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Emmy Evald, Founder of the Women's Missionary Society of the Augustana
Synod
 Emmy Carlsson Evald, 1857-1946, was founder and president for 43 years of
the Women's Missionary Society of the Augustana Synod. She was also deeply
involved in many other charitable, social, cultural and religious
institutions and organizations, including Augustana Hospital in Chicago,
the Lutheran Woman's League, Woman’s Home Association of Chicago and
American Sons and Daughters of Sweden. She was president of the Lutheran
Women’s Congress at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and in
1906 she became a charter member of the International Suffrage
Association. For many years she was a member of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Augustana Church. |
