Frederik Marcussen Jensen

Brief Life History of Frederik

When Frederik Marcussen Jensen was born on 24 March 1844, in Skørringe, Ålholm, Denmark, his father, Marcus Jensen, was 40 and his mother, Ane Margretha Rasmussen Lindhartsen, was 35. He had at least 1 daughter with Mrs. Frederike Marcussen Jensen. He lived in Skørringe, Fuglse, Maribo, Denmark for about 10 years and Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 11 June 1940, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Riverton, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Frederik Marcussen Jensen
1844–1940
Mrs. Frederike Marcussen Jensen
1842–
Anna Marie Jensen
1870–1937

Sources (16)

  • Frederik Mariusen in household of Marius Jensen, "Denmark Census, 1850"
  • Frederike Marcussen Jensen birth and christening 1844 Skorringe, Maribo, Denmark
  • Franklin Johnson, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Alf, Britt. German Hans, Kurt, Otto.

Danish, Norwegian, North German, and Dutch: patronymic from the personal name Marcus (see Mark 1). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Markussen .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Story Highlight

1860: "John Taylor Company" Marcus Jensen, wife Ane Margretha and 3 children are in this company.

History of this company: Called the Iowa Company, this company actually consisted of English and Danish emigrants who had settled temporarily in various places in the United States, but especially in …

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