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- ↑ "Sameiningin". Digital Public Library of America. Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North America. Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ↑ US Bureau of the Census 1919, p. 398.
- 1 2 Ingvarsdóttir, Kristín (31 December 2022). "The Icelandic Lutheran Synod of America and its missionary in Japan, 1916–1941: : Steingrímur Octavius Thorlakson". Scandinavian-Canadian Studies. 29: 1–26. doi: 10.29173/scancan213 . ISSN 2816-5187 . Retrieved 9 January 2023.
- ↑ "Icelandic Synod". American Denomination Profiles. Association of Religion Data Archives . Retrieved July 27, 2017.
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- Bente, F. (1919). American Lutheranism. Vol. 2. St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- Nichol, Todd W. (1986). All These Lutherans. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishers.
- US Bureau of the Census (1919). Religious Bodies, 1916. Part II: Separate Denominations; History, Description, and Statistics. Washington: Government Printing Office. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
- Wolf, Edmund Jacob (1989). The Lutherans in America: A Story of Struggle, Progress, Influence and Marvelous Growth. New York: J.A. Hill.
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