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Show OGDEN MAN TO HEAD COPENHAGEN MISSION I (.'ail 1:;. I'clersen of Ogden has been ap pointed to succeed Hans J. Christiansen of Salt La Ue as president of the Scandinavian Scandi-navian mission of the L. D. S. church, with headquarters at Copenhagen. This appointment was announced yesterday by President Anthon H. Lund. .Mr. Petersen is awaiting his passport, Put expects lo sail with four other missionaries mis-sionaries to Scandinavia late In September Septem-ber on one of the steamers belonging to tlie American-Scandinavian line, going direct di-rect from New York to Copenhagen. Mr. Christiansen has been president of r li e Scandinavian mission since May, 1912. The 1,. D. S. church was established in Copenhagen in 1S30 by John E. Forsgren, and since that time thirty-five missionaries mission-aries have presided over the work. Mr. Petersen was horn in Sw-eden and filled a mission to Scandinavia in 1904. riecontly he has been in charge of an automobile business in Ogden. |