Biography/History:
In 1888, the Evangelical Lutheran Church held its convention in Minneapolis. Rev. Falk Gjertsen of the Norwegian Danish Conference invited several men to his home to discuss the possibility of starting deaconess work in…
Brochures, catalogs, histories (1923, 1933), reports, and clippings of an institution located in Brooklyn, New York. The hospital, started in 1883 under the leadership of Sister Elizabeth Fedde, merged with the Lutheran Hospital of Manhattan in 1956…