Olmsted County MINNESOTA Biographies.....Peder J. Lunde July 30 1873 - 
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Mike Oiseth MOISETH@mn.rr.com March 10, 2005, 11:07 am

Author: Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota

REV. PEDER J. LUNDE is a native of Stavanger, Norway, where he was born
July 30, 1873. His father, Jesper J. Lunde, was a successful farmer of
that country and there passed his entire life dying May 26, 1882. The
mother was formerly Rakel Garpestad and also passed her life in Norway
and died April 18, 1908. Their son Peder J., the subject of this sketch,
was reared in that country and was educated in the local schools and
spent his days of vacation in assisting his parents to make a living for
the family. More than ordinary care was spent on his education and he
was finally confirmed in his church. In 1890 he came to this country and
settled in South Dakota, where he attended school for some time and
engaged in farming for some eight or nine years. In the meantime having
made up his mind to become a minister of his church, he attended Grand
Forks College and later on for a number of terms Concordia College,
Moorhead, Minnesota, in order to still further fit himself for his
important calling. He took a general course and spent considerable time
in perfecting himself in English. In the fall of 1903 he was admitted to
the Theological Seminary of The United Norwegian Lutheran church of
America, where he spent three years and received his diploma, June 1,
19o6. He was duly ordained as minister June 17, 1906, and took charge of
an appointment in Williams and McKenzie counties, North Dakota, where he
organized the congregation of West Prairie. In 1909 he was called to
take charge of the [Zion] United Lutheran church at Rock Dell, Olmsted county.
Here he is laboring at present. He is a Republican in politics. On June
26, 1906, he was united in marriage with Miss Hannah Skree in Clay
county, Minnesota. They have one child, Luther Jerome.

Additional Comments:
Joseph Leonard, History of Olmsted County, Minnesota: together with sketches of many
of its pioneers, 
citizens, families, and institutions. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association,
1910.

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