When Carolina Jorgenson was born on 3 September 1854, in Hals, Ålborghus, Denmark, her father, Peter Jorgensen, was 38 and her mother, Louise Janine Hansen, was 28. She married James Alexander Kent in 1871, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cache, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 3 February 1936, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
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Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Nels, Alf, Erik, Iver, Jorgen, Dagny, Einer, Helmer, Hjalmer, Holger, Knute, Ove.
Americanized form of Danish or Norwegian Jørgensen and North German Jörgensen (see Jorgensen ), and of the much less common Swedish cognate Jörgensson (rarely Jörgenson). Compare Jergensen and Jergenson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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