Translator: Andrew T. Frykman
Born: August 8, 1875, Värmland, Sweden.
Died: November 7, 1943, Rockford, Illinois.
Buried: Scandinavian Cemetery, Rockford, Illinois.
Son of hymnist Nils Frykman, Andrew was educated at North Park College and Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, and Montana Wesleyan University. He served as president of Northwestern College, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1901-04), then at Mission Covenant churches in Superior, Wisconsin; Jamestown, New York; Wausa, Nebraska; and Rockford, Illinois. In Rockford, he founded the first radio station in the city. In the last years of his career, Frykman served as the Covenant director of evangelism, retiring in 1943.
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Go to person page >Author: Nils Frykman
Born: October 20, 1842, Sunne, Värmland, Sweden (birth name: Nils Larsson).
Died: March 30, 1911, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Nils took the name Frykman after the region where he grew up, Fryksdalen. In 1868, he graduated from teachers’ college in Karlstad, and went on to teach in Grums, Norrköping, and Sunne. He preached in the church in Sunne, and around that time began to write hymns. Eventually, his texts were printed in the magazine Sanningsvittnet. However, Frykman’s work was not sanctioned by Sweden’s state church, and almost led to the loss of his job as a teacher. Eventually he did resign his position over a controversy about his children’s baptism by an independent prea…
Go to person page >Translator: Signe L. Bennett
Signe L. Bennett was born on November 22, 1900, probably in Illinois. She was educated at the North Park Academy, North Park College, and the Moody Bible Institute. She worked as a civil servant, and was a member of the North Park Covenant Church in Chicago, Illinois. She died on April 1996.
[Source: Erickson, John Irving. Sing It Again! Chicago, Illinois: Covenant Press, 1985.]
NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/n/bennett_sl.htm
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