Administrative/Biographical History
Olof Nelson Glim was born December 15, 1865 in Glimakra, Skane, Sweden. He emigrated to the United States in 1882. He received his B. A. (1893) and B. D. (1900) from Augustana College and Theological Seminary (Rock Island, Ill.). He was ordained in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a Lutheran Minister, in 1899. He served in several areas in the United States as a minister including Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, New York, and Massachusetts.
While in California, he invested in a vineyard near the newly formed Vinland Colony near Kerman, California. In 1912, the California Associated Raisin Company, a cooperative business owned by raisin growers, was formed. Glim joined this group. The California Associate Raisin Company became Sun-Maid in 1915. Because of his ministry duties, he was often away from the raisin farm, but arranged for neighbors to care for it while he was gone. His last two ministry locations were in California, convenient to the farm. He retired to the farm with his family in 1924.
Olof and his wife Ingeborg had one son, Robert. Olof and Robert worked the vineyard until Olof's death in 1949.
Olof's younger brother Bengt Nilson Glim also attended Augustana College and Theological Seminary, receiving his B. A. degree in 1900 and graduating from the seminary in 1903.
O. N. Glim scrapbook
