Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Jensen, Chris 1870 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

CHRIS JENSEN.

    By close application and. fair dealing with his fellow men, Chris Jensen, of
Evan, Brown county, has built up a large and growing trade as a hardware and
lumber dealer. He was born in Denmark, July 15, 1870, and is a son of Nels J.
and Kirsten (Christensen) Jensen, both natives of Denmark, where they were
married and established their home, the father devoting his active life to
farming. He brought his family to the United States in 1883 and bought eighty
acres in Prairieville township, Brown county, where he lived until 1908, when he
retired and has since made his home in the village of Evan. His family consists
of four children, a son and three daughters, namely: Mary, Anna, Chris and Carrie.

    Chris Jensen spent his boyhood in Denmark, where he attended school until he
was thirteen years old, when he came to America with his parents, and attended
the public schools of Brown county, Minnesota, until he was twenty years old,
then learned the butter-making business, at which he worked for three years,
when he started in the hardware business in Evan with only an
eight-hundred-dollar stock. Six months later he took in a partner and also
started a lumber yard. The partnership continued until 1911, when he bought out
his partner's interest and has since conducted both the hardware and lumber
business alone, carrying about a five-thousand-dollar stock of hardware and a
six-thousand-dollar stock of lumber. His trade extends all over the county in
both lines and he has been very successful in each.

     Mr. Jensen was married in 1899 to Ida Anderson, a daughter of N. F. and
Mary Anderson, both natives of Denmark, from which country they emigrated to
Minnesota in an early day and were among the first settlers of Redwood county,
where Ida Anderson was born. She is one of two children. To Mr. and Mrs. Jensen
three children have been born, namely: Arthur, Mabel and Myrtle; the two eldest
are attending school in Sleepy Eye at this writing.

     Mr. Jensen is an independent voter. He belongs to the Masonic lodge at
Sleepy Eye. He is also a member of the Danish Lutheran church, and has been a
trustee of the same for three years.


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Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana

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