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AUGUSTANA COLLEGE, Canton, Prof. A. G. Tuve, president. In the year 1869, in the
interest of higher education and for the special purpose of preparing young men
for the ministry, the Norwegian branch of the Lutheran Augustana synod
established at Marshall, Wis., an educational institution maintaining collegiate
and theological courses of study, termed The Augustana college and Theological
seminary.

    Owing to the constant westward trend of emigration, and in hopes of
extending its usefulness, it was decided to remove the school and locate it more
centrally in the west: The offer of twenty acres of land and a school building
by the town of Beloit, Iowa, was accepted, and the Augustana College and
Theological seminary was removed and established in its new location in the
spring of 1881. The school there enjoyed moderate success and prosperity, and it
soon became evident that the accommodations at Beloit were not sufficient to
receive all students that sought entrance at the college. At this juncture the
enterprising city of Canton offered to donate grounds and a spacious building
for the use of the college department if the synod would remove the same to that
city and maintain a college course for a period of at least ten years. The offer
was accepted, and in the fall of 1884, Augustana college began its career in its
present location under the principalship of Prof. M. D. Miller, while the
Theological seminary continued as before with Prof. D. Lysnes at its head. In
the fall of 1889 Prof. Miller resigned his position at the head of the faculty
of the college, and the board of trustees elected Prof. C. S. Salverson as his
successor.

    In June, 1890, an important change took place in the management of these
institutions; the Augustana synod (by whom these schools were maintained), the
conference and the Anti-Missourian brotherhood were united in one body called
the United Norwegian Lutheran church of America. The theological school -at
Beloit was removed to Minneapolis and consolidated with the Augsburg seminary in
that city, and the grounds and buildings which it occupied in Beloit are now
used for the beneficent purpose of an orphans' home. Shortly after the
organization of the United Norwegian Lutheran church of America, Prof. Salverson
resigned his position as president of Augustana college to resume his work in
the ministry, and the present incumbent, Prof. Anthony G. Tuve, was then elected
as his successor.

    The college building is a three-story structure, ninety-six feet long and
sixty feet front, and besides class rooms, chapel and music rooms, has
accommodations for sixty students. The building is so arranged that all portions
have an abundance of light, the rooms are neatly papered, and water is supplied
from the Canton water-works.

    Prof. Anthony G. Tuve, the able and efficient president of Augustana
college, is a native of Winona county, Minn., and was born January 21, 1864. He
was reared to manhood on a farm near Decorah, Iowa, and after completing his
education, for obtaining which he was afforded liberal advantages, he became a
teacher in the public schools in Winneshiek county, Iowa. Such proficiency did
he attain in his labors that in the fall of 1889 he was called to Augustana
college as an instructor in mathematics and rhetoric, and a year later was
elected president of the institution. As principal, he has labored earnestly to
carry out plans which have been proven wise, and to introduce improved methods
of instruction wherever the efficiency of the college could be thus advanced.
All teachers who love their work, and are anxious to excel therein, find in him
a firm friend and wise counselor, while to the pupils he acts the part of a
father, rather than a ruler, being in sympathy with the aspirations and desires
of all students, and anxious to increase their opportunities. Under his able
management the college has increased in attendance and usefulness, and is to-day
in a prosperous and flourishing condition.


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MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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