters by ​Nils Hasselmo, Vernon Holm, Dorothy Burton Skårdal,
                         and a short translation by Bertil Van Boer
                         ~ The words of Dr. Lindquist
                         - G.N. Malm” ~ Contents & Illustrations
            -1993 "Birger Sandzén, An Illustrated Biography"
                       "Lindsborg News-Record" News Release ​~ With Introduction and LINKS
                              - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Contents, Photographs, Figures & Color Paintings
​                                     - ~ With "Foreword" by Dr. William H. Gerdts
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Preface and Acknowledgments
                                     -~The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Concluding Observations
                                     - ~ The Words of Dr. Lindquist ~ Appendix: Works in Selected Public Collections
Note:  Dr. Lindquist’s words from his anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.
 
 

• Rev. Bror Carlsson of Sweden (1901-1967)
  ~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden and in

    ​Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
                - 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
​  ~ Alf Brorson's condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript,
                      "Jag Sökte  Icke Mitt,"  "I Did Not Seek My Own"
                - "He Gave God Glory" “The Story of Olof Olsson” ~ Contents & Illustrations

 
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• Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg [Selma Lind] (1918-2016)
  ​ ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg of her day, its early histories, its early 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
                        - "Why Lindsborg?" ~  Contents & Illustrations
​​             -1990 "Two Reprints" ~  Contents & Illustrations
                  --Selma Lind and Lindsborg, 1980;
                        --Swedish Architecture Influence in the Kansas Smoky Valley, 1981
     Note:  Mrs. Jaderborg’s words from her anthology are scattered throughout SWEDES and are regarded as accounts.  
 

• ​Mr. A. John Pearson (1938-2023)

        ~ 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  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” & “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

 
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• Dr. Leon G. Lungstrom’s (1915-2000)

         ~ Chronicling Bethany College science and math professors, the curriculum, societies, Museum,
              Old Main and Nelson Science Hall, 1881 to 1990   
             1990 "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas"
                  ~ Table of Contents
 
        - Dr. Lungstrom’s Chapters ~ Transcriptions of a few of these with LINKS
                 - "Introduction"
                 - "Bethany College History Concerning the Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “Bethany College Museum" ​
​                 - "Tabulation of Teachers and Assistants in Natural Sciences and Mathematics"
                 - “The Old Main Building and Nelson Science Hall"
                 - "Societies on the College Campus Associated with Mathematics and Natural Sciences"
                 - “Bethany College Catalogue Cover”
 
              - Dr. Lungstrom's References ~ Listings from 1893 to 1990 of four publications
           - "Bethany Messenger"~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1893 to 1987
           - "Lindsborg News-Record" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1901 to 1990
          -  "Daisy" and/or "Bethanian" ~ List of Science & Math Faculty Photographs ~ 1908 - 1990
           - "Bethany College Magazine" ~ Science and mathematics' headlines ~ 1954 to 1990
       
         - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom ~ "Master Teacher"  "Master Learner"
 
           - Dr. Leon George Lungstrom (1915-2000)
  ~ His Värmland Swedish ancestry and early tough years on the Kansas family farm
         
 

• Smoky Valley Historical Association Members

          ~ 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 ~ The LINKS
             -“Pioneer Cross” ~ Dedication, Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction    
                -"Pioneer Cross" ~ The 1869 Swedish Christmas Ljuskröna Story
              -"Pioneer Cross” ~ The Epilogue              
 

 
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• Mr. Alf Brorson of Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to their founder Rev. Olof Olsson through
       the 2001"He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson"
       -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Contents & Illustrations.
          -"He Gave God Glory" ~ Transcriptions of “Translator's Foreword" Foreword”
             "Acknowledgements" “Postscript" 

• Mr. Alf Brorson
   ~ Promoting Lindsborg in Sweden

 ~ Connecting Lindsborg Swedes to ​Sweden with the "Sweden Letter"
 

• Mr. Chris A. Abercrombie (1949-2017)      

                     ~ Remembering him as historian, writer, researcher, interviewer and collector of local artifacts
            ~ Remembering his legacy
                          -The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren
                            ~The 2006 Abercrombie interview with Ken Sjogren on Bethany's challenging times,
                               1960s to early 70s
 

• Mr. Bill Carlson (1930-2018)
  ~ Chronicling Lindsborg's earliest and later histories, with a personal connection, 1867

    (Please NOTE that Part 1 is for "Lindsborg Then" and Part 2 is for "Lindsborg Now.")

• 2011"Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now" ~ Contents & Illustration               

                       - "Lindsborg Then and Lindsborg Now"​
                                  Foreword
                                      Preface
​                                      Introduction
                               -Part 1 "Lindsborg Then"  
                                        Chapters:
                                   1 Dreams and Visions
                                   2 Land Agents in Sweden
                                   3 Arriving in New York and On West to Chicago
                                   4 Land Agents in Chicago
                                   5 Settling in the Smoky Valley
                                     -Part 2 "Lindsborg Now"
                                   ​~ Chapter 24: ​Lindsborg Now In 2010
                               -The "Conclusion" Chapters:
                                    Part 1: Conclusion of “Lindsborg Then”
​                                    Part 2: Conclusion

• 2016 "Special Visitor to Lindsborg, April 17, 1976, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden"

 
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• Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
    ~ Chronicling highlights of Swedish Augustana Lutheran Lindsborg and Bethany College culture in

    
        -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” Illustrations & Chapters
        -2012 "Miss Alma Luise Olson"
                

• Mrs. Margaret Dahlquist Eddy (1928-2017)s

        ~ Chronicling the Lindsborg, Bethany College and Smoky Valley Photography
           of Swede Bror Gustaf Gröndal
           -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”
                              ~ Selections from Bror Gustaf Gröndal’s Photography from 1887 to 1945
 

•   Mr. Kenneth Sjogren 1935-2022
    ​~ Saving and serving Bethany College, preserving college and Swedish history culture
        ~ The "Hemslöjd"

                   -2019 "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents"
                               ~ The words of Mr. Sjogren on Drs. Lindquist and Hahn
                               - "6 Decades with Twelve Bethany College Presidents" ~ Illustrations & Chapters

•   Digitalize the Smoky Valley Writers' Swedish and Swedish American histories
  ~ For their generations to come and for research accessibility

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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The ​Smoky Valley Website Designers

Listed according to when they first published from their website:
1992 Mark and Mardel Esping;
2013 Chris Abercrombie;
2015 Fran Cochran
2016 Bethany College Honor Students and History Professor Dr. Thomas F. Jorsch
2020 Jim Malm

 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends

        This section provides the list and LINKS to their sections:
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• ​Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900) ​Värmland Sweden Lutheran Colony Leader
  ~ 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 (1857-1904)

 ~ Remembering “Founder” and "Second President" of Bethany College
     ~ LINKS to accounts by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, and much more
 

• Mrs. Alma Christina Lind Swensson  (1859-1939)

 ~ Remembering her as Mrs. Rev. Dr. Swensson, the “First Lady” of Lindsborg 
 ~ The "highlights" from Ms. Karen A. Humphrey’s book
 

• Rev. Dr. Edward J. Nelander (1855 - 1915)

~ Remembering "First" President of Bethany College
            ~ Accounts by Dr. Emory Lindquist and Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Dr. Johan August Udden (1859-1932)

 ~ Remembering "First" Bethany College Professor
 ~ Founder of the Museum and Spanish Chain Mail, led UT to over $300,000,000
 ~ An account by Dr. Leon Lundstrom
 

• Mr. Bror Gustaf Gröndal  (1855- 1948)
  ~ 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 GRONDAL PHOTOGRAPHER” ~ 2007, 2009 video account by Mr. Chris Abercrombie with    LINK to Mrs. Eddy’s 2013 Book
 

• Mr. Samuel Thorstenberg (1871-1938) (Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1898 to 1909)

       ~ Remembering him as the “first” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus"
          Conductor
 

•    Dr. Hagbard Brase (1877-1953) ​(Conductor of the Messiah Chorus from 1915 to 1946)

       ~ Remembering him as the “second” earliest internationally acclaimed Bethany College "Messiah Chorus" Conductor
 

• Rev. Dr. Ernst F. Pihlblad  (1873-1943)

~ Remembering "Third" President of Bethany College ~ An account by Dr. Lindquist
 
 

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• Miss Alma Luise Olson  (1884-1964)

             ~ Remembering her as "First Honored American Woman by Sweden”
                ~ The 1965 account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
​          -Miss Alma Luise Olson
             ~ Remembering her and the extraordinary life she led at home and abroad
                 ~ The 2012 account by Ms. Karen A. Humphrey
            

• Artist Dr. Birger Sandzén (1871-1954)

      ~ 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 ~ Drs.  Charles Pelham Greenough, 3rd and Margaret Elizabeth Sandzén

           (1908-1983) and (1909-1993)
            Margaret ​~ Her life of collecting her father's art, promoting it and establishing a gallery in his name 
            Pelham ~ ​His life of embracing the Sandzén family, art, the community and establishing the gallery financially

–       Mr. Gustaf Nathaniel (G. N.) Malm (1869-1928)             ~ 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. Elizabeth Jaderborg 
                -G. N. Malm and his Lindsborg's national interior decorating company
                  ~ An account by Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg​ 
                  -G. N. Malm's 1916 Christmas Greetings to His Lindsborg Friends
                    ~ His drawing of the “first” Bethany Lutheran Church and showing “first” printed music in Lindsborg
                         “Join in the Angels’ Choir’” was sung at the firs Early Matin or “Julotta” in the first church Christmas morning 1870.
                                NOTE: --The melody is the same as for “My Country ‘tis of Thee”
 

• William Holwerda, M.D. (1901-1964)

              ~  Remembering him as "Doc Bill," a city father and loving citizen ~ Accounts by Dr. Leon. Lungstrom    and Mrs. Elizabeth Jaderborg
                   -Dr. William Holwerda
                      ~ Remembering their family doctor with Messiah Lutheran Church tributes
                         ~ An account by Dr.  Leon Lungstrom 
​

• Artist Lester Raymer  (1907-1991)

            ~ Remembering him as the renowned virtuoso artist and "behind the scenes" community supporter
 

 
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• Dr. & Mrs. Elmer Copley (1925-1991) (1924-2010)

              ~ 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, 1976
                                   -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 (1923-2017)

Eighth Bethany College President
 ~ ​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
          
 

• Mr. & Mrs. Hilding Jaderborg (1921-2011 & 1933-2017)

              ~ 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

 
 

• Dr. Greta Swenson (1951-1992) and Mr. &  Mrs. Mark Esping

              ~ Remembering them for founding Lindsborg's "first" "Swedish-American Folklife Institute of Central Kansas,"     1986
            -Remembering their Lindsborg’s Folklife Institute's “Swedish-American Heritage Center,” 1996
 

• Mr. Claude Koehn (1929–2013)
  ~ 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

 



 
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• Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Groupings, including Swedes from Sweden

    This is a list with links of the following.
 

• ​1882 – 1966 Bethany College Swedish 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. Lindquist
 

• 1901 - 2014 The ​Bethany College Swedish Knights and Ladies ~ Honored by the Kings of Sweden

 
Lindsborg’s 14, Honored by 4 Kings
1. Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson, 1901
  8. Dr. Pelham Greenough III, 1963 

2. Dr. John August Udden, 1911
  9. Dr. Arthur W. Lindquist, 1976

3. Rev. Dr. Ernst Pihlblad, 1920 
10. Dr. Emory K. Lindquist, 1976 

4. Rev. Dr. Julius Lincoln, 1930
11. Dr. Arvin Hahn, 1976

5. Ms. Alma Luise Olson, 1940
12. Dr. Peter Ristuben,1990

6. Artist Sven Birger Sandzén, 1940
13. Dr. Margaret Sandzén Greenough,1991

7. Dr. Hagbard Brase, 1947
14. Mr. Bruce Karstadt, 2014

 

• ​​ 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
 

• 1962 - 2021 "McPherson County Old Mill Museum Leaders" (To Do)

            ~ Detailing ​the Museum's roots to the 1930s ". . . Archeological Society" and more
            -Its beginnings from the 1962 McPherson County Historical Society
​            ~ Formerly the 1930s Historical and Archeological Society
 

• ​1971 - 2020 "American Scandinavian Association of the Great Plains" Leaders
  ~ Providing cultural history and heritage programs with significant links to Sweden and Swedish America (All programs eventually stopped sometime in 2020 due to the Covid Pandemic.)

 

• 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’s Emissary
          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
 

• 1991-1992  Esping and Holmquist Bethany College graduates in Washington, D.C.’s National Folklife Festival ~ Representing “Kansas Agriculture and Swedish Culture”  (To Do)

 

• 1998 – 2015, ​"The Pearson Distinguished Professorship of Swedish Studies"Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas

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For Fran Cochran
 
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• 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
     -The Swedish Crown Restaurant" from 1966 to 2019 (A place marker only.)
       ~ Remembering its owners and its Swedish fare
 

• 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”
    -A Historical Count
      ~The Bethany College Presidents & Swedish Kings Honoring Bethany Swedes
         -"Bethany Campus Walk”
 

• For 1957 Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery CONTACT Today

• 2010 "Sandzén: Ecstasy of Color” Aired by Colorado PBS June 11, 2021

 

• Closing Remarks

• Traveling through SWEDES  ~ ​"The Table of Contents" "The Outline Online"

"Traveling through the histories of Lindsborg and Bethany College"

• Traveling through SWEDES ​~ The Discoveries Along the Way (New)

 

• The 1941 “Smoky Valley Pioneer Cross Memorial”

       ~ ​The account by Mr. Thomas N. Holmquist    
 -The 2009 "Smoky Valley Swedish People's Virtual Memorial"
 
SWEDES’ Update—October 31, 2023
 
Dear Viewers:
 
     For this final draft of SWEDES, revising and changing the locations of many sections within the site continues as does proofing it in its entirety and ensuring that all LINKS are working, yet for a while some may not be working.
     Red font indicates:  What is still being developed or reworked; marking “at risk” cultural history and heritage issues                
*** Indicates its foundational importance to future Bethany College generations.
 
Best wishes to all / Bästa hälsningar till alla
Fran Cochran, Research Writer Website Designer of
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere 2011 ~ restoring lost local histories ~reconnecting past to present
       A compiler of historical Swedish American information from Kansas Smoky Valley writers and other sources
SwedishAmericana 2015 ~ restoring, preserving and promoting Swedish American histories & cultures
     A list compiler with LINKS, for Swedish America to Swedish American institutions, organizations and establishments