Sevier County UT Archives Biographies.....Jorgensen, Samuel Marion 1881 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

SAMUEL MARION JORGENSEN.

    Since 1862, when the first settlers came into Sevier county, the name of
Jorgensen has been a respected one here and the younger members of the family
are taking their part in upholding an untarnished family name through their
support of all activities and measures which have to do with the upbuilding and
further development of this region. John G. Jorgensen, a native of Norway, was
converted to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
came to America, making his way to southern Utah among the earliest settlers. He
married Matilda Jensen, whose father was at one time captain of a Swedish ship.
They settled in Koosharem and there, in 1881, Samuel Marion Jorgensen was born.

    In the graded schools the boy pursued his education and afterward assisted
his father upon the home farm until he started out to earn a living
independently, being employed at herding sheep. This work served as a spur to
the young man's ambition and early in 1905 he started in business independently
as a breeder and raiser of sheep. Industry and energy have brought him to the
front in this connection and although still in the thirties he owns a ranch of
two hundred acres and a flock of thirty-five hundred high grade Rambouillet
sheep. For the past few years he has devoted his attention to the fattening of
lambs for the market and in a decade has fattened more than twenty thousand. He
gives considerable attention to the cultivation and development of his farm as
well as to his sheep raising and has forty acres planted to sugar beets, while
the remainder of the land is devoted to general crops. He belongs to the
National Wool Growers' Association and is interested in all that has to do with
the question of sheep raising in the west.

    In 1905 Mr. Jorgensen was married to Miss Annie Christensen, a daughter of
Hans Christensen, of Salina, and they have become parents of seven children:
Phyllis, Marion, Blix, Grant, John, Louise and Allen.

    In politics Mr. Jorgensen gives his support to the republican party, and for
four years he served as a member of the city council. In 1917 he was nominated
for the office of mayor of Salina and was elected on the republican ticket. In
the solution of municipal problems he brought to bear the same keen
discrimination and sound judgment which he displays in the management of his
individual interests and at all times he was actuated by a progressive spirit
that made him an ideal mayor, while in business circles he bears a reputation of
which he has every reason to be proud. Thus he is upholding the high honor that
has ever been attached to the name of Jorgensen in Sevier county.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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


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