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Vital Records: Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929 Died: Jan 29, 1928 in: Monrovia, Liberia Born: May 27, 1887 in: Weston, IA Type of practice: Allopath Practice specialties: GS General Surgery State/year of licenses: IL, 1916, CO, 1922 Places/dates of practice: Weston, IA, 1916, Jul 12, 1917, Chicago, IL, Nov 22, 1916, Aug 6, 1917, Grant Park, IL, Jan 17, 1918, Nov 25, 1921, Monrovia, Liberia, Jul 21, 1919, Jul 1, 1926 Hospital affiliations: American Lutheran Hospital Medical school: Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, Chicago: American College and Medicine & Surgery, 1916, (G) Other education: Dana College Journal of the American Medical Asociation citation: 90:1058 Cause of demise: streptococcus sore throat, interstitial nephritis; (M)
__________________________________ From Herman Klauck
FROM AN UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER (PROBABLY IN GRANT PARK, ILINOIS)
MISSIONARY WILL BE GIVEN FAREWELL March 30, 1926
Members of St. Mark's. Will Hold Service Tomorrow In Honor of Dr. C. H. Nielsen, Representative in Africa.
A farewell service will be held in St. Mark's Lutheran church, Carlisle street, tomorrow morning at 10.45 o'clock during the regular, church service for Dr. C. H. Nielsen, who with his wife and two children will leave the United States on July 3 for Africa, where he will be St. Mark's own missionary. The farewell address will, be delivered by the Rev. Dr. L. B. Wolff, Baltimore, chairman of the foreign mission board of the United Lutheran church of America. Dr. Nielsen will arrive in Hanover early this evening from Chicago, where he and his family have been residing. He will be entertained at the St. Mark's parsonage over the week-end by the Rev. and Mrs. John S. Tome. Dr. Nielsen has served for six years as a missionary in Africa, having been forced to return to America on account of illness. During the regular Sunday school period tomorrow morning the St. Mark's Sunday school will present a gift to Dr. Nielsen and his family. Special music has been arranged for the farewell service.
OBITUARY FROM AN UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER (PROBABLY IN GRANT PARK, ILINOIS) February 1928 CARL HENRY NIELSEN
Carl Henry Nielsen was born in Weston. Iowa April 21, 1887. He was baptized and confirmed in the Danish church. After graduation from Dana College Blair, Nebraska he graduated from Loyola , University school of Medicine in1916. He served in the World War and at the time of death was Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps. He was married to Dorotha Anna Kramer in Aug. 1917. In 1919 a course of Tropical Medicine was taken in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and from there they went to Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa as medical missionaries. From I922 to 1926 Dr. Nielsen as we all know lived and practiced medicine in Grant Park, Illinois. In 1926 they returned to the American Lutheran Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia where he passed away January 29, 1928 of streptococcus sore throat and interstitional nephritis. He leaves to mourn his widow and two children: Albert Kramer and Armond Carl; four brothers N. P. pastor of the Lutheran church in Plainview, Nebraska and J. P. a missionary in Japan for twenty years has been invalid home and is now teaching in the seminary at Blair, Nebraska; one Sister and a large number of relatives and friends.
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