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Upsala College (UC) was a private college affiliated with the Swedish-American Augustana Synod (later the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church) and located in East Orange in Essex County, New Jersey in the United States.
Upsala College was founded in 1893 by the Swedish-American Augustana Synod of the Lutheran Church. Originally located in Brooklyn, it moved to Kenilworth, NJ in 1898. In 1899 it built a new campus there. After becoming a four-year college in 1903, it moved to East Orange, NJ in 1924.
Upsala College was a Swedish-American college, founded by the Augustana Synod, in East Orange, New Jersey form 1893 to 1995. The records largely consist of papers of the presidents and other administrative offices.
Upsala College was a Lutheran-affiliated, private college located in East Orange, New Jersey (1899–1995). After years of declining enrollment and financial problems, Upsala College closed in May 1995.
PortraitYears In OfficeEducation [1]Notes1Rev. Lars Herman Beck (1859–1935)1893–1910B.A., Augustana College (1885) attended ...2Rev. Peter Froeberg (1873–1954)1910–1920B.A., Augustana College (1898) B.D.3Rev. Carl Gustav Erickson (1877–1936)1920–1936B.A., Augustana College (1904) B.D., ...4Rev. Evald Benjamin Lawson (1904–1965)1938–1965B.A., Upsala College B.D. Augustana ...Upsala College was a private college located in East Orange, New Jersey, and affiliated with the Swedish American Augustana Synod. In 1893, Upsala was founded in Brooklyn, New York City, and finally to East Orange in 1924.
An Upsala College graduate, Rev. Peter Froeberg assumed the presidency in 1910. C.G. Erickson assumed the presidency of Upsala College in 1920 and served until 1936. In 1923, the college 45 acres of land in East Orange, New Jersey, where a new campus was erected.
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Sep 21, 2010 · Old Main opened September 5. The college boasted “a liberal, thorough and broad education” in four departments: academics for teaching or general studies, commercial for “mercantile pursuits,”...
