Funeral Homes in Saint Ansgar, IA

Facts about the city

St. Ansgar is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,107 at the 2010 census.

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History

The settlers fears were animated by the killing of settlers at Spirit Lake Iowa in 1857 and in New Ulm, Minnesota in 1862. St. Ansgar is named for the St. Ansgar church, congregation and town served as a center for the dispersion of Norwegian settlers north across the border into Minnesota and on into western Iowa from the mid-1850s into the late 1870s. Ansgar saint of Scandinavia, a French people Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D.