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Biography
Tony was born in 1890. He married Bessie Schneider-Butler in 1914. [1] Tony passed away in 1963.
"Antonius "Tony" Jensen (1889-1963), who came from a longtime boat-building family in Denmark, immigrated to Canada in 1905, and moved to Seattle the following year to work at the Moran Ship Yard. He moved to Victoria in 1912, where he met and married his wife, Bessie (1892-1968). In 1922, now with sons George (1915-1977) and Anchor (1918-2000), the couple returned to Seattle permanently, living in Portage Bay on a boat Jensen built.
A professional musician as well as a shipwright, Jensen became first-chair violinist for the Seattle Symphony and played piano at the Pantages Theatre. He began building boats near Green Lake in his spare time, trundling them overland tAntoniuso launch at Portage Bay, which until 1913 had no name of its own and was simply the easternmost section of Lake Union. In 1927 the family bought 100 feet of waterfront on the bay's north shore, built a boat shop with living quarters above, and started the Jensen Motor Boat Company." [2]
Sources
- ↑ British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDZ8-R3G
- ↑ https://www.historylink.org/file/20366
- United States Census, 1940: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K93S-NHV
- United States Social Security Death Index: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J1TL-NJX
Some of the boats
- Cadrew: https://classicyacht.org/boats/cadrew
- King Gustaf: https://classicyacht.org/boats/king-gustaf
- Phantom: https://classicyacht.org/boats/phantom-1931
- Waterhawk II: https://classicyacht.org/boats/waterhawk-ii
Other Seattle Area Boatbuilders and Designers
- John Anderson
- Norm Blanchard
- Norm Blanchard, Jr.
- Leigh Coolidge
- Frank Curtis
- Walt Curtis
- Al Curtis
- Otis Cutting
- Victor Arthur Franck
- Ruth Russell Franck
- Victor Russell Franck
- Bill Garden
- Ted Geary
- Lewis Grandy
- Earl Grandy
- Bill Grandy
- Anchor Jensen
- Dewitt Jensen
- Harry Jones
- John McLean
- Frank Prothero
- Bob Prothero
- Robert Prothero, Jr.
- Sivert Sagstad
- George Stebbins