Hans and Victoria Stub Papers

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Contains information on the Dr. Hans A. Stub family, including memorial memorabilia, anniversary memorabilia, Norwegian American memorabilia, news clippings, and photographs.

Biographical note

The Rev. Hans Andreas Stub, D.D., was born May 18, 1879 in Koshkongong, Wisconsin. He was the descendant of a long line of pastors and teachers. His father, Dr. H. B. Stub, was president of the Norwegian Church of America from the time of its organization in 1917 until his retirement in 1925.

The Rev. Hans A. Stub was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1903 and came to Seattle as pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church. He held that post until 1958 when he retired. He died June 15, 1968.

During his 55-year ministry in Seattle, Dr. Stub was a leader in church and civic circles. He served on boards, commissions and committees. He was in constant demand for public appearances at civic, cultural and religious events. Whitworth College bestowed a doctor of divinity degree on him in 1936. In 1947 he was knighted by King Haakon VII of Norway, in the Order of St Olav, First Class. His congregation grew from a few members to become at one time the largest Norwegian Lutheran Church in the city.

On June 30, 1903, Dr. Stub was married to the former Victoria Saxe in Minneapolis. She was the daughter of a newspaperman who spent most of his career in the Pacific Northwest. The Stubs had two children, Gerhard and Sylvia, both of them were teachers and both of whom died within three years of each other, each at age 30. Sylvia taught French and German at Roosevelt High School.

(From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Wed., Oct. 8, 1975)

Mrs. Hans A. Stub, widow of a pioneer Lutheran missionary here, founder of the Norwegian Hospital Association and a longtime churchwoman in Seattle, died Monday at the age of 92. Mrs. Stub was born in Christiania, Norway, in 1882, and came to the United States the next year.

In 1903, she married the Rev. Hans Andreas Stub, who had just graduated from a seminary and was accepting a call to the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Seattle. The couple had two children, Hans Gerard and Sylvia Antonia, both deceased. Rev. Stub died on June 15, 1968. Mrs. Stub served as the organist at the church for a time, and taught Sunday school for 35 years.

She received the Sesquicentennial Award from the Norwegian American Anniversary Commission for civic leadership, and was named one of the community’s outstanding women by Matrix Table in 1955.