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Gift of Elizabeth Abbe, 2024.35.12, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, No Kn…
Reverend Dr. John E. Skoglund
Gift of Elizabeth Abbe, 2024.35.12, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection, No Known Copyright

Reverend Dr. John E. Skoglund

American, 1912 - 2005
BiographyJohn E. Skoglund was born on 1 April 1912 in San Diego, California. He married Daisy W. Skoglund (1910-2007). They had seven children: Jean Abbe, who married Dr. Robert Abbe (1937-2021); Joy Ernst; Linda Renne; Mary Skoglund, Jeana Skoglund; Gabrielle Mauerman; and John Skoglund.

He was a minister. He attended the University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley Baptist Divinity School; and Yale University. He served as a secretery for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society.

He died on 1 July 2005 in Oakland, California.


Source: John E. Skoglund Obituary. East Bay Times. 2005.
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