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CHRISTIAN NEPHI JENSEN.

    Christian Nephi Jensen is numbered among those who through their
 activities have
upheld Logan's reputation and standards as a great educational center.
 He is now
president of the Brigham Young College and a prominent figure in
 educational circles in
the state. He was born in Ephraim, Sanpete county, Utah, June 18, 1880,
 a son of Jens
Peter Jensen, a native of Denmark, who in 1866 became a resident of
 Utah, establishing
his home in Sanpete county, where he has long followed the occupation
 of farming and
still makes his home. He has been very active in the upbuilding of that
 county and in the
promotion of Its church interests. He was president of the high priest
 quorum and filled
various missions for the church. The mother, who in her maidenhood was
 Dorothea
Gregersen, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and she became the wife of
 Jens Peter Jensen
in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. Her death occurred in
 February, 1912.

    Christian N. Jensen was educated in the primary schools of Ephraim,
 in the famous
Snow Academy, the University of Utah, and Utah Agricultural College,
 completing his
course in the last named institution as a member of the class of 1908.
 He won the degree
of Bachelor of Science at the Agricultural College of Utah in Logan and
 later he pursued
post-graduate work in the University of California and in Cornell
 University at Ithaca,
New York, winning the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture In
 1909 and the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy in February, 1912, both in Cornell University.
 That he chose as a
profession a calling for which nature eminently intended him is
 indicated in the marked
progress that he has made. He occupied the chair of botany and plant
 pathology in the
Agricultural College of Utah for a year and a half or until 1913, when
 he was appointed
by the trustees of the Brigham Young College at Logan to the
 responsible office of
president, in which capacity he has since continued. He has further
 been active in the
educational field as a member of the board of examiners of the church
 board of education,
which supervises the entire church school system of the state. Formerly
 he was an
instructor in Snow Academy and was superintendent of schools at Manti,
 Utah, as the
successor of Professor A. C. Nelson. He is a charter member of the Phi
 Kappa Iota and
also belongs to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 and to the
National Educational Association. He likewise holds membership with the
Physo-Pathological Society of America, and is an associate member of
 the
American-Scandinavian Foundation. His life work and interest centers in
 the cause of
education and he has ever been a broad reader, a deep thinker and a
 discriminating
student.

    In 1911 Mr. Jensen was united in marriage to Miss Marian Lee
 Choate, a daughter of
Frank T. Choate, of Romulus, New York, a relative of Ambassador Joseph
 Choate, well known
American statesman, who for many years represented his country as
 ambassador to England.
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have two children, Frank Christopher and Lee
 Gregersen, aged
respectively eight and seven years.

    Continuing his work in the church, Mr. Jensen has been on the
 Sunday school board
throughout his entire life and there is no phase of the activity of the
 church with which
he has not been closely associated. He is well known in college
 fraternal circles,
belonging to the Delta Theta Gamma, a fraternity of the Agricultural
 College of Utah, and
to the Sigma-Xi, a fraternity of Cornell University, and the great
 science fraternity of
America. He is a man of charming manner and pleasing personality, a
 most thorough and
capable educator and a man of scholarly attainments with whom
 association means expansion
and elevation.

Extracted from:

UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920