Runólfur MarteinssonBorn in Iceland on 20 November 1870, son of Marteinn Jonsson and Gudrun Jonsdottir, he came to Winnipeg in 1883 and was educated at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota (1895) and the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary. He was ordained as a Lutheran cleric in May 1899 and served for a short time at the First Lutheran Church in Winnipeg and in the Churchbridge district of Saskatchewan. This collection contains many of his sermons done both in Manitoba as well as across Canada. Also included are some personal documents with correspondence.