Individual Details
Jens Herman Jenson
(4 Oct 1879 - 17 Mar 1947)
SSN: 701-09-9601
From handwritten notes of Thelma (Stayberg) Gartmann:
3/18 - Uncle Jens killed at shops
3/20 - We were down to Jasper's to see him
3/21 - Funeral from church at 2 p.m.
Marriage year given as 1931 in obit, however, KMS in her address notes gives the marriage year as 1930.
(Letter in Norwegian; translated in 1988 by Else Bigton, Barronett, Wis)
Bjeldness, May 2, 1897
Dear Father,
I will write a few words today and let you know how I am here in old Norway.
I am well and healthy and hope to hear the same from you. It is now weeks since I came back from Lofoton. I liked it well and got 90 krones as pay. It wasn't much but I couldn't get more the first year.
I saw in the letter you sent to Lofoten that you would like to send me a ticket but it won't be this spring when Olaf are going to confirmation school. I don't want to leave till he is done with that.
I can't say I look forward to travel but it won't be faraway anyway till we go.
From me, Jens Nilsen
(Written in Norwegian; translated in 1988 by Else Bigton)
Bjellanes, Nov. 15, 1897
To my dear father so far away,
Since it is so long since I have written to you I will write a few words so you know I am well.
It is now four weeks since I got your letter and it is only my laziness preventing me from writing more often. For two weeks I was going to Hjertas with Olaf, but the weather was so bad I decided not to.
I see from you letter there are good times in America and that Aksel and Karen made so much money this summer.
I am thinking about going to Lofoten this winter but God knows it might be the last time. I have decided to come to America this spring if you can make enough money this winter to send us tickets this spring. And if you can't make
it maybe you can borrow it. If there is work we can soon pay it back.
I don't have anything more to write about and we will see each other in about a half years time. It is so long since we have seen each other.
Your son, Jens Nilsen
HST, 18 Jul 1898, p5
Jens and Olof Jenson, sons of N. J. Jenson arrived here from Norway on the 5th, and will make Hudson their home. They are 18 and 16 years of age respectively. It is twelve years since Mr. Jenson had seen them.
NATURALIZATION:
St. Croix County, Volume 4, pg. 80, on microfilm, UW-River FAlls, ARC,
St. Croix Series 62; Index to Naturalization, SEries 62, UW-RF ARC.
Naturalized June 21, 1906, witnesses G.H. Dickey and N. J. Jenson; arrived
New York July 2, 1898.
HST, 13Jun1902
School Board Proceedings
Hudson, Wis., June 2, 1902
Special Meeting of the Board. All members present except Commissioner, Webster. Principal McIver reported that the following students had completed the course of study in the high school and recommended that they be graduated;
towit:
Bessie Alice Bell, Walter Mortimore Bell, John Phillip Burnley, Victoria Ethel Buell, Saidee Pearl Cole, Lenora Sarah Crogan, Maude Cecilia Dorgan, Esther Jane Flynn, Eva Stella Greenfield, Bertha Edith Herum, Olga Christofa
Emelia Hanson, Emily Evelyn Holmes, Newton Robert Inglis, Kittie May Johnson, Osla Anette Johnson, Jens Peter Jenson, Henry Reginald Johnson, Clarence Edwin Johnson, Ethel Bird Lewis, Charles Miller Lumley, Hester Elizabeth Munson, Carrie Nina Nye, Edward James Oliver, Gertrude Irene Otis, Gertrude Agatha Ryan, Jeannette Marie Scott, Wendell Philips Webster, Charles Henry Wingender.
Moved that the report be adopted and that diplomas be issued to such graduates.
Carried. Adjourned. A.J. Kinney, Clerk
HST, 10Jun1902
Commencement Excercises
The Brilliant Finish of the Largest Class in High School's History
The evenings of June 2nd and 3rd witnessed the graduating excercises of the largest clss that has ever finished the course of study in the Hudson High School. Twenty-eight bright boys and girls received their diplomas and are
ready for college or to make themselves useful in the world...
Jens Jenson gave a practical and well thought out essay on "Fuel" which was instructive and doubtless of value to the one who worked it out...
CITIZENSHIP:
Declaration of Intent:- 31 Oct 1900, Circuit Court, St.Croix Cty., Hudson, Wis.
Citizenship Granted:- 21 Jun 1906, Circuit Court, St.Croix Cty., Hudson, Wis.
Witnesses were G.H. Dickey and N.J. Jenson.
HSO, 21 Apr 1916
Mr. Jens H. Jenson and Mary Olson were married at the home of the bride's parents on St. Croix St. on Wednesday, April 12. Only the immediate relatives were present. A bountious supper was served after the ceremony whcih was conducted by Rev. J. H. T. Lee. They will make their home for the present in the George Dickey duples on Sixth st.
HSO, 16Aug1918, p5, c2
Mr. Jens H. Jenson went to Minneapolis on Sunday and underwent an operation at the Northwestern hospital on Monday, August 12. Mrs. Jenson who spent Monday and Wednesday with him reports him progressing finely.
HSO, 6Sep1918, p5, c3
Mrs. J. H. Jenson visited her husband at the Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis, on Monday.
HSO, 6Sep1918, p5, c3
Jens H. Jenson returned Thursday of last week from Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis after undergoing an operation there and is improving in fine shape.
HSO, 20 Mar 1947, p1
Jens H. Jenson Dies of Injuries in Box Car Fall
Coroner Reports Skull Fracture in Fall; Funeral Friday Afternoon
Jens H. Jenson, 67 years old and a resident of Hudson for nearly half a century, died almost instantly about 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 17, from injuries sustained in a fall while working at the Omaha railway car shops in North Hudson. Mr. Jenson, according to fellow workers, had been repairing a box car in the coach shops. He had been working on a scaffold about 8 feet from the ground shortly before 10 o'clock. A few minutes later, Alfred Arntson and Fred Sweitzer, fellow workers, found his body on the floor below.
Coroner A. M. Ford of Roberts, who investigated the accident, stated that death was due to a skull fracture, undoubtedly suffered in the eight foot fall. Just how the accident happened is not known, for fellow workmen did not see him topple from the box car.
Mr. Jenson was born in Moshen, Norway, on Oct. 4, 1880. When 19 years old he migrated to America, coming direct to Hudson. He has been an employee at the Omaha car shops in North Hudson ever since. On July 31, 1931, he was married to Mrs. Clara Dahl. The family resided at 1119 St. Croix street.
Besides his wife, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. John Stayberg, Hudson; two brothers, Nels of Hudson, and Olaf Jenson of Whitefish, Mont.; and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Isabel Humphrey of Hudson.
The body will lie in state at the Jasper Funeral Home until 1:45 o'clock Friday, when it will be taken to the Bethel Lutheran church, where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock, Rev. Oscar Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Willow River cemetery.
HSO, 3 Apr 1947, p6
Jens H. Jenson
Jens H. Jenson, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nels J. Jenson, 7th and St. Croix street, met instant death in a fall from a box car on which he and other men were working at the Omaha car shops, on Tuesday, 10 a.m., March 18, 1947.
Jens Jenson was born in Mo in Ranen (Nordland), Norway, October 4, 1879. During his early boyhood he was herd boy at the Bjeldness Estate, near Mo, where with the owners' children he attended private school. When in 1891, his mother, an uncle , two brothers and a sister left for America to join the husband and father who had preceded them by four years to establish a home for family, Jens and his brother Olaf stayed on, Jens at Bjeldness and Olaf at Hjertaas, nearby.
In 1898 Mr. Jenson sent for his two older sons and they arrived in Hudson July 5, 1898 and Hudson has been Jens home henceforth, for nearly 49 years.
Jens was first employed at the Central Lumber Co. sawmill and worked there until the sawmill closed down for good in 1917. He was then transferred to the Local Lumber Co. yards for a couple years. In 1919 he entered the employ of the Omaha R.R. and worked there until the time of his death.
In 1916 Jens Jenson and Mary, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson, were married and purchased the H. J. White residence on East St. Croix. Six years later his wife passed away after fatal illness, in February 1922.
In 1931 Jens and Clara Sveen Dahl, widow of the late Christian Dahle of this city, were married, and they, with the daughter, Isabel, lived in the East Hudson residence.
Mr. Jenson's sterling character and fine clean manhood needs no comment here as that was well established among his host of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Jenson was a long time member of the Odd Fellows & Rebekahs, Sons of Norway. Whist Club and "500" Club, and enjoyed his affiliations with all the various groups, and all were well represented at his funeral on Friday, March 21, 2 p.m. at Bethel church.
Mr. Jenson's remains lay in state as Jasper Mortuary until Friday noon. His pall bearers were Henry Olson, Alf. Arntson, Oswald J. Solheim, Roy Huddleson, Ernest Erickson and I. E. Hill and he was laid to rest in Willow River Cemetery.
Out of town relatives and friends who came for the funeral were his brother, Olaf of Whitefish, Mont.; Mrs. Axel S. Jenson and son Robert E. Jenson of Superior, Wis.; Mrs. Birger S. Anderson of Minneapolis; Mr. H. Bjeldness, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. H. Bjeldness and sisters, Mrs. H. Skonseng and husband, and Mrs. Ekwald, all of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Reidell and three daughters of Altoona, Wis.; Mr. G. Brateng, Mrs. T. Jorstad and Mr. and Mrs. C. Jorstad of Kindred, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. C. Molstad, Mrs. L. Molstad and Mrs. A. Molstad, also of Minneapolis; Mrs. Carl Jahr of Baldwin, Wis. Mr. Jenson is survived by his wife and daughter, Isabel Humphrey, sister, Mrs. J. A. Stayberg, two brothers, Nels Jenson of North Hudson and Olaf Jenson of Whitefish, Montana and numerous nephews and nieces.
From handwritten notes of Thelma (Stayberg) Gartmann:
3/18 - Uncle Jens killed at shops
3/20 - We were down to Jasper's to see him
3/21 - Funeral from church at 2 p.m.
Marriage year given as 1931 in obit, however, KMS in her address notes gives the marriage year as 1930.
(Letter in Norwegian; translated in 1988 by Else Bigton, Barronett, Wis)
Bjeldness, May 2, 1897
Dear Father,
I will write a few words today and let you know how I am here in old Norway.
I am well and healthy and hope to hear the same from you. It is now weeks since I came back from Lofoton. I liked it well and got 90 krones as pay. It wasn't much but I couldn't get more the first year.
I saw in the letter you sent to Lofoten that you would like to send me a ticket but it won't be this spring when Olaf are going to confirmation school. I don't want to leave till he is done with that.
I can't say I look forward to travel but it won't be faraway anyway till we go.
From me, Jens Nilsen
(Written in Norwegian; translated in 1988 by Else Bigton)
Bjellanes, Nov. 15, 1897
To my dear father so far away,
Since it is so long since I have written to you I will write a few words so you know I am well.
It is now four weeks since I got your letter and it is only my laziness preventing me from writing more often. For two weeks I was going to Hjertas with Olaf, but the weather was so bad I decided not to.
I see from you letter there are good times in America and that Aksel and Karen made so much money this summer.
I am thinking about going to Lofoten this winter but God knows it might be the last time. I have decided to come to America this spring if you can make enough money this winter to send us tickets this spring. And if you can't make
it maybe you can borrow it. If there is work we can soon pay it back.
I don't have anything more to write about and we will see each other in about a half years time. It is so long since we have seen each other.
Your son, Jens Nilsen
HST, 18 Jul 1898, p5
Jens and Olof Jenson, sons of N. J. Jenson arrived here from Norway on the 5th, and will make Hudson their home. They are 18 and 16 years of age respectively. It is twelve years since Mr. Jenson had seen them.
NATURALIZATION:
St. Croix County, Volume 4, pg. 80, on microfilm, UW-River FAlls, ARC,
St. Croix Series 62; Index to Naturalization, SEries 62, UW-RF ARC.
Naturalized June 21, 1906, witnesses G.H. Dickey and N. J. Jenson; arrived
New York July 2, 1898.
HST, 13Jun1902
School Board Proceedings
Hudson, Wis., June 2, 1902
Special Meeting of the Board. All members present except Commissioner, Webster. Principal McIver reported that the following students had completed the course of study in the high school and recommended that they be graduated;
towit:
Bessie Alice Bell, Walter Mortimore Bell, John Phillip Burnley, Victoria Ethel Buell, Saidee Pearl Cole, Lenora Sarah Crogan, Maude Cecilia Dorgan, Esther Jane Flynn, Eva Stella Greenfield, Bertha Edith Herum, Olga Christofa
Emelia Hanson, Emily Evelyn Holmes, Newton Robert Inglis, Kittie May Johnson, Osla Anette Johnson, Jens Peter Jenson, Henry Reginald Johnson, Clarence Edwin Johnson, Ethel Bird Lewis, Charles Miller Lumley, Hester Elizabeth Munson, Carrie Nina Nye, Edward James Oliver, Gertrude Irene Otis, Gertrude Agatha Ryan, Jeannette Marie Scott, Wendell Philips Webster, Charles Henry Wingender.
Moved that the report be adopted and that diplomas be issued to such graduates.
Carried. Adjourned. A.J. Kinney, Clerk
HST, 10Jun1902
Commencement Excercises
The Brilliant Finish of the Largest Class in High School's History
The evenings of June 2nd and 3rd witnessed the graduating excercises of the largest clss that has ever finished the course of study in the Hudson High School. Twenty-eight bright boys and girls received their diplomas and are
ready for college or to make themselves useful in the world...
Jens Jenson gave a practical and well thought out essay on "Fuel" which was instructive and doubtless of value to the one who worked it out...
CITIZENSHIP:
Declaration of Intent:- 31 Oct 1900, Circuit Court, St.Croix Cty., Hudson, Wis.
Citizenship Granted:- 21 Jun 1906, Circuit Court, St.Croix Cty., Hudson, Wis.
Witnesses were G.H. Dickey and N.J. Jenson.
HSO, 21 Apr 1916
Mr. Jens H. Jenson and Mary Olson were married at the home of the bride's parents on St. Croix St. on Wednesday, April 12. Only the immediate relatives were present. A bountious supper was served after the ceremony whcih was conducted by Rev. J. H. T. Lee. They will make their home for the present in the George Dickey duples on Sixth st.
HSO, 16Aug1918, p5, c2
Mr. Jens H. Jenson went to Minneapolis on Sunday and underwent an operation at the Northwestern hospital on Monday, August 12. Mrs. Jenson who spent Monday and Wednesday with him reports him progressing finely.
HSO, 6Sep1918, p5, c3
Mrs. J. H. Jenson visited her husband at the Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis, on Monday.
HSO, 6Sep1918, p5, c3
Jens H. Jenson returned Thursday of last week from Northwestern hospital, Minneapolis after undergoing an operation there and is improving in fine shape.
HSO, 20 Mar 1947, p1
Jens H. Jenson Dies of Injuries in Box Car Fall
Coroner Reports Skull Fracture in Fall; Funeral Friday Afternoon
Jens H. Jenson, 67 years old and a resident of Hudson for nearly half a century, died almost instantly about 10 o'clock Monday morning, March 17, from injuries sustained in a fall while working at the Omaha railway car shops in North Hudson. Mr. Jenson, according to fellow workers, had been repairing a box car in the coach shops. He had been working on a scaffold about 8 feet from the ground shortly before 10 o'clock. A few minutes later, Alfred Arntson and Fred Sweitzer, fellow workers, found his body on the floor below.
Coroner A. M. Ford of Roberts, who investigated the accident, stated that death was due to a skull fracture, undoubtedly suffered in the eight foot fall. Just how the accident happened is not known, for fellow workmen did not see him topple from the box car.
Mr. Jenson was born in Moshen, Norway, on Oct. 4, 1880. When 19 years old he migrated to America, coming direct to Hudson. He has been an employee at the Omaha car shops in North Hudson ever since. On July 31, 1931, he was married to Mrs. Clara Dahl. The family resided at 1119 St. Croix street.
Besides his wife, he is survived by one sister, Mrs. John Stayberg, Hudson; two brothers, Nels of Hudson, and Olaf Jenson of Whitefish, Mont.; and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Isabel Humphrey of Hudson.
The body will lie in state at the Jasper Funeral Home until 1:45 o'clock Friday, when it will be taken to the Bethel Lutheran church, where funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock, Rev. Oscar Thompson officiating. Interment will be in Willow River cemetery.
HSO, 3 Apr 1947, p6
Jens H. Jenson
Jens H. Jenson, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nels J. Jenson, 7th and St. Croix street, met instant death in a fall from a box car on which he and other men were working at the Omaha car shops, on Tuesday, 10 a.m., March 18, 1947.
Jens Jenson was born in Mo in Ranen (Nordland), Norway, October 4, 1879. During his early boyhood he was herd boy at the Bjeldness Estate, near Mo, where with the owners' children he attended private school. When in 1891, his mother, an uncle , two brothers and a sister left for America to join the husband and father who had preceded them by four years to establish a home for family, Jens and his brother Olaf stayed on, Jens at Bjeldness and Olaf at Hjertaas, nearby.
In 1898 Mr. Jenson sent for his two older sons and they arrived in Hudson July 5, 1898 and Hudson has been Jens home henceforth, for nearly 49 years.
Jens was first employed at the Central Lumber Co. sawmill and worked there until the sawmill closed down for good in 1917. He was then transferred to the Local Lumber Co. yards for a couple years. In 1919 he entered the employ of the Omaha R.R. and worked there until the time of his death.
In 1916 Jens Jenson and Mary, eldest daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Johnson, were married and purchased the H. J. White residence on East St. Croix. Six years later his wife passed away after fatal illness, in February 1922.
In 1931 Jens and Clara Sveen Dahl, widow of the late Christian Dahle of this city, were married, and they, with the daughter, Isabel, lived in the East Hudson residence.
Mr. Jenson's sterling character and fine clean manhood needs no comment here as that was well established among his host of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Jenson was a long time member of the Odd Fellows & Rebekahs, Sons of Norway. Whist Club and "500" Club, and enjoyed his affiliations with all the various groups, and all were well represented at his funeral on Friday, March 21, 2 p.m. at Bethel church.
Mr. Jenson's remains lay in state as Jasper Mortuary until Friday noon. His pall bearers were Henry Olson, Alf. Arntson, Oswald J. Solheim, Roy Huddleson, Ernest Erickson and I. E. Hill and he was laid to rest in Willow River Cemetery.
Out of town relatives and friends who came for the funeral were his brother, Olaf of Whitefish, Mont.; Mrs. Axel S. Jenson and son Robert E. Jenson of Superior, Wis.; Mrs. Birger S. Anderson of Minneapolis; Mr. H. Bjeldness, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. H. Bjeldness and sisters, Mrs. H. Skonseng and husband, and Mrs. Ekwald, all of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Reidell and three daughters of Altoona, Wis.; Mr. G. Brateng, Mrs. T. Jorstad and Mr. and Mrs. C. Jorstad of Kindred, North Dakota; Mr. and Mrs. C. Molstad, Mrs. L. Molstad and Mrs. A. Molstad, also of Minneapolis; Mrs. Carl Jahr of Baldwin, Wis. Mr. Jenson is survived by his wife and daughter, Isabel Humphrey, sister, Mrs. J. A. Stayberg, two brothers, Nels Jenson of North Hudson and Olaf Jenson of Whitefish, Montana and numerous nephews and nieces.
Events
| Birth | 4 Oct 1879 | Mo, Nordland, Norway |  | ||
| Christen | 7 Dec 1879 | Mo, Nordland, Norway | | ||
| Emigration | Jun 1898 | Ranen to Hudson, Wisconsin | |||
| Marriage | 12 Apr 1916 | Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin - Mary Johnson | |||
| Marriage | 26 Jul 1931 | Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin - Clara Antoinette Sveen | | ||
| Death | 17 Mar 1947 | Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin | |||
| Burial | Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Willow River Cem |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Johnson (1878 - ) |
| Spouse | Clara Antoinette Sveen (1887 - ) |
| Father | Nils Johan Jenson (1858 - 1934) |
| Mother | Jensine Cathrine Petrusdatter (1848 - ) |
| Sibling | Olaf Peter Jenson (1882 - 1964) |
| Sibling | Karine Marie Jenson (1883 - 1973) |
| Sibling | Axel Zahl Jenson (1885 - 1945) |
| Sibling | Nels Johan Jenson (1886 - 1947) |
Endnotes
1. Den Norske kirke. Nord-Rana prestegjeld (Nordland) (Main Author) , Kirkebøker Genealogical Society of Utah, 0,125,209.
2. Ibid..
3. Hudson Star-Observer, Hudson, Wis., 22 Jan 1953, p6, Obit, Mrs. Jens Jensen.