Background
Evald, Emmy was born on September 18, 1857 in Geneva, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Review Erland (Doctor of Divinity) and Eva (Charlotta) Carlson.
Evald, Emmy was born on September 18, 1857 in Geneva, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Review Erland (Doctor of Divinity) and Eva (Charlotta) Carlson.
Educational public schools, girls’ college, Kalmar Sweden, and Rockford College. M. A., Augustana College, Doctor of Humane Letters, Upsala College.
C. E. Hofsten, Doctor of Divinity), Lillian Charlotta (Mistress A. R. Carlson). Engaged in missionary and religious organization work since 1886. Founder, and department editor of Mission Tidings since 1906.
Sent by Women’s Missionary Society on inspection tour of mission stations in India, China and Holy Land, 1926-1927. Founder of homes for women—Mission Home and Immanuel Woman’s Home, Chicago (president of both), Home for Women (New York City) and a home in Vancouver, Canada. Organizer, 1892, of the Woman’s Missionary Society N.A. of Lutheran Augustana Church, which built 75 buildings in different parts of the world.
President Lutheran Woman’s Congress, Chicago Exposition, 1893. Organizer of National Lutheran Woman’s League. President Fredrika Bremer Association.
Managing director Lutheran Home for Women Association, 1930. Member National Committee of the American Swedish History Foundation (Philadelphia), Swedish American Tercentenary Association, American Sons and Daughters of Sweden (vice president), International Suffrage Association.
Member National Committee of the American Swedish History Foundation (Philadelphia), Swedish American Tercentenary Association, American Sons and Daughters of Sweden (vice president), International Suffrage Association.
Married Carl A. Evald (Doctor of Divinity), May 1883 (now deceased). Children: Anna Fedelia (wife of Review.