Jens Nelson

As printed in 1916

JENS NELSON.

Jens Nelson, a prosperous farmer of Tordenskjold township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, is a native of Sjalland, Denmark, where his birth occurred on January 2Q, 1870. Mr. Nelson is a son of Nels and Sophia (Nelson) Jensen.

Nels Jensen and wife were born, reared and spent all their lives in Denmark. The former was a laborer and a soldier in the War of 1863-64 against Germany. He is still living at the advanced age of eighty-two years and is in good health. His wife died about 1907. Nels Jensen and wife were the parents of twelve children, ten of whom were daughters and two sons. Nine of these children remained in Denmark. One daughter, Helena, came to America, and after arriving in this country, was married to N. P. Gloier, and they are residents of Brooklyn, New York.

Jens Nelson was educated in the common schools of Denmark, and when he was twenty-one years of age came to America, settling in Tordenskjold township, where lie worked for the farmers of the neighborhood for about two years. Afterward Mr. Nelson purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 10. and has lived here ever since. The farm was originally wild land, and had only a small log house on it in the way of improvements. Only about twenty-two acres of the farm had been cleared, but at the present time there is a tine house and a magnificent bank barn with a concrete foundation em the farm. There is also a concrete chicken house, and all of the outbuildings are substantial and convenient for modern farming. The house was erected in 1001 and the barn in tqoq. There is a beautiful avenue of oaks leading from the road to the house, and Mr. Nelson has also set out evergreens and box-elders, adding much to the beauty and attractiveness of the place. He has an orchard of fifty apple trees, and is engaged in mixed farming, 111 which he has met with a very commendable degree of success. On August 9, 1892, Jens Nelson was married to Johanna Christina Christensen, a sister of H. C. Christensen and C. H. Christensen, mentioned elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are the parents of five children. Marie, George, Christine, Lauritz and Herbert.

Both Air. and Mrs. Nelson and family are members of the Free Lutheran church, in which they take an active and interested part. Mr. Nelson is independent in politics. He is an enterprising farmer, a good neighbor and a good citizen, and enjoys the confidence of many friends and acquaintances.

As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.