Pastor A.P. Lea of the Scandinavian Lutheran church in Chippewa Falls led the first mission service
in October 1906. All worship services were held in the homes and were later moved to the schoolhouse, District No. 13.
The first recorded church minutes are dated June 19, 1910 when a meeting was held to officially organize the congregation.
Present were Reverend A.P. Lea, Eric Hendrickson, Lewis S. Bue, Albert Hendrickson, Thomas Larson, and Oscar Roen. An
acre of land was acquired from the Wisconsin Central Railroad. Todd Wood recalled the land was donated.
While numerous Scandinavian families were involved in the establishment of
the church, they did not have enough money for the actual building. They went around the community to solicit funds.
The area was a mix of ethnic families. While they liked the idea of a church, they would only contribute if English was spoken
at the services. Thus the church was named English Lutheran so everyone knew the language to be spoken.
Various community familites were then instrumental in establishing a cemetery.
The land was given to the Township rather than the church so it would be a community cemetery.
