MARTIN SORRENSEN.
Martin Sorrensen, a farmer of Greeley township, Audubon county, Iowa, was born on July 7, 1884, in North Jylland, Denmark. He is the son of Thas and Dorothy Sorrensen, also natives of North Jylland, where the former was a carpenter by trade. Thas and Dorothy Sorrensen, who never came to the United States, were the parents of nine children, five of whom are living, all in this country. Martin and Jens are the only ones living in Audubon county. In the spring of 1903, Mr. Sorrensen's sister, Katie, came to the United States and located at Hampton, Iowa. One year later Martin Sorrensen himself came to the United States, landing at Boston, Massachusetts. He came direct to Iowa, stopping at Hampton, where his sister was living, but remained there only three months, when he went to Keokuk and there he lived for eighteen months. He then removed to North Branch, Guthrie county, where he rented land until the spring of 1914, when he rented his present farm in Greeley township, Audubon county.
About two years after his arrival in this country, on August 1, 1906, Mr. Sorrensen was married in Guthrie county, to Mary Davidson, who was born on June 2, 1883, in North Jylland, Denmark, and who is a daughter of Martin and Jensena (Jensen) Davidson. They were farmers in their native land and still live in that country. Mrs. Sorrensen came to the United States in the fall of 1905, and, after landing at New York City, came direct to Iowa, locating in Guthrie county. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sorrensen are the parents of four children, namely: Clara D., born on May 2, 1907; Esther J., November 1, 1908; Harry Thomas, July 3, 1910, and Frank M., April 19, 1913.
Mr. and Mrs. Sorrensen and family are all supporters of the Danish Lutheran church.
Mr. Sorrensen is engaged in general farming and stock raising and since he is a comparatively young man and has already got a splendid start in the world, he promises to become one of Audubon county's leading farmers and citizens. He is at the present time operating between two hundred and three hundred acres of land and each year has been able to save considerable money from his earnings. Presently, Mr. Sorrensen will be able to purchase a farm of his own and by the time he has reached the prime of life, he will be thoroughly established in the agricultural life of Audubon county. Mr. Sorrensen is highly respected in the neighborhood where he lives.
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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. 611-612.
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