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[Norwegian Baptist Seminary at Morgan Park]

History of the Norwegian People in America, 1925

From 1884 to 1913 the Norwegian and Danish Baptists conducted the Dano-Norwegian Baptist Seminary at Morgan Park, Chicago. The school had organic connection with the University of Chicago and its Divinity School, which is Baptist. The first head of the Morgan Park school was a Dane, N. P. Jensen, 1884-1895. He was assisted by a Dane, Dr. Nils S. Lawndahl. In the first 20 years of its existence 170 men were in attendance, many of whom are now in the ministry in Norway, Denmark, America and foreign fields.

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