Neal C. Jensen

JENSEN

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 11/24/2007 at 20:24:34

Neal C. Jensen is a prominent young farmer in Union township. He owns and resides on the southwest quarter of sec. 4, which he purchased Oct. 10, 1881, the date of his advent into Worth county. Mr. Jensen was born in Denmark, Aug. 6, 1858. He is a son of Jens and Marien (Rosemussen) Jensen, who are also natives of Denmark, and who emigrated to America in 1881. They are at present residents of Palo Alto Co., Iowa. Neal C. Jensen passed his earlier life among the scenes of his birth, alternately working on the farm and attending school until he was seventeen years of age. In 1875 he went to Schleswig, Germany, where he remained until 1879. In the latter year he became convinced that the United States offered better advantages to the poor man to become a citizen and make for himself a pleasant home among pleasant people than any other Nation on the earth, and he came over to America the same year. He landed at New York and took a west bound train for Iowa, arriving at West Branch on the 10th of April. The first three winters he was in America he spent in school, learning to speak, read and write in the English language. He came to Union township, in this county, in the fall of 1881 and purchased the farm he now owns. Mr. Jensen was united in marriage, July 22, 1882, to Annie Leschke, a native of Germany. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen are highly respected by all their acquaintances.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 882.