the merger of 1917, a small group who chose not to join the merger for doctrinal reasons, reorganized as the Norwegian Synod of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (sometimes referred to as the "Little Norwegian Synod"). This group committed itself “to continue in the old doctrine and practice of the Norwegian Synod". In 1957, it changed its name to become the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Presidents Adolph Carl Preus, 1853–1862 Herman Amberg Preus, 1862–1894 Ulrik Vilhelm Koren, 1894–1910 Hans Gerhard Stub, 1910–1917 See also Norwegian-American Lutheranism References Other sources Aaberg, Theodore Arne. A City Set on the Hill, A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Norwegian Synod) 1918-1968. Nichol, Todd W. All These Lutherans (Minneapolis, MN: Augburg Publishing House, 1986) Nelson, E. Clifford, and Fevold, Eugene L. The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1960) Wolf, Edmund Jacob. The Lutherans in America; a story of struggle, progress, influence and marvelous growth.( New York: J.A. Hill. 1889) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America predecessor churches Norwegian Lutheran American Norwegian Lutheran American Norwegian Lutheran American Norwegian Lutheran Norwegian-American culture 1853 establishments in Wisconsin