Lars Jensen (1843 - 1916)

Born 26 Mar 1843 in Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark

Ancestors

Husband of Maren Sophie (Hansdatter) Jensen — married 30 Nov 1866 in Sandby Sogn, Tybjerg Herred, Præstø Amt, Denmark

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1916 at age 73 in Tillamook, Oregon, United States

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Biography

1843 BIRTH AND BAPTISM
Baptism name: Lars Jensen^{[1] [2]}
Birth: 26 March 1843 ^[3]
Place: Tyvelse Parrish, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark. ^[1][4]
Baptism: 13 August 1843
Place: Tyvelse, Præstø, Denmark ^[5]
Date of vaccination: 3 August 1843 ^[6]

According to the custom prevailing in the land, Lars Jensen (son of Jens) took as his surname the given name of his father, Jens Rasmussen. His mother was Bodil Larsdatter (daughter of Lars). ^[3][7]

1843 - Lars Jensen - Birth & Baptism

Lars was born and raised in Præstø County on the Danish island of Zealand.

Sandby & Tyberg, Præstø County and Ringstead, Sorø County

Præstø County was abolished in 1970, merging with Maribo County to form Storstrøm County.^[8]

The Five Regions of Denmark After 2007

The Regions of Denmark were created as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform. The five regions replace the former sixteen counties. The Jensen residences in Præstø and Sorø Counties are now in Region Sjælland aka Region Zealand. ^{[9][10] [11]}

1845 Denmark Census
Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark ^[12]

1845 Denmark Census - Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Danmark

1850 Denmark Census
Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark ^[13]

1850 Denmark Census - Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Danmark

1857 Confirmation
Confirmation 19 April 1857 in Danish Lutheran Church, in Tyvelse, Præstø, Danmark ^[6]

1857 - Lars Jensen - Confirmation

1866 MARRIAGE
Lars Jensen, 23, and Maren Sophie Hansdatter, 24,
married 30 November 1866 in the Sandby Church, Sandby, Præstø, Denmark.^[14][15]

1866 - Lars Jensen and Maren Sophia Hansdatter Marriage

Children born in Denmark:

Karen Marie Jensen (b and d Denmark 1867)^[16]

Hans Lars Jensen (1868-1948) ^[17]

Charles Christian "Carl or CC" Jensen (1871-1942) ^[18]

Children born in USA:

Mildred Amelie Kristiana "Millie C."(Jensen) Sappington (1875-1931)^[19]

Marie "Mary" (Jensen) Davis Darling (1878-1965)

They also had another infant, birth and death place unknown. ^[3]

Maren's sister Ane Marie Hansdatter married Lars' brother Hans Jensen in 1865.

1870 Denmark Census
Sandby, Tybjerg, Præstø, Denmark^[20]

1870 Denmark Census - Lars, Maren & Hans Jensen

1872 Emigration - Denmark to USA
In 1872, Lars and Maren Jensen and their two sons, Carl Christian and Hans Lars Jensen, last residing in Sandby, Præstø County, registered to travel to New York on 12 April 1872. ^[21][22]

They settled in Middlesex County, New Jersey, where Lars worked in the fire clay banks for four years.^[3] Their daughter Amelia C "Millie" was born in Woodbridge. ^[23]

1872 - New York & New Jersey

A Jensen grandson ^[2]believed that brothers Hans, Lars, and Peter came to the US together before 1868 -- Danish emigration records were not kept before 1868 so this cannot be proven. If true, Lars went back to Denmark before the 1870 census ^[20]and returned to the US with his family in 1872. ^[21]

Brother Hans came to the US in 1868; they stayed in New Jersey until migrating to Iowa in 1882. Brothers Peter and Anders came to New Jersey and stayed there. Maren's brother Niels Peder Hansen and his friend left Denmark in 1871, spent four years in New Jersey and two years in California before settling in Oregon.^[24]

1876 Move from New Jersey to California to Oregon
In 1876 the Lars Jensen family went west to California, by way of Panama. ^[3]

Hans Lars Jensen recalled, "In the year of 1878 my family left Bakersfield, California, and started our long trek into Tillamook County. We landed at Dayton, Oregon, which was at the end of the railroad; from there we hired a hack to take us to Grande Ronde. We remained there while Father went on foot over the old Hebo trail to what is now Hebo, where my uncle N.P. Hansen had taken up a homestead..."^[25]

Lars first filed squatter’s rights on land that is now Cloverdale but he soon gave it up.^[25] He then filed a claim where the town of Hebo is now. (Nearly all of present day Hebo is located on the original Jensen homestead.) ^[24]Like his father in Denmark, Lars and his sons were dairymen.

Oregon Pioneers Hans & Sophia Jensen

1880 US Census
Union Precinct, Tillamook County, Oregon ^[26]

L. Johnson [Lars Jensen], 38, b Denmark, farmer

M. Johnson [Maren Jensen], 38, b Denmark, wife, housekeeping

H. L. Johnson, [Hans Lars Jensen], 11, b Denmark, son, at home

C Johnson [Carl Jensen], 9, b Denmark, son

M Johnson (Millie Jensen] 5, b New Jersey, daughter

May Johnson [May Jensen], 3, b California, daughter

On 10 March 1888, Lars Jensen got title to his 160-acre farm in Tillamook County through the 1862 Homestead Act.

"Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land."^[27]

1888 - Lars Jensen - 160 acres in Tillamook County

1900 US Census
Hebo, Tillamook, Oregon ^[28]

Lars Jenson, 57, b Germany [Denmark] Mar 1843, imm 1870, NA, farmer

Sophye Jenson, 58, b Germany [Denmark] May 1842, 4 children, 4 living

Millie Jenson, 22, b New York Jun 1887, daughter

Mary Jenson, 20, b New York Jun 1888 or 1889, daughter

Charles Jenson, 20, b Oregon Feb 1880, son

1904 Portrait and biographical record of western Oregon..." LARS JENSEN BIOGRAPHY

LARS JENSEN. In common with the sons of Switzerland, the children of Denmark seem to possess particular ability for successful dairying. This statement finds confirmation in every state and territory in the west, and for years has been demonstrated in the eastern and middle western parts of the country. An encouraging example is found in Lars Jensen, who is spending the best years of his life a long way from his native land, and in Tillamook county has built up a dairying enterprise which yields him an income far in excess of similar undertakings in his sea-swept fatherland.

Mr. Jensen was born in Denmark, March 26, 1843, according to the custom prevailing in the land, took his father's first name, the original name being Jens Rasmusen. The father was a farmer and dairyman during his entire life, and died in Denmark in 1868, at the age of fifty-five years. He was survived by his wife, formerly Boar Hansen, who also was born in Denmark, and died there in 1871, at the age of fifty-five years. Lars is the youngest of the five sons and two daughters born to his parents, and owing to financial stringency in the family his early education was extremely limited. The greater part of his knowledge has been gained since coming to America in 1872, for under the new conditions he had more leisure to devote to the improvement of his mind, and more incentive to make the most possible of his opportunities.

After a voyage in a sailing vessel, he landed in New York city, and located in Middlesex county, N. J., where he found employment at digging fireclay. Four years of this sort of work sufficed to inspire greater ambitions, and Mr. Jensen decided to avail himself of an oportunity to come to the west, which he reached by way of Panama, and located in Bakersfield, Cal. A year later he came to Oregon over the Grande Ronde trail, with a pack-horse which enabled him to travel over the mountains at the rate of twenty-six miles a day. After looking around for a favorable location, he settled on his present farm of one hundred and thirty-six acres, near Hebo, where he has lived ever since, and engaged in dairying, stock-raising and general farming. Eighty acres of his property have been cleared and fine improvements made, including a comfortable house, and convenient barns and outhouses. Mr. Jensen milks eighteen cows, and is meeting with encouraging patronage from a large trade. He has a thorough understanding of dairying, enforces the first principles of neatness and dispatch, and presents in his home and enterprise a typical example of the successful and thrifty farmer and dairyman.

Mr. Jensen belongs to the Lutheran church, towards the support of which he contributes generously, and for the best interests of which he and his family actively work. He is a Democrat in politics, but has never taken any particular part in local or state affairs, contenting himself with meritorious service on the school board for many years.

He married Sophia Hansen in Denmark in 1867, and of this union there have been born six children, four of whom are living: H. L., engaged in farming near Blaine. Ore. ; C. C, living on a farm adjoining that of his father; Millie, wife of W. Sappington of Tillamook, Ore. ; and Mary, living at home. Mr. Jensen is energetic and capable, and in his adopted county and state has established a reputation for progressiveness and integrity, as well as for adaptiveness to the conditions which are so materially different from those among which he was reared and educated.^[29]

1908 Ethel's Letter
In a letter written by his granddaughter Ethel in about 1908, she wrote that her father and grandfather made a living by hunting and trapping both furs and predators and by acting as guides for hunters and fishermen.^[30] However, the men in her family were primarily dairy farmers going back several generations. ^[22]

1910 US Census
Hebo, Tillamook, Oregon ^[22]

Lars Jensen, 67, b Denmark, marrried 45 years, imm 1872

Maren Jensen, 67, b Denmark, wife, 6 children, 4 living, imm 1872

Next door neighbor:

Carl Jensen, 38, b Denmark, dairyman, married 9 years, imm 1872

Effie Jensen, 28, b Oregon, wife, 0 children 0 living

1915 Death of Wife Maren Sophia
Maren Sophia died 15 June 1915 in Tillamook County, Oregon. ^[31]

1916 DEATH AND BURIAL
Lars Jensen died 16 October 1916 in Tilamook County, Oregon; ^[32]
burial with his wife in the Hebo IOOF Cemetery, Tillamook County, Oregon,
now named Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery. ^[33][34]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG8G-W4RX : 16 August 2019), Lars Jensen, ; Birth, Tyvelse, Præstø, Danmark, 10, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Perrin, C.L. "The Perrin Family History", printed in Iowa, 1954.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} "Portrait and biographical record of western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present", Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, 1904; page 19;. Lars Jensen Bio. https://archive.org/details/portraitbiographwo00inchap/page/n8
4. ↑ "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG8G-PTG9 : 16 August 2019), Lars Jensen, ; Birth, Tyvelse, Præstø, Danmark, 10, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com. Denmark, Births and Christenings Index, 1631-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Genealogical Society of Utah. Western Europe Vital Records Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2000. Used by permission.[Lars Jensen; Gender: Male; Christening Age: 0; Birth Date: 26 mar 1843; Christening Date: 13 aug 1843; Christening Place: Tyvelse, Praesto, Denmark; Father: Jens Rasmussen; Mother: Bodil Larsdr]
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG8G-N72C : 17 August 2019), Lars Jensen, 19 Apr 1857; Confirmation, Tyvelse, Præstø, Danmark, 10, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
7. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Scandinavian family name etymology," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed December 16, 2019).
8. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Præstø County," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed October 31, 2019).
9. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Regions of Denmark," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed May 5, 2021).
10. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Counties of Denmark," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed December 17, 2019).
11. ↑ MAP IMAGE: Wikimedia Commons contributors, "File:Regions of Denmark.jpg," Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, (accessed July 8, 2020).
12. ↑ "Denmark Census, 1845," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLRK-HJZL : 11 May 2019), Lars Jensen in entry for Jens Rasmussen, Tyvelse, Tybjerg, Præstø, Danmark; from "Denmark Census, 1845," database and images, MyHeritage ( https://www.myheritage.com : 2016), film 01938; citing household 000081355, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen; FHL microfilm .
13. ↑ "Denmark Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL6D-3F4W : 17 November 2017), Lars Jensen in entry for Jens Rasmussen, 1850; from MyHeritage. https://www.myheritage.com : 2016 citing Tybjerg, 1843, Child, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen; FHL microfilm
14. ↑ Ancestry.com. Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. [Lars Jensen, 23, and Maren Sophie Hansen, 24, married 30 nov 1866 in Sandby, Praesto, Denmark; FHL Film Number: 50732, Reference ID: 2:F7Q97M]
15. ↑ "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG3P-WNTG : 17 August 2019), Lars Jensen and Maren Sophie Hansen, 30 Nov 1866; Marriage, Sandby, Præstø, Danmark, 5, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
16. ↑ "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG35-SM5D : 17 August 2019), Karen Marie Jensen, ; Birth, Sandby, Præstø, Danmark, 5, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
17. ↑ "Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG35-52MP : 17 August 2019), Hans Lars Jensen, ; Birth, Sandby, Præstø, Danmark, 5, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.
18. ↑ Ancestry.com. Denmark, Births and Christenings Index, 1631-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2008. Original data: Genealogical Society of Utah. Western Europe Vital Records Index. Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, copyright 2000. Used by permission. [Carl Christian Jensen; Gender: Male; Christening Age: 0; Birth Date: 14 mar 1871; Christening Date: 9 jul 1871; Christening Place: Sandby, Praesto, Denmark; Father: Lars Jensen; Mother: Karen [Maren] Sophie Hansen]
19. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1931." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.[Ametia C Jensen; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 15 Jun 1875; Birth Place: Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; Father: Lars Jensen; Mother: Mary Jensen; FHL Film Number: 494180]
20. ↑ ^{20.0 20.1} "Denmark Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL81-G7S9 : 15 October 2017), Lars Jensen, Sandby, Tybjerg, Præstø, Danmark; from "1860 Denmark Census," database with images, MyHeritage. https://www.myheritage.com : 17 January 2017; citing Sandby, Tybjerg, Præstø, Danmark, Census, Rigsarkivet, København, Danmark (National Archives, Copenhagen), Denmark; FHL microfilm 103918740.
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1} The Digital Danish Emigration Archives; Copenhagen Police Emigration Protocols; DDD Migrant Database [Name: Jensen, Lars; Age: 29; Contract no.: 221900; Last parish: Sandby; Last place: Sandby, Ringsted; Destination city: New York City; Ship Name: Indirectly;Position:Farmer; Destination: New York; Presentation date: 04/12/1872; Last up. county: Præstø;Country of destination: USA;State of destination: New York State; Remarks: SOS: Sandby ligger i Præstø amt lige på grænsen til Sorø amt kort vej fra Ringsted [Sandby is located in Præstø county just on the border with Sorø county a short way from Ringsted];IDkode: I7172J4108] [1]
22. ↑ ^{22.0 22.1 22.2} 1910; Census Place: Hebo, Tillamook, Oregon; Roll: T624_1283; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0257; FHL microfilm: 1375296 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.[Lars Jensen, 67, Den, m 45 yrs, no occupation, imm 1872; Marns Jensen, 67, Den, 6 children, 4 living, imm 1872]
23. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1931." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.[Ametia [Amelia] C Jensen; Gender: Female; Birth Date: 15 Jun 1875; Birth Place: Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; Father: Lars Jensen; Mother: Mary Jensen; FHL Film Number: 494180]
24. ↑ ^{24.0 24.1} "History of Saunders (Sanders), Hansen, Andersen, and Jensen famlies who homesteaded in Nestucca valley near Bebo and Cloverdale in the 1870s", author unknown.
25. ↑ ^{25.0 25.1} Tillamook Highlight-Herald, Tillamook, Oregon, 17 Oct 2003, excerpt from a story by Hans Lars Jensen, "A Family's Trek to a New Home"
26. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNCP-NZ5 : 20 February 2021), L Johnson, Union, Tillamook, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district ED 109, sheet 525B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,083.
27. ↑ National Archives, Milestone Documents, Homestead Act (1862), https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/homestead-act
28. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSDP-3C2 : accessed 5 June 2021), Lars Jenson, Beaver, Blaine, Hebo, and Sand Lake Precincts, Tillamook, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 74, sheet 8A, family 138, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,351.
29. ↑ "Portrait and biographical record of western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present.." Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, 1904, page 197 [2]
30. ↑ 1908 letter from Ethel Jensen to C.L. Perrin, author of "Perrin Family History" printed in Iowa 1954.
31. ↑ Oregon State Library; Oregon Death Index 1903-1920 Begin Hughes John; Reel Title: Oregon Death Index A-L; Year Range: 1903-1920 Source Information Ancestry.com. Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.[Maren Sophia Jensen; Death Date:15 Jun 1915; Death Place:Tillamook; Certificate:4402]
32. ↑ "Oregon Death Index, 1903-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ71-ZB5 : 11 December 2014), Lars Jensen, 16 Oct 1916; from "Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2000); citing Tillamook, Oregon, certificate number 41, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem.
33. ↑ "BillionGraves Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WWX4-68ZM : 27 June 2019), Lars Jensen, died 1916; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery, Hebo, Tillamook, Oregon, United States.
34. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94377680/lars-jensen: accessed 18 December 2022), memorial page for Lars Jensen (26 Mar 1843–16 Oct 1916), Find a Grave Memorial ID 94377680, citing Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery, Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA; Maintained by sameelee (contributor 48534864).

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