Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Nuquist, Gustaf 1871 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

REV. GUSTAF NYQUIST.

    The Rev. Gustaf Nyquist, rector of the Swedish Lutheran (Salem) church in
Lincoln township, this county, and one of the most active and influential men in
that part of the county, is a native of the kingdom of Sweden, but has been a
resident of this country since he was twenty-four years of age and of Kansas
since completing his theological studies in 1900. He was born in Dalsland, near
the line separating Sweden from Norway, December 17, 1871, son of Alexander and
Katharina (Larson) Nyquist, also natives of Sweden, who spent all their lives in
their native land. Alexander Nyquist was a merchant tailor. To him and his wife
eight children were born, four of whom are still living, those besides the
subject of this sketch being Alfred, who came to the United States in 1893 and
at Chicago worked at his trade as a tailor until 1899, when he returned to his
native land and is now continuing the business established there by his father;
Mrs. Laura Anderson, of Norway, and Mrs. Inga Kullgren, also of Norway.

    The Rev. Gustaf Nyquist deceived an excellent foundation for his ministerial
vocation in the schools of his native land and in 1896 came to the United States
and shortly afterward entered the divinity school of the University of Chicago,
from which he was graduated in 1900 and in that same year was ordained to the
ministry, being shortly afterward given charge of a church at Topeka, this
state. He later was transferred to Omaha and also for some years, m addition to
his ministerial labors, was engaged in educational work. In 1911 Mr. Nyquist
took a special course in the Augustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island,
Illinois, and was given charge of the Swedish Lutheran Salem church in Lincoln
township, this county, and has since been engaged in the ministry, having done
much in that time to enlarge the scope of the local congregation's influence
along all lines; the church having expanded both materially and spiritually
under his effective ministration. Salem church is well established and good work
is reported in all departments of the congregation's activities in the
prosperous community thus covered. Both as a leader in the general community
life of that neighborhood and as a faithful minister of the gospel, Mr. Nyquist
has given his most earnest and devoted attention to the various needs of the
community along religious, social and cultural lines and has done a good work,
his efforts being appreciated greatly throughout that entire section.

    On December 30, 1903, the Rev. Gustaf Nyquist was united in marriage to
Louise Lofgren, who was born in Riley county, this state, May 5, 1883, daughter
of Charles and Alida (Sellberg) Lofgren, natives of Sweden, who settled in this
state years ago, and to this union five children have been born, namely: Joy,
born on July 7, 1907; Harold, April 18, 1909; Lowell, June 30, 1911; Noble,
January 13, 1913; Earl, January 24, 1915, and Floyd, April 11, 1917.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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