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Carl Christian Rasmussen (1901–52) was a Lutheran minister who was also a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1939 and 1947. ==Biography== Rasmussen was born on May 12, 1901, in Tyler, Lincoln County, Minnesota, the son of Rasmus S. and Mary Elizabeth Rasmussen, both of Denmark.〔 When Carl Christian was sixteen years old, he borrowed "a hundred dollars" to attend a barber college, after which he used the proceeds from barbering to finish South High School (Minneapolis) and Minneapolis Business College. He was first a retail clerk, then a salesman for a Minneapolis hardware firm and then purchasing agent for a wholesale house. He worked for a subsidiary of International Harvester as a traveler in three Midwestern states and then in 1923 became part owner of a retail hardware business in Lakeside, California.〔( Los Angeles Public Library Reference File )〕 He studied for the Danish Lutheran ministry at Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1927 to 1930, after which he held three pastorates—in Viborg, South Dakota; Salinas, California, and finally the Emanuel Danish Lutheran Church of Los Angeles.〔 Rasmussen was married to Clara Margaret of Arco, Minnesota, on May 21, 1922. They had three children—Miriam Eileen, Ralph Christian and Alvin or Alvind Carl—and lived in Los Angeles at 4308 Third Avenue in a Leimert Park area house he owned adjoining his church.〔〔(Location of his house on ''Mapping L.A.'' )〕 He died at the age of 51 on November 14, 1952, in his home at 1019 Verdugo Road, Burbank.〔( "Ex-Councilman Rasmussen Dies," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 15, 1952, page 3 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carl C. Rasmussen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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