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From 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)
JORGEN JENSEN.
The late Jorgen Jensen, who was a prosperous farmer of Sverdrup township, Otter Tail county, Minnesota, was a native of Denmark, where his birth occurred on June 25. 1838. Mr. Jensen was a successful farmer and an enterprising citizen. He was a son of Jens Jorgen, who spent his entire life in Denmark, never coming to this country.
Jorgen Jensen was educated in the public schools of Denmark, and after coming to America, located on the farm where his widow now lives in 1882. Fie purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land and died on the farm which he had carved out of the wilderness in [899.
By his marriage to Marie Hansen two children were born to Jorgen Jensen — Soren and Marie. The mother of these children died in 1882. and the following year Mr. Jensen was married to Johanna Hansen, a sister of his first wife, and to this union two children were born, Jens. Jr., and Carrie. Of these children, Jens was born in 1884, and received his education in the public schools, and is now engaged in the real estate business at Pfenning, Minnesota. Carrie was born 111 Otter Tail county. Minnesota. nn February 1, 18X7. ami was educated in the public schools and also in the normal school at Moorhead. She taught in the public schools for some time, and on September 25, 1910, was married to Willie Jensen, of Tordenskjold township, and to this union have been born three children, Rudolph, Erwin and Evelyn.
The late Jorgen Jensen was never active in politics, but voted independently and supported measures and men rather than parties and party emblems. He was a faithful and earnest member of the Lutheran church and was a regular attendant of religious services. His widow and family are also members of the same denomination.
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.
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