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 414 HISTORY OF GOODHUE COUNTY tion the membership was about thirty-five, and the officers were : Deacons, Stephen Lee and Ole J. Lee ; trustees. Ole J. Lee, Hans M. Sande and Knut Sanden. The present pastor is the Rev. C. C. Holter, who has been in charge of the congregation about eleven years. The church has a membership of 350. and the meeting place is a fine church building, erected at a cost of $5,000. The present secretary of the church is 0. S. Haugen, of Wanamingo. A board of trustees and a board of elders, and the other cus- tomary officers, constitute the governing board. Hauges Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, at Kenyon, has a membership of 210. and two churches, one in the village and the other in the country. The two churches are valued at about $8,000. The secretary is A. Anonby, of Kenyon, and the other officers are as usual. These churches, like the others of Hauge's synod in their vicinity, were organized about fifty years ago, and were for many years in charge of Rev. O. Hanson, now being served by Rev. ( '. C. Holter, who has been the pastor about eleven years. The Kenyon congregation, the Stordal church and the Immanuel church unite in a parsonage at Kenyon village valued ai about $5,000. Stordal Evangelical Lutheran Church, at Roscoe Center, is one of the old churches of the county, and has a membership of about 300. The church building cosl $5,000, and the secretary is O. G. Etomo, of Zumbrota. Like the other two congregations now in charge of Reverend Holler, this congregation was for many years served by Rev. O. Hanson. Rev. C. C. Holter, pastor of the congregations at Kenyon, Ros- coe Center and Aspelund, is a clergymaD of acknowledged ability, and took up his present parishes about eleven years ago. He is the editor of the "Budbaeren," a 24-page weekly church paper, which has a wide circulation among the communicants of the llauge synod. Rev. Oesten Hanson was born July 8, 1836, in Norway, and died August 4. 1S!)S. At the age of fifteen he emigrated with his parents to this country, and with them lived for a time in "Wis- consin. In 1856 they moved to this county, and here Reverend Hanson was ordained, in 1861, serving the congregations at Aspe- lund. Kenyon and Roscoe Center until his death. In 1875-76 he was president of Hauge's synod, was its vice-president for about twenty years, was president of the board of regents of the Red AVing Seminary for several years, and was again elected president of the synod in 1887. The Free Church, which has a congregational form of govern- ment, is represented in this county by two churches, one in Wana- mingo, and Hegre in Kenyon, near Skyberg. Wanamingo Congregation was organized July 27, 1869, and