Axel was the pastor in Ironwood at the Swedish Mission Covenant Church (Later Bethany Covenant) on Marquette St. He served from the 1930's until 1946. He came from Yxnerum, Sweden in May of 1902. His father died when he was 4, and he worked child labor in a paper mill to help support his family growing up. His brother Carl came to America in 1901, and Axel came over in 1902 via Boston from Goteburg, Sweden. He and his brother finished school in Titusville, PA. On a trip to Moline, IL, Axel was influenced by the Mission Friends and later converted to the Mission Covenant Church after being raised Swedish Lutheran. He went on to college at North Park College on Foster Ave. in Chicago and graduated in 1905. Axel's cousin was Rev. Johann Albert Eklund, the Bishop of the Lutheran church of Sweden from 1907-1945.
He survived the San Francisco earthquake on April 18th, 1906, after nearly being killed in the Valencia Street hotel boarding house that liquefied into the ground. He was sleeping on the 5th floor and walked out onto the street to safety after the building pancaked. Everyone in the building was killed below him. That experience seeing death in the streets and great destruction influenced him into going to Seminary at North Park in Chicago; he graduated from seminary in 1910 at North Park. He served a few churches before marrying.
He met his future wife at the Covenant church in Jamestown, NY when he was student pastor there. He married Frida Maria Blomqvist in 1912, after he had taken a call at the church in Rochester, NY. They had five children- Roland, Margaret, Paul, Milton, & Bernice. His churches were all in the Mission Covenant Church, and he served in Jamestown, NY; Titusville & Warren, PA; Chicago; DeKalb, IL; Ironwood, MI; Red Wing, MN; and Upsala, MN. His last church was in Missouri, after he had remarried in 1951. In Nye, Wisconsin, he purchased a property and dismantled a barn and recycled it into a cabin for the family on Big Lake, where they enjoyed many years of fun and relaxation.
On trips home to Sweden, Axel preached in Riddarsholm Swedish Lutheran Church in Stockholm and in the Swedish Lutheran church in Linskoping. Back home, he preached in the Lutheran church he was baptized & confirmed in Yxnerum, Sweden. The whole town came out to hear him, and many cried afterwards because they were so proud of him. Hi mother Hilma, (1856-1938) is buried there in the church yard. In his Covenant churches, Axel was big on liturgy and hymns and the same format he followed from his upbringing in the Lutheran church. (The picture above is him in Seminary, and Luther's picture is right above him.) Axel had the pastoral job in Ironwood from 1935-1946. He is buried there alongside his brother Carl and his wife Frida. Axel officiated at the services of his children's weddings, his brother's funeral, grandkid's baptisms, and his wife's funeral in 1949. Axel served on church commissions, religious boards, and the North Park College board as tresurer.
Axel's pastoring to people and love of God rubbed off his grandson. His grandson, James Gerhardt Sucha, (b. 1964 from his daughter Bernice Eklund Sucha) is a editor of a Lutheran hymnal entitled "The Service Hymnal, A Lutheran Homecoming." which was produced in 2001.
You can find this hymnal on the www.servicehymnal.com site.
He survived the San Francisco earthquake on April 18th, 1906, after nearly being killed in the Valencia Street hotel boarding house that liquefied into the ground. He was sleeping on the 5th floor and walked out onto the street to safety after the building pancaked. Everyone in the building was killed below him. That experience seeing death in the streets and great destruction influenced him into going to Seminary at North Park in Chicago; he graduated from seminary in 1910 at North Park. He served a few churches before marrying.
He met his future wife at the Covenant church in Jamestown, NY when he was student pastor there. He married Frida Maria Blomqvist in 1912, after he had taken a call at the church in Rochester, NY. They had five children- Roland, Margaret, Paul, Milton, & Bernice. His churches were all in the Mission Covenant Church, and he served in Jamestown, NY; Titusville & Warren, PA; Chicago; DeKalb, IL; Ironwood, MI; Red Wing, MN; and Upsala, MN. His last church was in Missouri, after he had remarried in 1951. In Nye, Wisconsin, he purchased a property and dismantled a barn and recycled it into a cabin for the family on Big Lake, where they enjoyed many years of fun and relaxation.
On trips home to Sweden, Axel preached in Riddarsholm Swedish Lutheran Church in Stockholm and in the Swedish Lutheran church in Linskoping. Back home, he preached in the Lutheran church he was baptized & confirmed in Yxnerum, Sweden. The whole town came out to hear him, and many cried afterwards because they were so proud of him. Hi mother Hilma, (1856-1938) is buried there in the church yard. In his Covenant churches, Axel was big on liturgy and hymns and the same format he followed from his upbringing in the Lutheran church. (The picture above is him in Seminary, and Luther's picture is right above him.) Axel had the pastoral job in Ironwood from 1935-1946. He is buried there alongside his brother Carl and his wife Frida. Axel officiated at the services of his children's weddings, his brother's funeral, grandkid's baptisms, and his wife's funeral in 1949. Axel served on church commissions, religious boards, and the North Park College board as tresurer.
Axel's pastoring to people and love of God rubbed off his grandson. His grandson, James Gerhardt Sucha, (b. 1964 from his daughter Bernice Eklund Sucha) is a editor of a Lutheran hymnal entitled "The Service Hymnal, A Lutheran Homecoming." which was produced in 2001.
You can find this hymnal on the www.servicehymnal.com site.
Axel was the pastor in Ironwood at the Swedish Mission Covenant Church (Later Bethany Covenant) on Marquette St. He served from the 1930's until 1946. He came from Yxnerum, Sweden in May of 1902. His father died when he was 4, and he worked child labor in a paper mill to help support his family growing up. His brother Carl came to America in 1901, and Axel came over in 1902 via Boston from Goteburg, Sweden. He and his brother finished school in Titusville, PA. On a trip to Moline, IL, Axel was influenced by the Mission Friends and later converted to the Mission Covenant Church after being raised Swedish Lutheran. He went on to college at North Park College on Foster Ave. in Chicago and graduated in 1905. Axel's cousin was Rev. Johann Albert Eklund, the Bishop of the Lutheran church of Sweden from 1907-1945.
He survived the San Francisco earthquake on April 18th, 1906, after nearly being killed in the Valencia Street hotel boarding house that liquefied into the ground. He was sleeping on the 5th floor and walked out onto the street to safety after the building pancaked. Everyone in the building was killed below him. That experience seeing death in the streets and great destruction influenced him into going to Seminary at North Park in Chicago; he graduated from seminary in 1910 at North Park. He served a few churches before marrying.
He met his future wife at the Covenant church in Jamestown, NY when he was student pastor there. He married Frida Maria Blomqvist in 1912, after he had taken a call at the church in Rochester, NY. They had five children- Roland, Margaret, Paul, Milton, & Bernice. His churches were all in the Mission Covenant Church, and he served in Jamestown, NY; Titusville & Warren, PA; Chicago; DeKalb, IL; Ironwood, MI; Red Wing, MN; and Upsala, MN. His last church was in Missouri, after he had remarried in 1951. In Nye, Wisconsin, he purchased a property and dismantled a barn and recycled it into a cabin for the family on Big Lake, where they enjoyed many years of fun and relaxation.
On trips home to Sweden, Axel preached in Riddarsholm Swedish Lutheran Church in Stockholm and in the Swedish Lutheran church in Linskoping. Back home, he preached in the Lutheran church he was baptized & confirmed in Yxnerum, Sweden. The whole town came out to hear him, and many cried afterwards because they were so proud of him. Hi mother Hilma, (1856-1938) is buried there in the church yard. In his Covenant churches, Axel was big on liturgy and hymns and the same format he followed from his upbringing in the Lutheran church. (The picture above is him in Seminary, and Luther's picture is right above him.) Axel had the pastoral job in Ironwood from 1935-1946. He is buried there alongside his brother Carl and his wife Frida. Axel officiated at the services of his children's weddings, his brother's funeral, grandkid's baptisms, and his wife's funeral in 1949. Axel served on church commissions, religious boards, and the North Park College board as tresurer.
Axel's pastoring to people and love of God rubbed off his grandson. His grandson, James Gerhardt Sucha, (b. 1964 from his daughter Bernice Eklund Sucha) is a editor of a Lutheran hymnal entitled "The Service Hymnal, A Lutheran Homecoming." which was produced in 2001.
You can find this hymnal on the www.servicehymnal.com site.
He survived the San Francisco earthquake on April 18th, 1906, after nearly being killed in the Valencia Street hotel boarding house that liquefied into the ground. He was sleeping on the 5th floor and walked out onto the street to safety after the building pancaked. Everyone in the building was killed below him. That experience seeing death in the streets and great destruction influenced him into going to Seminary at North Park in Chicago; he graduated from seminary in 1910 at North Park. He served a few churches before marrying.
He met his future wife at the Covenant church in Jamestown, NY when he was student pastor there. He married Frida Maria Blomqvist in 1912, after he had taken a call at the church in Rochester, NY. They had five children- Roland, Margaret, Paul, Milton, & Bernice. His churches were all in the Mission Covenant Church, and he served in Jamestown, NY; Titusville & Warren, PA; Chicago; DeKalb, IL; Ironwood, MI; Red Wing, MN; and Upsala, MN. His last church was in Missouri, after he had remarried in 1951. In Nye, Wisconsin, he purchased a property and dismantled a barn and recycled it into a cabin for the family on Big Lake, where they enjoyed many years of fun and relaxation.
On trips home to Sweden, Axel preached in Riddarsholm Swedish Lutheran Church in Stockholm and in the Swedish Lutheran church in Linskoping. Back home, he preached in the Lutheran church he was baptized & confirmed in Yxnerum, Sweden. The whole town came out to hear him, and many cried afterwards because they were so proud of him. Hi mother Hilma, (1856-1938) is buried there in the church yard. In his Covenant churches, Axel was big on liturgy and hymns and the same format he followed from his upbringing in the Lutheran church. (The picture above is him in Seminary, and Luther's picture is right above him.) Axel had the pastoral job in Ironwood from 1935-1946. He is buried there alongside his brother Carl and his wife Frida. Axel officiated at the services of his children's weddings, his brother's funeral, grandkid's baptisms, and his wife's funeral in 1949. Axel served on church commissions, religious boards, and the North Park College board as tresurer.
Axel's pastoring to people and love of God rubbed off his grandson. His grandson, James Gerhardt Sucha, (b. 1964 from his daughter Bernice Eklund Sucha) is a editor of a Lutheran hymnal entitled "The Service Hymnal, A Lutheran Homecoming." which was produced in 2001.
You can find this hymnal on the www.servicehymnal.com site.
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