Bio of Peter C. JACOBSEN b 1861, Jackson Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
Northern History Publishing Company, Jackson, Minnesota, 1910

p. 567

PETER C. JACOBSEN (1896), of Jackson, is a native of Denmark and 
was born April 7, 1861. He is the youngest of a family of nine children, 
of whom four are living. His father, Jacob Matsen, a butcher by trade, 
died in his native land in 1879, aged 54 years. His mother, Anna C. 
(Sorensen) Matsen, died in 1885, aged 64 years.

Peter made his home with his parents only until seven years of age; then 
he started out in life for himself. He secured a good education, 
completing it with a year's course in a high school. After his school 
days he worked as a farm hand until eighteen years old. Then he started 
a meat market in the city of Copenhagen, which he conducted until 1891. 
He left his native land July 9, 1891, and arrived at Winnebago City, 
Minnesota, July 24, of the same year. Near that town Mr. Jacobsen worked 
on a farm three years; then he rented a farm and conducted it two years. 
He arrived in Jackson county in 1896 and for two or three years worked as 
a farm laborer and at odd jobs. He then married and located in Jackson, 
and for the next four years worked in George Sawyer's coal yards. The next 
four years were spent as an employee of the Standard Oil Company. Since 
then he has been engaged in farming on a small scale. He owns seventeen 
acres of fine land on Thomas hill in the east part of Jackson, which he 
intends to plat as an addition. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen and 
Danish Brotherhood lodges, and he and his wife are members of the Lutheran 
church.

Mr. Jacobsen was married in Copenhagen, Denmark, February 8, 1883, to 
Hannah Peterson, a native of Sweden. She died April 4, 1886, aged 23 years. 
Two children, both of whom died in infancy, were born to these parents. The 
second marriage of Mr. Jacobsen occurred at Jackson November 3, 1899, when 
he wedded Mrs. Christ Larsen, who was formerly Miss Caroline Mortensen, a 
native of Denmark. By her former marriage Mrs. Jacobsen is the mother of 
one child, Carrie Larsen. To Mr. and Mrs. Jacobsen have been born three 
children: Myrtle, born September 14, 1902; Pearl and Ruth.