Brief Life History of Seier
When Seier Jensen was born on 1 December 1861, in Ravnholt, Tiset, Havreballegård, Denmark, his father, Mads Jensen, was 32 and his mother, Edel Magrethe Rasmussen, was 28. He lived in Tiset, Ning, Århus, Denmark in 1870.
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- Seier Jensen, "Denmark Census, 1870"
- Tiset, Aarhus, Denmark - Birth - Seier Jensen - 1861
- Seier Jensen, "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
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1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Holger, Einer, Jorgen, Bent, Knud, Per, Ove, Morten.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jens, a shortened form of Johannes (see John ). This is the most frequent surname in Denmark. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Jenssen . Compare Jenson 2 and Johnson .
English: variant of Jennison .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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