Niels Peder Nielsen Lang

    Trinity Dates: 1897 - 1902

    Born: January 3, 1868 in Østofte Parish, Maribo County, Denmark.

    Parents: Niels Danielsen and Ane Marie Johansen.

    Died: December 15, 1947 in Burlington, Iowa. Buried in Irving Park Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois

    Married: Kirstine Marion Thomsen in 1897. She died in 1933. (She was a sister to Rev. M. T. Jensen's wife, Marie Thomsen.)

    Ordained: May 30, 1897.

    Came to America in April 1888.

    Dates and places of service:

    1890 - 1895
    		 Student at Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska.

    1895 - 1896
    		 Studied at Chicago Theological Seminary in Maywood, Illinois. He felt that he needed to learn more English, so he attended this English speaking seminary.

    1897 - 1902
    		 Pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Minnesota, and
    Brorson Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church near Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and
    Saint Ansgar Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church near Geneva, Minnesota, and
    Dania Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church at East Prairie, Minnesota, and
    a church near Riceland in Freeborn County, Minnesota.

    1903 - 1907
    		 Pastor at Danish Lutheran Church in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.

    1907 - 1909
    		 Pastor at Kenosha, Wisconsin.

    1909 - 1925
    		 Member of the Trinity Seminary/Dana College faculty in Blair, Nebraska.

    1925 - 1939
    		 Pastor at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois.

    1941 - 1946
    		 Worked with a mission congregation in Detroit, Michigan.

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