Identification:  G. J. Wegener at Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Otto Wismar as the first Pastor of Mount Calvary Lutheran Church in New Orleans. The New Orleans area Lutheran clergy in the photograph are identified by a note on the back [see below] as follows:
      Back row, left to right: G. J. Wegener, St. Paul; E. Kuss, Zion; C. Niermann, Concordia College; A. Witt, St. Paul (Colored); H. Hartmann, Christ.
      Front row, left to right: E. Krause, Mt. Zion (Colored); Wambogans, Trinity (Algiers); O. W. Wismar, Mt. Calvary; A. Wismar, Salem (Gretna).

Notes: The Concordia Historical Institute provides the following information on the Rev. Otto Wismar:
William Otto Wismar was born in Chicago (d. 1965).  He graduated from Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, in 1910, and was ordained at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, New Orleans, on August 28, 1910.  From 1917 to 1918 he served as a chaplain.  In 1921 he joined the faculty of St. Paul's College, Concordia, Missouri.  He became the pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, Los Angeles, in 1926.  His collection at CHI contains correspondence, personal files, and class notes.

Date: 28 August 1910.

Repository: Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Missouri.

Size of original: 5.5 inches x 4 inches on an 8-inch by 6-inch mat.

Number: W-PHO-0057.