Kristian Anker (October 29, 1848 – November 16, 1928) was a Lutheran minister who served as the first president of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College.Former Minister's Wife Passed Away - Mrs. Kr. Anker (Audubon County Journal (Iowa) Aug. 30, 1923) Anker, Kristian (Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod)
Kristian Anker served as a Lutheran pastor in Elk Horn, Iowa, and Lincoln, Nebraska. Kristian Anker was pastor of St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago from 1881 to 1882.St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church (75th Anniversary booklet, 1950) Founded April 25, 1875 as Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation (Elk Horn Lutheran Church) Elk Horn Højskole Folk School (Dana College) A Biographical Directory of Pastors who served in the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Danish Church) 1871–1962 (by Enok Mortensen
References
External links Anker Society Kristian Anker Portrait
Other sources E. Mortensen, Stories from Our Church (Des Moines, Iowa: 1952) P. C. Nyholm, The Americanization of the Danish Lutheran Churches (Copenhagen: 1963) J. M. Jensen, The United Evangelical Lutheran Church: An Interpretation (Minneapolis, Mn: 1964)
Other reading Foght, Harold Waldstein Rural Denmark and its Schools (MacMillan New York: 1915) Schwieder, Dorothy Iowa: The Middle Land (University Of Iowa Press: 1996) Vig, P. S. Dansk Luthersk Mission i Amerika i Tiden för 1884 (Blair, Nebraska: 1917) Norwegian