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Realf Ottesen Brandt
Realf Ottesen Brandt (September 12, 1859 – March 23, 1927) was an American Lutheran minister. Background Realf Brandt was born near the Jefferson Prairie Settlement in Rock County, Wisconsin. His father, Nils Olsen Brandt (1824–1921), who had been born Slidre, Valdres, Norway, served as President of Luther College. His mother, Diderikke Ottesen Brandt (1827–1885), was born in Sande parish on the Oslofjord in Norway. In appreciation of her many contributions to Luther College, the alumni association in 1883 had her portrait painted by Herbjørn Gausta. Realf Brandt was a graduate of Luther College in 1877 and of Luther Seminary at Madison, Wisconsin in 1883. Ministry He was ordained a Lutheran minister on September 2, 1883, by the Reverend U. V. Koren. He served in the Lutheran ministry for 44 years. He served for 17 years in Deuel County, South Dakota and for 27 years at McFarland, Wisconsin. Both Brandt Township in Deuel County and the village of Brandt, South Dakota w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation. The reaction of the government and church authorities to the international spread of his writings, beginning with the '' Ninety-five Theses'', divided Western Christianity. During the Reformation, Lutheranism became the state religion of numerous states of northern Europe, especially in northern Germany, Scandinavia and the then- Livonian Order. Lutheran clergy became civil servants and the Lutheran churches became part of the state. The split between the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics was made public and clear with the 1521 Edict of Worms: the edicts of the Diet condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas, subjecting advocates of Lutheranis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandt, South Dakota
Brandt is a town in Deuel County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 114 at the 2020 census. History Brandt was laid out in 1884. The town was named for the Rev. P.O. Brandt. Geography Brandt is located at (44.664256, -96.623601). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Brandt has been assigned the ZIP code 57218, and the FIPS place code 06940. Brandt sits in the middle east of the county, and is located nine miles from I-29, which passes through the eastern side of South Dakota. Brandt is 76 miles north of Sioux Falls. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 107 people, 43 households, and 24 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 50 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 96.3% White, 0.9% from other races, and 2.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.7% of the population. There were 43 household ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther College (Iowa) Alumni
Luther College is the name of several educational institutions: Australia *Luther College (Victoria), a co-educational independent secondary school of the Lutheran Church of Australia, located in Croydon, Victoria Canada *Luther College (Saskatchewan), in Regina; affiliated with the University of Regina and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada *Martin Luther University College, in Waterloo, Ontario; affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada United States *Luther College (Iowa), in Decorah; a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America *Luther College (Louisiana), in New Orleans; a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America *Luther College, a former college in Wahoo, Nebraska; merged in 1962 with Midland Lutheran College of Fremont, Nebraska *St. Paul-Luther College, (also known as Phalen Luther College) a former tertiary institution in St. Paul, Minnesota; merged into Wartburg College in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From McFarland, Wisconsin
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People From Deuel County, South Dakota
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 Deaths
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1859 Births
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American People Of Norwegian Descent
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19th-century American Lutheran Clergy
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Decorah
Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,587 at the time of the 2020 census. Decorah is located at the intersection of State Highway 9 and U.S. Route 52, and is the largest community in Winneshiek County. History Decorah was the site of a Ho-Chunk village beginning ''circa'' 1840. Several Ho-Chunks had settled along the Upper Iowa River that year when the U.S. Army forced them to remove from Wisconsin. In 1848, the United States removed the Ho-Chunks again to a new reservation in Minnesota, opening their Iowa villages to white settlers. The first European-Americans to settle were the Day family from Tazewell County, Virginia. According to local Congregationalist minister Rev. Ephraim Adams, the Days arrived in June 1849 with the Ho-Chunks' "tents still standing—with the graves of the dead scattered about where now run our streets and stand our dwellings." Judge Eliphalet Price suggested that the Days name t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridgeway, Iowa
Ridgeway is a city in Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States. The population was 275 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography Ridgeway is located at (43.297884, -91.989187). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 315 people, 138 households, and 77 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 147 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 99.7% White and 0.3% from two or more races. There were 138 households, of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.4% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 44.2% were non-families. 34.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota people, Dakota Sioux Native Americans in the United States, Native American tribes, who comprise a large portion of the population with nine Indian reservation, reservations currently in the state and have historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, seventeenth largest by area, but the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 5th least populous, and the List of U.S. states and territories by population density, 5th least densely populated of the List of U.S. states, 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. They are the 39th and 40th states admitted to the union; Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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