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St. John's Lutheran Church, also known as Evangelical St. John's German Lutheran Church, was a complex of historic buildings located north of Kalona, Iowa, United States. This Lutheran congregation was organized in 1870 by German immigrants who settled in southern Johnson County in the 1860s. [ 2 ]
Amish settlement in what is now the Kalona area began in the 1840s, placing the Amish among the first European settlers in the area. The split between Old Order Amish and Amish Mennonites occurred in the 1860s in most places, but it was not until the 1880s that the formal split occurred in Iowa, even though a process of sorting out between conservatives and change-minded Amish had begun a ...
Kossuth County was founded on January 15, 1851. It was named after Lajos Kossuth, Regent-President of Hungary who went into exile to America following the war of independence of Hungary from the Habsburg Dynasty. [3]
Algona was founded in 1854 and was named after the Algonquian word for "Algonquin waters". [4]Between 1869 and 1875 the community was the location of Algona College, an institution sponsored by the Methodist Church.
The followers congregate primarily in home fellowships [3] located throughout the United States, two US territories, and in over 30 countries. [4] It was founded by Victor Paul Wierwille in 1942 as a radio program, subsequently becoming The Chimes Hour Youth Caravan in 1947, [ 5 ] and The Way, Inc., in 1955.
Cresco is a city in Howard County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,888 at the 2020 census , down from 3,905 at the 2000 census . [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Howard County .
Patricia Buckley was born on Staten Island in New York City on May 20, 1933. [1] Raised on Staten Island, she was the second of three children of an Irish American-Sicilian marriage.
Beginning in late mid-1800s, Iowa Wesleyan maintained an active Military Department, in which students organized as a corps of cadets received training under the guidance of United States Army officers. [6] Among Iowa Wesleyan's commandants were Ulysses G. McAlexander (1891 to 1895) and Charles L. Hodges (1895 to 1897) [7]