Couple celebrating anniversary
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Black and white photograph of a man and woman celebrating their 50th anniversary. They are standing behind a table and cutting a cake. People are seated at the table.
- Notes
- Emil Albert Gomann (1889-1969) was a Lutheran pastor, missionary and professor.
Gomann was born in Germany. He graduated from Kropp Seminary, and accepted positions as Immanuel and Christ churches in Berlin, and St. Mary’s Cathedral in Osnabrueck.
In 1913 he accepted a call from the Mission Board of the Canada Synod and immigrated to Canada. Gomann served in various parishes in Ontario, including including Milverton, Chalk River, Petawawa, Linwood, and Denbigh. He also served at Grace Lutheran Church in Gurley, Nebraska.
Gomann taught at several seminaries, including the Lutheran College and Seminary in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Central Lutheran Seminary in Fremont, Nebraska; Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in Waterloo, Ontario.
Emil Gomann continued to pursue post-graduate studies throughout most of his life. He received a BA from Waterloo College; an MA from University of Toronto; a BD from the Chicago Lutheran Seminary; an MST from the Chicago Lutheran Seminary; and a DST from Chicago Lutheran Seminary. - Inscriptions
- Handwritten, front: Golden wedding [Leifso]
- Date of Original
- Between 1919 and 1969
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 6cm
Image Height: 10.5cm
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- S2093_U57_1712.3
- Collection
- Emil Albert Gomann fonds
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Wilfrid Laurier University Archives & Special Collections
- Reproduction Notes
- U57 Disc27
- Contact
- Wilfrid Laurier University LibraryEmail:libarch@wlu.ca
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