Biographical Sketches
Andrew P. Jensen
A history of Nebraska would not be complete without mentioning the name of Andrew P. Jensen, who for the past twenty-nine years has been a substantial and progressive citizen, always taking a keen interest in things pertaining to the welfare of his home state and county.
Andrew P. Jensen was born in Denmark, December 11, 1854, a son of Jens Peterson, and by a peculiar Scandinavian custom takes his last name from his father's first. He was fourth in a family of six children, and has two sisters residing in Garfield county, Nebraska, the other children being deceased. The father, Jens Peterson, lives in Ord, Nebraska, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He came to Nebraska in the fall of 1884. The mother died in 1904, in Valley county, Nebraska. Our subject received his education in the schools of his native country, and at the age of fifteen began to learn the carpenter trade, which he finished in due time, and later followed alternately with farming.
On July 21, 1876, Mr. Jensen was united in marriage to Miss Johanna Peterson, also a native of Denmark. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen have had two children, namely: Marie, who is the wife of John Frandsen, has one child, and lives in the state of Montana, and Iner, deceased in 1887 in infancy.
In 1881 Mr. Jensen came with his wife and one daughter to America, locating in Omaha, Nebraska, where he worked at his trade until May, 1884. He then moved his family to Valley county, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land in the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine, township thirty, range fourteen, where he remained until the fall of 1885. Owing to cyclone and hailstorms, there was a total failure of crops, and Mr. Jensen felt the necessity of going back to Omaha, where he could work at his trade.
In July of 1893 he again moved his family on his Valley county farm, where they remained until August 17, 1908, when Mr. Jensen retired from active farming and moved to Ord, where he has a bee-hive factory.
Mr. Jensen is a successful man of affairs, and owns one hundred and sixty acres of good land, which is a fine stock and grain farm, well improved, and has also fourteen acres of timber land.
He is a progressive man, interested in all pertaining to the welfare of his home county and state, and enjoys the respect and esteem of all who know him. Mr. Jensen served as director of his school district, number twelve, for some years.
Source: Transcription from the book, Compendium of History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska, published in 1912; located on the website, Internet Archive (http://archive.org), accessed 19 January 2026.
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