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CHAPTER XV.

CHURCHES AND RELIGION. (CONT'D)

From History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915)
by H. F. Andrews

GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.

The Evangelical Lutheran Friedens church of the German Evangelical synod of North America is located in Audubon, having been organized in 1891. Among the active and leading members in pushing the organization and building were Christ Hahn and Conrad Burkhardt. The church edifice, which was erected in 1891, is fifty by twenty-eight feet in size, and cost two thousand five hundred dollars. The present membership is ten. The following here served as pastors; Reverend Strange, Reverend Herman, Reverend Rounthal, Reverend Dollman, Reverend Seck, Reverend Jansen, Reverend Braun and the present pastor. Reverend Gust Tillmanses. Services are held irregularly.

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Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, November, 2018, from History of Audubon Co., Iowa (1915), by H. F. Andrews, page 225.