Merced-Santa Cruz-San Luis Obispo County CA Archives Biographies.....Jensen, Matthew 1867 - 
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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

MATTHEW JENSEN

   The son of a baker by trade, Matthew Jensen was born in Schleswig, Denmark,
on March 4, 1867, and there he attended the common school. To the same school
went Margaret Lindberg, who came from a neighboring farm; they met daily and
played together. Matthew Jensen was the fourth in a family of seven children:
Doretta, Mary, Harvey, Matthew, John, James and Anna, deceased.

   Matthew, at the early age of fifteen, started out to make his own living and
came to America and California. A stranger in a strange land, ignorant of the
customs and the language, and with no means or influential friends, it was a
tough proposition which faced the lad. But he got a job on a ranch near
Watsonville and for eight years worked around on different ranches. Then he went
to San Louis Obispo and worked two years. By saving his money he had accumulated
funds enough to go into the dairy business on his own account, and with a
partner carried on dairying seven years on rented land. The profits were not so
good but that an engagement with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company seemed to
be a little better and for many years he was in their employ, first as a section
hand, three years as inspector of tracks, and seven years as section foreman of
the Tracy Division. But before this he bought a ranch two miles south of Los
Banos and built a home and farm buildings.

   The girl he used to go to school with in his native land had come to America
five years before, and they were married in Watsonville on November 12, 1892. In
1910 he resigned from the railroad business to devote his time to the little
home ranch where he resides in comfort today. There were eight children born to
this union, viz.: Anna, Mrs. C. C. Anderson of La Center, Wash.; Antone E. ;
Eva, Mrs. Joseph Ellis of Los Banos; Mark L.; James, deceased; Margaret E. (Rita
Beth), Mrs. M. J. Lane of Livermore; James H.; and John Norman. Mrs. Jensen
passed away on December 30, 1924, aged fifty-four years, six months and one day,
mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mr. Jensen is a Democrat in politics and
fraternally is a member of the Woodmen of the World.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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