An Encore for Pastor Moberg

Remember our "mighty hunter before the Lord," Pastor Theodore Moberg?[1] CK Melin has found an article that summarizes his life and career up to 1955:



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The Rambler (Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 4, 1955 (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336975/), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu

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Theodore's first wife, Julia, had been born in Hobart in February 1890 to Swedish immigrants Andrew and Christine Peterson (1910 Census). She married Theodore in Lake County in June 1909 (Indiana Marriage Collection). The 1910 Census shows the young couple living in New York. In 1920 they were in Illinois, and by 1930 in Minnesota. Sometime during that decade they moved to Texas.

When Julia died in Texas in 1937, her body was brought back to her hometown for a funeral at the Swedish Methodist Church.[2] She was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.

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[1] He also appears in the two choir photos. (One of these days when I get some time I am going to have to fix a lot of small preview images in my blogs.)
[2] "Hobart," The Hammond Times, 14 Dec. 1937.

Pastor Moberg

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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

From the collection of glass-plate negatives. This fellow is identified only as "Pastor Moberg." I can't find him locally in the census, but I found this item in the Hobart Gazette of November 9, 1906:



That may be our rifle-toting guy. Is he going out hunting in that three-piece suit and stiff collar? — wearing his pince-nez glasses?

An item the "Hobart News" column of the Lake County Times of October 30, 1906, puts him in a different church (and gives him a different first name):

Reverend Berg, who has been the local pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church for the past year, is moving his family to Princeton, Ill., where he will have charge of a parish. Rev. Phedo Moberg, a student at the Evanston university, has taken his place.

… but I'm more inclined to trust the local source for local details.

Doesn't this look like the same place and the same time of day as the second photo (the rabbitless one) of Eric Carlson posted earlier? Maybe they were going out hunting together.