JENS JACOBSEN.
Among the younger farmers of Douglas township, Audubon county, Iowa, who are natives of Denmark, and who have made a success of farming in their adopted country, is Jens Jacobsen, a farmer and stock raiser and the proprietor of a hundred and twenty acres of land in Douglas township.
Jens Jacobsen was born, February 29, 1872, in Denmark, the son of Jacob and Elsie Jacobsen, both natives of Denmark. Jacob Jacobsen was a farmer and owned twenty acres of land in the old country. He and his wife had three children, Stena, Jacob and Jens. Stena and Jacob are still living in Denmark.
Jens Jacobsen, after having completed his education in the schools of his native land, quit school at the age of fourteen and began working on a farm, at which he continued until he had reached his majority. Coming to this country, at the age of twenty-one, Mr. Jacobsen first lived in Canada, and after a residence in Canada of a brief period came to Audubon county in 1893, and worked on a farm for six years. Later. he worked for the Standard Oil Company at Audubon for seven years, and then purchased a hundred acres of land in sections 33 and 34 of Douglas township. Mr. Jacobsen has invested about six thousand dollars in various improvements. In 1913 he built a new house which cost thirty-five hundred dollars. His principal crops are corn and small grains. His corn averages about fifty bushels and his oats about thirty-five bushels to the acre. Mr. Jacobsen feeds most of the grain to hogs and cattle. Every year he sells fifty head of cattle and about fifty head of hogs from the farm.
Jens Jacobsen was married in 1903 to Mary Christiansen, the daughter of James Christiansen. Mrs. Jacobsen's parents still live in their native land, Denmark. She has been the mother of four children, Carl Elmer, Seguro Chris, Ruben Saxholm, and Harvey Korguard. All of these children live at home with their parents. The three eldest children attend the country school.
Mr. Jacobsen is a Republican. He has served as school director in Douglas township, and for many years has been prominent in the local affairs of the Republican party. The Jacobsen family are all members of the Danish Lutheran church, and attend the services of this church with great regularity.
Jens Jacobsen is popular in Douglas township and well and favorably known throughout this section. He is today a stanch American who believes in our institutions and our government, and who, if called upon, would be willing to give valiant service in the cause of freedom.
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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. 664-665.
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