MATT CHRISTENSEN.
Matt Christensen, although of Danish parentage, is one of Uncle Sam's true children and with whom he is well pleased, as there is no vocation in which he is more interested, or stands ready to give his valuable advice and assistance to, than that of agriculture. No man need suffer for the want of proper instruction in conducting his farm along the most approved and up-to-date lines. All he has to do is to spend a few moments of his time, and a two-cent postage stamp, and Uncle Sam does the rest. If the necessary information is not at hand, he sees to it that same be secured and forwarded
to his child of the soil, with the least possible delay.
Matt Christensen, general farmer and stockman, of Lincoln township, Audubon county, was born on November 29, 1878, in Shelby county, Iowa. He is a son of Christian Christensen and Marie Peterson, his wife. In his early youth, he attended the public schools of Shelby county, quitting school at the age of fourteen years. He farmed with his father until the age of twenty-two, when he rented a farm in Shelby county and cultivated it for two years. Giving this up, he returned to his father's farm, where he has been ever since. He has given his special attention to the raising of cattle and hogs, and his crops, principally corn and small grain, have been fed to the stock on the place. He is a member of the Danish Lutheran church, of Shelby county, and in politics he is a Republican.
The parents of the subject were born in Denmark, and married in Davenport, Iowa. His father lived on a farm of four hundred and forty acres in Shelby county all his life, up to 1914, when he retired and moved to Kimballton, Iowa. They were the parents of nine children, Christ, Nels, Anna, Matt, Johannes, Nels, Madia, Martha and Mary.
In 1901 Matt Christensen was united in marriage with Anna Petersen, daughter of Christ Petersen, of Shelby county, Iowa, by whom he has had four children, Matie, Christena, Laura and Mabel, the three eldest of whom are attending the county school.
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Transcribed from History of Audubon County, Iowa Its People, Industries and Institutions With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, by H. F. Andrews, editor, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1915, pp. 719-720.
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