Bio of Lindholm, Rev. Sven August (b.1852) Wabasha Co., MN
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Lindholm, Rev. Sven August, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church, Lake
City, was born in the Province of Smaland, Sweden, August 17, 1852. He is
the fourth son of Nels Lindholm, a farmer, who died in 1862. His mother,
Sarah Maria (Peterson) Lindholm, still resides on the old Sweden homestead
with her oldest son. After attending the parish schools (which were of
high grade) till the age of fourteen, he spent a little over two years in
private study under the learned Professor Wellertz in the Parish of
Morlunda. This study was principally devoted to the languages. In 1869 he
emigrated to America, sailing from Oscarshamn, April 26, in the old
steamship Northern Light. The same spring he went to DeKalb, Illinois,
where he remained till the fall of 1870, working on a farm and attending
school; at that date he came to Minnesota and entered the St. Ausgar's
Academy, in Carver county, where he pursued the common English branches
and languages till 1873 when he returned to Illinois and entered the
Augustana College and Theological Seminary from which he was ordained at
the annual convention of the Swedish Lutheran Synod assembled at
Princeton, Illinois, in Jun, 1878, by the synod's president, Rev. E.
Norelius. His first ministerial duties were performed in Southern Dakota,
whence he came to Lake City in June, 1879. He was married June 25, 1878,
in Chicago, to Miss Hilda A. Cedar, a native of Norkoping, Swedin. Their
two children are named August Fridolf J. and Augusta Alfreda.