Background
Hagstrom, Gustavus Arvid was born on September 8, 1867 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Son of Anders Gustav and Marie Elizabeth (Hernlund) Hagstrom.
Hagstrom, Gustavus Arvid was born on September 8, 1867 in Sundsvall, Sweden. Son of Anders Gustav and Marie Elizabeth (Hernlund) Hagstrom.
Student business school of Minneapolis and extension courses, Des Moines (Iowa) U. Graduate Division School, University of Chicago (formerly Baptist Union Theological Seminary). Doctor of Divinity, Wake Forest (North Carolina) College, 1914.
February 1933);(Mistress L. J. Melrose). Married second, Ebba Brundin, July 26, 1934. Licensed to preach in Minneapolis, 1889.
Pastor, Kenyon, Minnesota, 1890-1891, Newark, Illinois, 1891-1893.
Ordained to ministry Baptist Church, 1892. Sunday School missionary for American Baptist Public Society and Illinois Swedish Baptist Sunday School Union, 1893-1896.
Pastor First Swedish Baptist Church, Chicago, 1896-1907 (largest church in Swedish branch of Baptist denomination in the United States). Missionary secretary, correspondent and financial secretary Swedish Baptist General Conference of America, and superintendent missionary work in the United States and Canada, 1907-1909.
Pastor First Swedish Church, Saint Paul, 1909-1913.
President Bethel Institute and professor Bethel Theological Seminary and Junior College, Saint Paul, 1914-1941, president emeritus and member of faculty, 1941-1943. Pastor Emerald Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago. General and promotional secretary Swedish Baptist General Conference of America, 1930-1933, chairman Future Policy Committee.
President of Minnesota Baptist Convention Editor Young People's Paper for Swedish Baptists, 1895-1896, The Church and Home (Forsamlingen och Hemmet), 1896-1907, Veckobulletinen, 1909-1914.
Department editor Swedish magazine Hemmets Vän, Chicago Life member and president American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Trustee, secretary, treasurer North Western Baptist Hospital.
Trustee Twin City Baptist Union, Swedish Baptist General Conference of America. Member Minnesota History Society (life), Scandinavian American Foundation, Society Advancement of Scandinavian Language and Literature, Swedish History Society, America, Pi Gamma Museum Company-editor Swedish hymn books, Valda Hymner, Triumfs Sanger, Fridsröster.
Author of histories 1st Swedish Baptist Church, Chicago, 1906, Saint Paul, 1913, 47, Minneapolis, 1921, 46, Bethel, Minneapolis, 1946.
60th anniversary history of Emerald Avenue Baptist Church. Also biography of Doctor Frank Peterson. Company-editor: Biography Doctor East. Sandell.
Home: 1281 Folsom Saint, Saint Paul 3.
Member of faculty, 1941-1943. Member and president American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Member Minnesota
Married Caroline Wilhelmina Anderson, June 1, 1892 (deceased. Married second, Ebba Brundin, July 26, 1934.