Emery-Sanpete-Salt Lake County UT Archives Biographies.....Mickelsen, Neils 1820 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

NEILS MICKELSEN.

    The Scandinavian countries have furnished a very notable proportion to the
citizenship of Utah and among those who have come from Denmark was numbered
Neils Mickelsen, who was there born on the 12th of November, 1820. He arrived in
Utah in 1853, establishing his home at Ephraim, and thus became identified with
the pioneer development of this state. He built a log cabin, which was later
burned by the Indians. Having nothing left, he walked to Brigham and the story
of pioneer life, with its hardships and privations, was a familiar one to him.
At Brigham, in 1854, he married Sine Johnson and he became an active factor in
the development and upbuilding of that city, where he assisted in the
construction of the canals. In 1860 he removed from Brigham to Logan.

    At all times Mr. Mickelsen remained an active worker in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, which he had joined in Denmark, and there he served
as the first president of the Frederick branch. In 1860 Mr. Mickelsen was
married to Laura Ingeman, who came alone to America when sixteen years of age
from her native country of Norway. She walked about three hundred and fifty
miles in order to take passage on a boat at Christiania. She landed at New York
city and thence proceeded westward by rail to St. Louis, from which point she
traveled by boat up the Missouri river and from Florence, now North Omaha,
walked all the way to Salt Lake City and then to Hyrum. On the 6th of April,
1862, she came to Logan and on the 9th of August following became the second
wife of Neils Mickelsen. Nine children were born of this union, of whom five are
still living.

    Mrs. Mickelsen was present at the meeting of the first Relief Society when
it was organized in Logan in 1868. She was called as a teacher in 1870 in the
fourth ward, was counselor in 1884 and in 1889 was set apart as president,
resigning in 1914. She attended the sick, helped lay out the dead and extended a
helping hand wherever aid was needed. She was chaplain for six years of the Sine
D. Young Camp of the Daughters of Pioneers and also for two years chaplain of
the Cache stake of the Daughters of Pioneers. Mr. Mickelsen was ever an active
and earnest worker in the church and was first traveling high priest in Cache
county. He was also president of the Scandinavians for sixteen years. He
assisted in the building of the tabernacle and the temple and others of the
first public buildings of the state and was active in the building of the first
Logan canyon road. At the time of his death, which occurred in 1894, he was
filling the office of high priest and he was a most public-spirited and greatly
respected citizen who enjoyed the warmest regard of those with whom he came in
contact.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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


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