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Not many of the various countries of Europe who have given of their
ablest sons to aid in the building of America, particularly that region
universally known as the Great West, have been so liberal in proportion
to their population as has the little independent kingdom of Denmark,
whose robust and energetic and thrifty sons are found in every state and
territory, doing most valuable service in the work of advancing
civilization by their unstinted and effective labors. Among this number
is Christ Jensen, now a prosperous rancher near Cleveland, Idaho, which
is his postoffice address. Mr. Jensen was born on July 11, 1858, at
Hjadstrup, Denmark, the son of Jens and Mary (Hansen) Christensen, the
birth of the father being on April 4, 1828, and that of the mother on
February 9, 1825. The parental great-grandparents of the subject were
John and Elsie Marie Christensen, of German ancestry, and his
grandparents were Christ and Mary Jorgensen. The grandfather served as a
soldier for fourteen years in the great continental wars in which
France, Germany and England were the principal contesting powers and he
won a well-deserved reputation for his bravery and soldierly qualities.
The parents came to Utah in 1871, being converts to the Mormon faith,
and there resided until 1887, the father following his trade of mason,
as he did in Denmark, and also engaged in ranching. In the last
mentioned year he came to the wild region now Bannock county, Idaho,
from that time devoting his energies to successful stockraising, and the
father held the office of counsellor to the bishop for many years.
Christ Jensen had the advantage of the Utah schools until he was
seventeen years of age, thereafter engaging in railroad construction
work for two years, then working at lumbering and in the sawmills of
Logan Canyon, following this employment by accompanying his people to
Bear River City, being for a time connected with freighting operations.
In 1886 he came to his present location, secured a suitable tract of
land and engaged in ranching on his own account, having substantial and
commodious buildings suitable to his purpose, and here he now resides,
devoting his time and attention to the raising of cattle and large
annual crops of hay, being prospered in his endeavors and having the
reputation among his fellow citizens of being a good neighbor, an
enterprising and useful member of society and an industrious man.
Mr. Jensen married, on December 15, 1881, his bride being Miss
Dorthea Hansen, a native of Eretslad, Fyen, Denmark, where she was born
on December 21, 1859. She came to Utah direct from Denmark in 1878 with
her parents, in company with other converts to the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, they making their home in Bear River City,
her father dying at the age of sixty-four years, while her grandmother
is now in her ninety-eighth year. Mrs. Jensen is very active in church
work, ably assisting her husband, who has held the office of ward
teacher for a long term of years, also that of superintendent of the
Sunday school of the ward and serving as a home missionary of this stake
for two years. To Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have been born the following
children: Luella, born January 5, 1883, at Bear River City, Utah;
Eleana, born May 29, 1885; Mary Rosanna, born January 4, 1887; Penina,
born October 8, 1889; Letty, born April 12, 1891, deceased; Orlando R.,
born July 22, 1892, deceased; Effie, born November 13, 1893; Leo, born
July 10, 1895; Lucy E., born May 22, 1897; Hans, born October 7, 1899,
deceased; and Carl, who was born on July 11, 1898.
Extracted from Progressive Men of Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Fremont and Oneida Counties, Idaho, published in 1904, pages 619-620, contributed 2021 Jun 15 by Norma Hass
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