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Andreasen, Matthias N

clergyman, orator, temperance advocate, was born May 2, 1871, in Denmark. In 1890 he entered the Danish Free Church seminary of Chicago; and subsequently graduated from the Chicago Theological seminary. In 1893 he was ordained a clergyman of the presbyterian church, and filled a pastorate in St. Paul, Minn., until May, 1897. He then joined the Danish united evangelical Lutheran church in America, and now fills pastorates in two large Lutheran churches in Sioux City, Iowa. He was the editor of the Free Church Messenger, a religious weekly published by the synod of Minnesota; is an ardent temperance advocate; and has lectured extensively in that cause.