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The median age in the city was 49.9 years. 21.5% of the residents were under the age of 20; 4.4% were between the ages of 20 and 24; 20.3% were from 25 and 44; 27.0% were from 45 and 64; and 26.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.7% male and 51.3% female.
The median age in the city was 37.9 years. 30.0% of the residents were under the age of 20; 3.0% were between the ages of 20 and 24; 23.6% were from 25 and 44; 27.1% were from 45 and 64; and 16.3% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.
Elk Horn was platted in 1901, and incorporated as a town in 1910. [4] The city took its name from Elk Horn Creek. [5] Newspaper articles from the Atlantic, Iowa newspaper published in 1919 on the death of Mrs. Winters and 1939 on the history of Clay Township In 1864 a colony of Wisconsin people with 3 or 4 covered wagons came to Iowa to establish a town and settled on a knoll two miles ...
The median age in the city was 45.7 years. 21.9% of residents were under the age of 18; 5.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.5% were from 25 to 44; 28.2% were from 45 to 64; and 23% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 45.5% male and 54.5% female.
St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of Scandinavia, a French Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D. . The town is the site of First Lutheran Church of St. Ansgar, a pioneer Norwegian Lutheran Church founded in December 1853 by Claus Lauritz Clausen, who was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Norway to form ...
The median age in the city was 41.4 years. 24.7% of the residents were under the age of 20; 5.0% were between the ages of 20 and 24; 22.9% were from 25 and 44; 26.6% were from 45 and 64; and 20.8% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.6% male and 49.4% female.
It is called "Dutch" from Deutsch, i.e., "German", as it was the southern center of German-American settlement in St. Louis in the early 19th century. [2] It was the original site of Concordia Seminary (before it relocated to Clayton, Missouri ), Concordia Publishing House , Lutheran Hospital, and other German community organizations.
The author Bill Bryson mentions Swedesburg in his 2006 memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.Bryson recalls seeing Swedesburg from a distance whilst visiting his grandparents in nearby Winfield in the 1950s, and reflects how the heritages of settlements such as Swedesburg were affected by the policies of Governor William L. Harding, which resulted in the decline of European ...