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variety, who gained influence from and a connection with fellow
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associations and denominations with roots in a revival among the
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Mission Friends first emigrated to the United States in the early 1860s. They considered themselves Lutherans "but not consider it right to call themselves after anyone." Their first missionary society was formed in Swede Bend, Iowa, on July 4, 1868, by missionary preacher
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