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AXEL H. CHRISTENSEN, M.D., a practicing physician of Joliet, was born in Hove, 

Sjalland, Denmark, June 13, 1867, a son of Jens and Susanna Maria (Brammar)

Christensen.  On his mother's side he descends from an old and noble family of 

Denmark.  His maternal grandfather, who was a prominent apothecary of 

Christianhaven, was a brother of Bishop Brammar, Bishop of Jutland, and the last

of those that had power. Jens Christensen, who was the son of a large landed 

proprietor of Jutland, was professor of schools for years, retiring when 

seventy years of age, and dying ten years later.  In religion he was a 

Lutheran.  He was a man of honorable character and upright life. His wife was 

sixty-five at the time of her death. Of their nineteen children eleven attained 

years of maturity.  Most of the sons became soldiers in the army, but one was 

an architect and another a professor. A sister married Zacharias Niedson, the 

most prominent Danish poet of today.

  Dr. Christensen, who was one of the youngest of the children, represents the 

thirteenth generation in descent from Hans Tausen, archbishop to King Frederick 

II.  He graduated from the high school of his native town in 1883, after which 

he attended Soro Academy until his graduation in 1888.  Meantime he had begun 

the study of medicine under private preceptorship, and afterward attended 

lectures in Copenhagen.  In 1892 he came to America and spent some time in

Kenosha, Wis., where he attended the high school and also studied medicine.  

Later he took the course of lectures in Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 

from which he graduated in March, 1897, with the degree of M. D. During the 

same time he completed the course in the Northern Indiana Normal School at 

Valparaiso.  In 1897, through his appointment as interne at Silver Cross 

Hospital, Dr. Christensen came to Joliet.  After one year in the hospital he 

began to practice medicine and surgery and has since built up a valuable 

patronage among the people of the city. He has his office in the Cutting 

building.  He is a member of the Desplaines Medical Society. Everything 

pertaining to his profession receives his warm interest. He keeps abreast with 

all the developments in therapeutics, and is justly recognized as a skillful 

physician, whose position in his profession has been secured

by intense application and constant study.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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