His father, Jonas Swensson, a minister of the Swedish Lutheran Church, was president of the Augustana Synod of the Swedish Lutheran churches in America.
He married Maria Blixt in 1856 and emigrated the same year to begin work at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania and later at Jamestown, New York.
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