When Herbert Jensen was born on 10 February 1862, in Norway, his father, Nels Carl Jensen, was 25 and his mother, Elen Karine Jacobsdatter, was 24. He married Ida Mathilda Hansen on 15 December 1892, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Grønland, Gamle Oslo, Oslo, Norway in 1865. He died on 25 November 1950, in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States.
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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 .
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