Lutheran clergyman, church president, b. Vestre Slidre, Norway. He migrated to the U.S. and Wisconsin with his parents in 1851, and in 1855 moved again, settling near Decorah, Iowa. He attended a Lutheran seminary at Marshall, Wis. (1869-1870), studied briefly at the Univ. of Wisconsin, and graduated from Augsburg Seminary in Minneapolis (C.T., 1873). He was ordained the same year, and served briefly as pastor at Duluth, Minn. He was pastor at Menomonie, Wis. (1874-1876) and at Eau Claire (1876-1902). A leader in the union movement among the factional Norwegian Lutherans, at Eau Claire Hoyme built up one of the largest Norwegian Lutheran congregations in the U.S. He was president of the conference for the Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (1886-1890), and president of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (1890-1902). Known for the beauty, tolerance, and reason of his sermons, two volumes of selected writings and papers were published posthumously in 1904, I Hvilestunder (In Monuments of Rest) and G. Hoyme, Prestog Formand (G. Hoyme, Preacher and President). His work for union of the Norwegian Lutheran synods culminated on the anniversary of his death (June 9, 1917), when the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was organized. Dict. Amer. Biog.; Who's Who among Pastors in . . . Norw. Luth. Synods . . . (Minneapolis, 1928); J. G. Gregory, ed., W. Central Wis. (4 vols., Indianapolis, 1933); Milwaukee Sentinel, June 10, 1902.Learn More
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