Background
Thorbjorn N. Mohn was born in Saude, Skien municipality in Telemark county, Norway.
academic administrator Clergy member minister
Thorbjorn N. Mohn was born in Saude, Skien municipality in Telemark county, Norway.
He graduated in 1870 from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis in 1873.
He was the youngest of eight children of Nils Torbjornson Mohn and Ragnild Johnson Rui. He emigrated from Norway with his family in 1852 at age nine. The family first settled in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
Eventually they moved to rural Dodge County, Minnesota in 1860.
He was ordained into the Norwegian Synod in 1873. In May, 1873, Mohn received a call from the congregation of Saint Paul"s Norwegian Evangelical Church in Chicago from Herman Amberg Preus, President of the Norwegian Synod.
Saint Olaf opened on January 8, 1875, as an academy or preparatory school in an old public school building that the Northfield community had outgrown. The Anti-Missourian Brotherhood began to function as an entity within the Norwegian Synod in 1886.
About one third of its congregations left the Synod at its annual meeting in Stoughton, Wisconsin in 1887.
Mohn was among the leading advocates of the anti-Missourian position together with Bernt Julius Muus and John North. Kildahl as well as Luther Seminary Professor Marcus Olaus Bøckmann. Mohn worked for the college"s re-adoption by the Church, which occurred in 1899.
Member) and academic administrator (college president)</span></b></td></tr><tr><td class="label_burgverd11px"><b>Born:</b> in Norway, July 15, 1844</td></tr><tr><td><hr style="sepBorder"/></td></tr><td>emigrated to the United States, 1853.
Married Anna Elizabeth Ringstad, July 15, 1875.