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"Committee’s Forward Coon Prairie
congregation in 1925 elected a committee to prepare a congregational This same committee presents now to the congregation and the public this history. We do it cheerfully. For we have had help of a well-known historical author. The task was large and worthy of being done well. We turned early to Hjalmar Rued Holand. After brief consideration he promised on the committee’s behalf to write the Coon Prairie history. This has been a work of love. His interest in the congregation’s and the settlement’s history has gladdened us since this has been a matter on invaluable benefit. This historical information which had to be found has under his hand received a worthy, courteous and interesting presentation. He has given advice and guidance from first to last. We bring him our warmest thanks.
The little work we as a committee had to do we will all remember with gladness. It has been for a good cause. The object has been to honor, under God, Coon Prairie congregation’s founders and fathers as well as the settlement’s pioneers. Honor be to the old fathers and mothers! Their accomplishments live in their descendants! On the committee’s behalf, J.O. Holum" Excerpt taken from Coon Prairie Churches by Hjalmar R. Holand
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history for its 75th
anniversary which will be held the 14th-21st of August
1927. 
To
the old Coon Prairie pioneer’s descendants, both far and near,
we also owe great thanks for their help and support. They have
willingly and amiably furnished us biographical and other
information about parents, and loaned us valuable photographs
for this work. We have thereby been able to give a fairly
complete biographical list of the settlement’s immigrants from
1848 to about the Civil War’s end. Especially we thank the
sisters Olette, Thea and Ragna Gullord for their untiring effort
to prepare the 350 biographies.