When Jørgen Larsen was born on 8 September 1840, in Tversted, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark, his father, Lars Christian Mikkelsen, was 40 and his mother, Sørine Sørensen, was 20. He married Dorothea Johansen about 1874, in Tversted, Horns, Hjørring, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died about 4 December 1905, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in San Francisco, California, United States.
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The Casino Theatre was built as an entertainment center by Georg Carstensen but was converted into a theatre in 1848. After many years of never gaining popularity, it was closed in 1937 and demolished in 1960.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
The Copenhagen Waterworks was the first waterworks in Denmark and served the community until 1951. It was one of the first buildings to be built outside Copenhagen's old city walls.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Lars, Nels, Niels, Sven, Thor, Knud, Nils, Per, Jorgen, Alf, Bjorn.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Lars, an equivalent of Lawrence . This is also an Americanized form of the cognate Larssen. Compare Larson 1, Larrison , and Lawson 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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