David Emanuel Wahlberg

David Emanuel Wahlberg (September 9, 1882 – March 7, 1949) was a Swedish sports writer and editor who covered the 1912 Summer Olympics. He became president of the sports organization LAIF from 1937 to 1939. Later in life he was the Lutheran minister in Långsele, Sweden.

Biography He was born on September 9, 1882, in Ytterlännäs, Sweden to Johanna Winblad (1859–1916) and Per Olof Bernhard Wahlberg (1852–1927). He attended college in Sweden and graduated in 1901 then studied at the University of Chicago and received his Master of Arts in Romance 1904. He then attended Augustana College in 1905. On September 15, 1927, his wife Jenny Katarina Wågberg died and on February 28, 1929, he left Argentina with his four children and returned to Sweden where he married his housekeeper, Bertha Debora Engström. He worked for a few different congregations until 1936 when he moved to Långsele. In 1942 he wrote A history of the Långsele parish school system: 1842-1942 with Torsten Sundvall and Urban Öland. Wahlberg died on March 7, 1949, in Fagersta, Sweden.

Writings En krönika över Långsele sockens skolväsende (1942)