Mikkel Olsen Block

	Mikkel Olsen Block Trinity Dates: 1909 - 1913 Born: 6 June 1862, Stoubyskov, Stouby, Vejle, Denmark. Parents: Ole Peter Mikkelsen and Christine Maria Samuelsen. Died: 19 December 1931, San Francisco, California. Buried: Olivet Memorial Park, Colma, California. Married: Petra Jorgina Hansen 28 Nov 1892 in Forest City, Iowa. She died in 1944. Ordained: 1892 into the Danish Methodist Church. Received into the UDELC in 1909. Came to America in 1892. Returned to Denmark in 1908 and came back to the US in 1909 as a Lutheran pastor.
Dates and places of service:
1892 - 1908	Pastor with the Norwegian-Danish Methodist Church in America.
1908 - 1909	Visited family and preached in Denmark.
1909 - 1913	Pastor at Borson Danish Ev. Lutheran of Blooming Prairie, MN; Saint Ansgar's Danish Ev. Lutheran of Summit Township, Steele County, MN; and Godthaab (Good Hope) Danish Ev. Lutheran of Geneva, MN.
1914 - 1920	Pastor at Immanuel Danish Ev. Lutheran in Racine, Wisconsin.
1920 - 1928	Pastor at Saint Ansgar Danish Ev. Lutheran in San Francisco.

Here is Rev. Block's memorial on Find-A-Grave.

Footnotes: 1. Installed as pastor at Brorson on 7 November 1909. This is from an article in the 5 November 1909 issue of the Owatonna Daily Journal Chronicle.

2. In the 1870 Denmark census, his father is a prisoner in the Vridsløselille Prison in Herstedvester near Copenhagen. Not sure where Mikkel and his mother were then.

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