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Iver Olsen - Glåmos kirke, Sør Trøndelag, Norge
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Den 20. juli 1923 ble det «ved kongelig resolution meddelt tilladelse til at der ved Jensvold jernbanestation i Røros præstegjæld opføres et kapel.» Glåmos kirke stod ferdig i 1926, bygd etter tegning av arkitekt Claus Hjelte (1884 - 1969) i Trondheim. Kirken var opprinnelig bestemt for befolkningen i skolekretsene søndre og nordre Rugldal og Viken, som hadde 580 innbyggere. (Rørosboka, bd. 5, s. 74)
Iver C. Olsen was born in 1904 and worked for the US Department of Commerce in the 1930s and for the Treasury Department in World War II. Assigned to work in Sweden, he handled Special Fund accounting for the Office of Strategic Services and handled funds from the War Refugee Board for the rescue of refugees. Following the end of the war he acted as a representative for the International Cooperation Administration. In 1954 he was the Washington, DC representative of Tripp and Co. He died on November 5, 1960.
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