Reorus Torkillus

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Reorus Torkillus was the first Lutheran clergyman to settle in what would become the United States. He arrived at Wilmington, Delaware on April 17, 1640.

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• Gross, Ernie. This Day in Religion. New York: Neil-Schuman Publishers, 1990. ISBN 1-55570-045-4.