Background
Ingvoldstad, Orlando was born on May 14, 1885 in Decorah, Iowa, United States. Son of Peter Olson and Josephine (Engebretson) Ingvoldstad.
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Orlando Ingvoldstad
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Preparatory education Decorah Institute and St. Olaf Academy, Northfield, Minnesota. Bachelor of Arts, St. Olaf College. Graduate study Independent Theological Seminary, Olso, Norway, and University of Oslo, 1910-1911, United Church Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1911-1913, University of Minnesota, 1913, Biblical Seminary, New York City, 1916-1917.
Bachelor of Divinity, Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, 1918.
Career
Ordained to the ministry United Norwegian Lutheran Church, 1913. Pastor Marshalltown, Iowa, 1913-1916, St. Paul’s Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1918-1923. Founder, 1917, president until 1927, Chicago Lutheran Bible School.
Teacher, Northwestern Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1920-1921. Editor The Bible Student, 1920-1927. Pastor United Lutheran Congregation, Grand Forks, North Dakota, also at University of N.Dak.
(radio pastor over KFJM), 1927-1929. Pastor Wicker Park Lutheran Church, Chicago, 1929-1932. President Chicago Lutheran Bible School, 1932-1936.
Pleasant View Luther College, Ottawa, Illinois, 1932-1937. Pastor Immanuel Church, Chicago, 1933-1937, Faith Church, Chicago, 1937-1941. Founder Long Lake Bible Conference, Ingleside, Illinois, 1919, Lutheran Open Forum, Chicago, 1922.
President Lutheran Ministerial Conference, Chicago, 1923. Chairman Lutheran Relief Committee, Chicago area, 1930-1935. President Long Lake Bible Conference, from 1931.
Vice-president and member Executive Committee and board of Chicago Bible Society. Midwest area representative for Japan International Christian U. Member board Associated Church Charities of Chicago.
Director Lutheran Boys Camp, 1938. Member Christian Unity Committee, 1939. President Chicago Circuit Lutheran Pastoral Conference, 1939.
Vice-chairman Norwegian-American Committee, 1939. Member board directors Chicago Church Federation. Member of the Board of Governors American Scandinavian Alliance.
Illinois state chairman Norwegian Relief, Inc., 1939, executive secretary from 1941. Member Chicago Committee World Council of Churches, 1939. President Chicago Bible Society, 1941-1946.
Speaker for National War Fund, 1944-1945. Special secretary American Bible Society, 1945-1946. Pastor United Lutheran Church, Oak Park, Illinois, 1955, Zion Church, Chicago, from 1955.
Membership
Member board Associated Church Charities of Chicago. Director Lutheran Boys Camp, 1938. Member Christian Unity Committee, 1939.
Member board directors Chicago Church Federation. Member of the Board of Governors American Scandinavian Alliance. Member Chicago Committee World Council of Churches, 1939.
Member American Scandinavian Foundation Norsemen’s League.
Connections
Married Susanne May Osmon, June 18, 1912 (died April 20, 1946).; married second Jessie Helen Cole, June 6, 1947 (deceased March 10, 1962). Children: Orlando, Paul Osmon, John Hill, Stephen Philip.
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American