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Title: Loehe's Michigan Colonies: Then and Now.
Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
Release Date : January 01, 2012
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 244 KB

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In the summer of 1865, Ferdinand Sievers, pastor of the German settlement at Frankenlust (today Bay City), Michigan, determined to take a missionary trip to scattered Lutherans in the region of Big Rapids. Because of the remoteness of the location, he was making the majority of the journey on foot. He brought in tow two ministerial students, Adolph Biewend and Heinrich Partenfelder, as well as his own two sons, Friedrich and Bernhard Sievers. Heading out on July 19, 1865, the first twenty miles to Midland were by wagon on a narrow road through a swamp in the virgin forest. While they hardly met a living soul the entire way, they nonetheless had innumerable travel companions: mosquitoes! Many years later, the youngest son of missionary Sievers recalled: