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A. L. Skoog
1854 - 1934 Person Name: A. L. S. Author of "Han är när" in De Ungas Sångbok Skoog, Andrew L. (Gunnarskog, Sweden, December 17, 1856 [sic]--October 30, 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota). Evangelical Covenant. Son of pietists. Tailor's apprentice at 10. Family emigrated to St. Paul, Minn., when Andrew was 13. Only formal music training was 12 lessons on a melodeon. Organist, choir director, and Sunday School superintendent in Swedish Tabernacle, Minneapolis, 1886-1916. Co-editor of hymnals: Evangelii Basun I & II, 1881-1883; Lilla Basunen, 1890; and Jubelklangen, 1896. Was in editorial committee of Covenant's first three hymnals: Sions Basun, 1908; De Ungas Sångbok, 1914; and Mission Hymns, 1921. Editor and publisher of Gittit 1892-1908, a monthly choir journal with music; a series of ten bound volumes of choir selections; and many hymns.
--J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives
A. L. Skoog
Joseph E. Anderson
1890 - 1954 Translator of "He is near, ever near" in The Hymnal of the Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of America
Joseph E. Anderson
