TITLE PAGE. Daughters of Utah Pioneers. 20 [020]. PIONEER NAME- Andrew Jensen BIRTH DATE AND PLACE- Thorsley Parish, H Joiringamt, Denmark. December 11th 1850 DEATH DATE AND PLACE- 1941 FATHER- Christian Jensen MOTHER- Kirsten Andersen Jensen WHO MARRIED AND DATE- Kirsten Marie Mary Pedersen August 30 1875 YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH- Oct 8, 1866 NAME OF COMPANY- WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE- WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE- Marco Orton CAMP NAME- Mt. Joy CAMP HISTORIAN- Bertie Smith COMPANY NAME- Morgan [County] HISTORIAN- Dena Rich SOURCE OF INFORMATION- SIGNATURE OF AUTHOR OR OWNER OF THIS HISTORY- I\ ·\ ANDREW JENSON WAS A LATTER-DAY SA.INT CONVERT, UTAH PIONEER, HISTORIAN, WRITER, TRAVELER, LECTURER, NEWSPAPERMAN, GENEALOGIST, TRANSLATOR, MISSIONARY, MISSION PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT OF A SEVENTIES QUORUM, AND VICE CHAIRMAN AND SECRETARY OF THE OLD FOLKS CENTRAL COMMITTEE. HIS MONUMENTAL WORK, ENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LA TIER-DAY SAINTS, PUBLISHED IN 1941 CONTAINED INFORMATION ON PRACTICALLY EVERY CHURCH UNIT IN THE WORLD AS OF THE END OF 1930. ANDREW JENSON WAS BORN IN THORSLEY PARISH, HJORRINGAMT, DENMARK, DECEMBER 11, 1850, THE SON OF CHRISTIAN JENSEN AND KIRSTEN ANDERSEN JENSEN. HIS PARENTS WERE NUMBERED AMONG THE FIRST LDS CONVERTS FROM THAT LAND. FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE 'EHEIR DEPARTURE TO UTAH, HIS PARENTS HAD BEEN MAKING PREPARATIONS TO IMMIGRATE TO UTAH. BUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY TO TAKE ALL THEIR CHILDREN WITH THEM, THEY EVENTUALLY MADE THE DECISION TO LEA VE THEIR OLDER SONS (JENS AND ANDREW) IN DENMARK UNTIL ARRANGEMENTS COULD BE MADE FOR THEM TO COME. IT WAS A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE BOYS SINCE FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD THEY HAD BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO GATHERING IN ZION. ANDREW, ONLY FIFfEEN, DECIDED HE WOULD EARN ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY ms OWN WAY. KNOWING THAT AS A FARMHAND BE COULD NEVER MAKE ENOUGH, BE DECIDED TO GO INTO BUSINESS ON HIS OWN. BE INVESTED THE FEW (RIGSDALERS) (RIXDOLLARS), I BAD TO LOOK THIS UP IN THE DICTIONARY. THEY ARE SMALL SILVER COINS FROM SCANDINAVIA, HE BAD INTO OLEOGRAPB PICTURES ( A CBROMOLlfflOGRAPB IMITATING AN OIL PAINTING) IMPORTED FROM GERMANY, THAN TRAVELED AROUND SELLING THEM. BY REINVESTING HIS MONEY, BEW AS ABLE TO RAISE THE MONEY TO ACCOMPANY HIS PARENTS AND YOUNGER BROTHER WHEN THEY LEFT FOR THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ON MAY 8, 1866. AT HAMBURG, GERMANY, THEY BOARDED THE SAILING VESSEL KENILWORffl THAT DEPARTED ON MAY 2S WITH A COMPANY OF 684 SCANDINAVIAN SAINTS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF ELDER SAMUAL L. SPRAGUE, A RETURNING MISSIONARY. THEIR SHIP ARRIVED IN NEW YORK CITY ON JULY 17 AND FROM THERE THEY WENT BY STEAMER TO NEW HA VEN, CONNECTICUT THEN BY RAIL VIA MONTREAL, DETROIT, CHICAGO AND HANNIBAL TO ST JOSEPH MISSOURI. TH ERE, THEY BOARDED A RIVER STEAMER AND TRAVELED ABOUT 1SO MILES UP THE MISSOURI RIVER TO WYOMING, A SMALL VILLAGE ABOUT SIX MILES NORffl OF NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA. ON AUG 8, 1866 THE JENSEN FAMILY WAS ASSIGNED TO CAPTAIN ANDREW H. SCOTT'S CHURCH TRAIN OF ABOUT FIFfY OXEN-DRAWN WAGONS AND ON AUGUST 81866 THEY STARTED THEIR JOURNEY OF ABOUT ONE mousAND MILES OVER PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS. IT TOOK THEM EXACTLY TWO MONTHS •. THEIR ACTUAL ARRIVAL IN SALT LAKE CITY TOOK PLACE ON OCTOBER 8, 1866, FIVE MONTHS TO THE DAY FROM THE TIME THAT THEY BAD LEFT THEIR DOME IN THE LITTLE CITY OF SABY, DENMARK. THE FAMILY SPENT A SHORT TIME IN SALT LAKE THEN ESTABLISHED RESIDENCE IN PLEASANT GROVE, WHERE ANDREW WAS EMPLOYED FOR A TIME WORKING ON FARMS, GRADING ON RAILWAYS AND PERFORMING OTHER MANUAL LABOR. DISSATISFIED Wlffl THAT TYPE OF WORK AND FEELING THE URGE TO WRITE, HE CONCEIVED THE IDEA OF TRANSLATING INTO DANISH THE LIFE OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH, BASED ON THE HISTORY OF THE PROPHET PUBLISHED·I N THE MILLENNIAL STAR, SO THAT THOSE OF DANISH DESCENT COULD ENJOY IT. HE BEGAN THE PUBLICATION OF JOSEPH SMiffl'S LEVNETSWB IN MONTHLY PORTIONS THAT BE SOLD FOR TEN CENTS A COPY. IT WOULD BE THE FIRST BOOK PUBLISHED IN UTAH IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE. HE LATER PUBLISHED A MONTHLY MAGAZINE IN DANISH ENTITLED MORGENSTJERNEN, WHICH WAS ISSUED FROM 1882 TO 1885 WHEN HE COMMENCED THE PUBLICATION OF A SIMILAR MAGAZINE IN ENGLISH ENTITLED " HISTORICAL RECORD." JI IN 1878 ELDER JENSON BECAME ASSISTANT EDITOR AND LATER EDITOR OF BIKUBEN, A NEWSPAPER IN THE DANISH·NORWEIGIAN LANGUAGE PUBLISHED IN SAL~LAKE CITY IN THE INTEREST OF THE CHURCH. HE ALSO PUBLISHED CHURCH CHRONOLOGY AND LATER STILL, THREE VOLUMES OF THE LDS BIOGRAPIDCAL ENCYCLOPEDIA AND OTHER WORKS. ANDREW JENSON'S IDSTORICAL WORK FOR THE CHURCH BEGAN IN 1889 WHEN HE EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO CHURCH LEADERS TO DEVOTE HIS LIFE TO THE CAUSE OF CHURCH HISTORY, OFFERING HIS SERVICES "WITH OR WITHOUT ANDY COMPENSATION". AWARE THAT HISTORICAL DETAIL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF LDS COMMUNITIES WAS PRACTICALLY NON·[EXISTENT AND THAT MANY OLO. TIMERS INVOLVED IN THE FOUNDING OF THESE SE'ITLEMENTS WERE ALREADY, OR SOON WOULD BE GONE FROM THE EARTH, PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF URGED ELDER JENSON TO VISIT THE VARIOUS STAKES, WARDS AND MISSIONS AND GATHER msTORICAL DATA. IN 1892 HE BECAME ASSOCIATED WITH THE LDS IDSTORIAN'S OFFICE AND WAS SUSTAINED AS ASSISTANT CHURCH msTORIAN IN 1898. DURING THE FORTY YEARS THAT HEW AS AFFILIATED WITH THE IDSTORIAN'S OFFICE, HE SUPERVISED THE COMPILATION OF ABOUT EIGHT HUNDRED LARGE MANUSCRIPT VOLUMES OF HISTORY PERTAINING TO THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND PROGRESS OF VIRTUALLY ALL OF THE TOWNS AND CITIES IN UTAH. ANDREW JENSON FILLED A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT MISSIONS FOR THE CHURCH. DURING ONE OF THEM, FROM 1909 TO 1912, HE PRESIDED OVER THE SCANDINAVIAN MISSION AND EDITED SKANDINA VIENS STJERNE, DOCUMENTING THE ORGANIZATION OF THAT MISSION. IN 1879 WHILE FILLING HIS SECOND MISSION TO DENMARK, HE WAS CALLED TO PRESIDE OVER THE FIRST YMMIA ORGANIZED IN A FOREIGN LAND, SPECIFICALLY THAT OF THE COPENHAGEN BRANCH. IT HAS BEEN ESTIMATED THAT HE SPENT AT LEAST TWELVE YEARS OF ms LIFE A WAY FROM HOME ENGAGED IN MISSIONARY AND RESEARCH WORK, TRAVELING OVER EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND MILES (CIRCUMNAVIGATING THE GLOBE TWICE) AND VISITING ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. HIS FOUR SONS ALSO FILLED MISSIONS, TWO OF THEM TO SCANDANAVIA, ONE TO ENGLAND, AND ANOTHER TO SOUTH AFRICA. HE MET ms FIRST WIFE, KIRSTEN MARIE "MARY" PEDERSEN WHILE SERVING A MISSION IN DENMARK BUT DID NOT COURT HER UNTIL HE HAD RETURNED FROM HIS MISSION. SHE WAS BAPTIZED MAY 24, 1873 AND IMMIGRATED TO UTAH. THEY WERE MARRIED ON AUGUST 30 1875. THEY RETURNED TO PLEASANT GROVE, WHERE HE HAD BOUGHT A PARCEL OF LAND. HE HAD SOLD HIS OX TEAM TO HIS BROTHER BEFORE GOING ON HIS MISSION BUT THEY WERE RETURNED TO mM INSTEAD OF PAYMENT, SO HE WAS ABLE TO HAUL ROCKS AND EVERYTHING ELSE NECESSARY TO BUILD THEIR HOUSE. TWO SISTERS, EMMA AND BERTHA HOWELL HAD JOINED THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND IN 1885. AFTER IMMIGRATING TO UTAH WITH THEIR MOTHER, THEY MADE A HOME ON SECOND WEST IN SLC. ONE DAY THE ELDEST DAUGHTER EMMA, BECAME SERIOUSLY ILL. ANDREW JENSON WHO LIVED TWO DOORS NORTH, WAS CALLED UPON TO ADMINISTER TO HER. AFTER THAT BLESSING, THE GRATEFUL EMMA RECOVERED AND A FRIENDSHIP DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSEHOLDS. A PLURAL MARRIAGE BETWEEN ANDREW JENSON AND EMMA HOWELL TOOK PLACE ON DECEMBER 10, 1886 BUT HAD TO BE KEPT SECRET SINCE SHEW AS HIS SECOND WIFE. HIS FIRST WIFE, KIRSTEN HAD BEEN ILL WITH TUBERCULOSIS. SHE PASSED A WAY ON JANUARY 3 1887. EMMA WAS THEN HIS LAWFUL WIFE. EMMA'S YOUNGER SISTER BERTHA AND THEIR MOTHER BECAME A PART OF THE JENSON HOUSEHOLD AND HE PROPOSED TO HER. THEY WERE MARRIED ON JULY 18, 1888. THE KIND AND GENTLE BERTHA HAD BEEN A HELPMATE TO HER HUSBAND IN EVERY WAY. NOT ONLY WAS SHE A GRACIOUS LITTLE LADY BUT AN EXCELLENT COOK AND TRAVELING COMPANION TO A MAN WHO HAD CIRCLED THE GLOVE SEVERAL TIMES IN HIS WORK FOR THE CHURCH. SHE HAD ENCOURAGED HIM AND EVEN HELPED SUPPORT HIM DURING HIS MISSIONARY EFFORTS. WHEN ANDREW JENSON DIED IN 1941 NEAR HIS NINETY-FIRST YEAR, HE LEFT A HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH UNIT FROM ITS BEGJNNING TO 1930. DURING THE FIFTY YEARS OF HIS RECORD GATHERING AND WRITING ACTIVITY, HE HAD TRAVELED MORE THAN 750,000 MILES AND CHANNELED THOUSANDS OF PRECIOUS MANUSCRIPTS INTO THE CHURCH ARCHIVES.