First Lutheran Women's Organization, 1837
 The earliest American Lutheran women’s
organization was founded in New York in 1837, by a group of pastor’s
wives when they accompanied their husbands to a meeting of Hartwick
Synod clergy. Considering that they should put their own repeated
meeting to good purpose, they formed a missionary society. Their
organizing also centered around the cause of a young man who wished to
seek ordination in order to go to India to work in the mission started
there the previous year by Father John Heyer. Thus, Rev. Walter Gunn was
supported in his schooling and graduated from the Hartwick Seminary and
sent to India in 1844, all due to the support from this New York women’s
organization.
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