Rev. N. A. Stubkjaer Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 481-482

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REV. N. A. STUBKJAER, pastor of the United Norwegian Evangelical church of Lake 
Preston, Kingsbury county, was born in Jutland, Denmark, November 17, 1867.  His 
father, Rev. Anders A. Stubkjaer, is also a native of Jutland, born April 18, 
1824.  He attended school in Jutland until he was about twenty-three years of 
age, and then entered the university of Copenhagen, where he remained until the 
war between Denmark and Prussia, when the government appointed him chaplain 
under Gen. von Bulow, and he continued in the field until the close of the war.  
He then took up the evangelistic work and traveled in Denmark, covering the 
entire country, and he also entered Norway and Sweden for a short season, and at 
present is the superintendent of the mission at Holstebro and is vice-president 
of the home mission of Denmark, and has one hundred and fifty laymen under him, 
whom he has been instrumental in influencing to work for the advancement of the 
gospel among their fellow men.  From a portrait now in the possession of his 
son, one can readily see the evidences of leadership and distinction in his 
features.  Rev. A. A. Stubkjaer has been twice married.  His first wife, who 
bore the maiden name of Miss Jensine Christensen, met him at the altar of Hymen 
about the year 1846.  Mrs. Stubkjaer died in 1864, leaving five children, two 
daughters and three sons, of whom four are now living.  One daughter died in 
Minnesota in the spring of 1888.  To his second wife Mr. Stubkjaer was married 
during the year 1866. Her maiden name was Miss Inger Marrie Nelson, and to her 
union with Mr. Stubkjaer have been born seven children, all of whom are still 
living, and of whom our subject is the second in the order of birth, and the 
only son.  Four of the seven children last mentioned are living at home, and the 
rest are in America.

Our subject was educated in the Latin and graded schools of Viborg, Denmark, and 
came to America in i888, arriving in Chicago September 22.  About two months 
later he went to Stearns county, Minnesota, where he visited friends for a short 
time and taught German in the evening schools at Belgrade.  He also led the 
young people's society in the Congregational church, where the different creeds 
and nationalities would meet and worship according to their different views, and 
Mr. Stubkjaer now speaks of these meetings as one of his most glorious 
experiences, which will always be remembered with pleasure.  In I890 our subject 
entered the Augsburg Theological school of the United Norwegian Lutheran church. 
of America, where he studied for three years and graduated in the spring of 
1893.  His first pastoral charge was at Plano, Illinois. He moved from there to 
Lake Preston, South Dakota, in 1894, where he had charge not only of the village 
church, but also of two of the country churches, all of which are in a 
flourishing condition.

The marriage of our subject to Miss Charlotte Josephine Berg was celebrated at 
Belgrade, Minnesota, October 11, 1893, and the estimable lady who became his 
wife is a daughter of John A. and Elena Berg, and was born in Kandiyohi county, 
Minnesota.  Her father was a sergeant im the Forty-third Wisconsin Volunteer 
Infantry.  To this union have been born two daughters: Ellen Muriel, born August 
2, 1894; and Alma Constance, born January 28, 1896.  In political matters Mr. 
Stubkjaer is independent.