Background
Engstrom, Sigfrid Emanuel was born on February 15, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Andrew Malcolm and Emily Christine (Chindblom) Engstrom.
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Sigfrid Emanuel Engstrom
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Bachelor of Arts, Angustana College Rock Island, Illinois, 1930. Bachelor of Divinity Augustana Theological Seminary, 1932. Doctor Divinity, Capitol University, 1948.
Career
Shipping clerk, Bike-Web Manufacturing Company, Chicago. Illinois, 1921-1923; trafic manager, All-American Radio Corporation, Chicago, 1923-1926. Ordained to ministry of Lutheran Church, 1932.
Pastor, Gethsemane Church, Saint Louis.
Missouri, 1932-1935; Faith Church, Griswold, Iowa, 1935-1936. Bethany Church, Des Moines, Iowa, 1936-1937.
Field secretary and secretary of stewardship Iowa Lutheran Conference, Augustana Church 1935-1939. President Iowa Conference Luther League, 1932-1934.
President Augustana Synod National Luther League, 1934-1936.
President Lutheran Home Mission Council of America, 1939-1942. President Division of American Missions of National Lutheran Council, 1942-1946, secretary, 1946-1949. Special commissioner to Finland, Lutheran World Federation, 1948, delegate Hanover, Germany, 1952.
Executive director Board American Missions of Augustana Lutheran Church.
Director Lutheran World Action for Augustana Lutheran Church. President American Lutheran Conference, 1953-1954.
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Membership
Member Tau Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Delta.
Connections
Married Ida Christine Stenstrom, June 25, 1932. Children: Nancy Emily, Robert Alan, John David.
