The son of a baker by trade, Matthew Jensen was born in Schleswig, Denmark on March 4, 1867, and there he attended the common school. To the same school went Margaret Lindberg, who came from a neighboring farm; they met daily and played together. Matthew Jensen was the fourth in a family of seven children; Doretta, Mary, Harvey, Matthew, John, James and Anna, deceased.
Matthew, at the early age of fifteen, started out to make his own living and came to america and California. A stranger in a strange land, ignorant of the customs and the language, and no means or influential friends, it was a tough proposition which faced the lad. But he got a job on a ranch near Watsonville and for eight years worked around on different ranches. When he went to San Louis Obispo and worked for two years. By saving his money he had accumulated funds enough to go into the dairy business on his own account, and with a partner carried on dairying seven years on rented land. The profits were not so good but that an engagement with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company seemed to be a little better and for many years he was in their employ, first as a section hand. three years as nspector the tracks and seven years as section foreman of the Tracy Division. But before this he bought a ranch two miles south of Los Banos and built a home and farm buildings.
The girl he used to go to school with in his native land had come to America five years before, and they were married in Watsonville on November 12, 1892. In 1910 he resigned from the railroad business to devote his time to the little home ranch where he resides in comfort today. There were eight children born to this union; Anna, Mrs C C Anderson of La Center, Wash; Antone E; Eva, Mrs Joseph Ellis of Los Banos; Mark L; James, deceased;Margaret E (Rita Beth) Mrs M J Lane of Livermore; James H; and John Norman. Mrs Jensen passed away on December 30, 1924, aged 54 years, six months and one day, mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mr Jensen is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
John Outcalt's "History of Merced County" page 628
Matthew, at the early age of fifteen, started out to make his own living and came to america and California. A stranger in a strange land, ignorant of the customs and the language, and no means or influential friends, it was a tough proposition which faced the lad. But he got a job on a ranch near Watsonville and for eight years worked around on different ranches. When he went to San Louis Obispo and worked for two years. By saving his money he had accumulated funds enough to go into the dairy business on his own account, and with a partner carried on dairying seven years on rented land. The profits were not so good but that an engagement with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company seemed to be a little better and for many years he was in their employ, first as a section hand. three years as nspector the tracks and seven years as section foreman of the Tracy Division. But before this he bought a ranch two miles south of Los Banos and built a home and farm buildings.
The girl he used to go to school with in his native land had come to America five years before, and they were married in Watsonville on November 12, 1892. In 1910 he resigned from the railroad business to devote his time to the little home ranch where he resides in comfort today. There were eight children born to this union; Anna, Mrs C C Anderson of La Center, Wash; Antone E; Eva, Mrs Joseph Ellis of Los Banos; Mark L; James, deceased;Margaret E (Rita Beth) Mrs M J Lane of Livermore; James H; and John Norman. Mrs Jensen passed away on December 30, 1924, aged 54 years, six months and one day, mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mr Jensen is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
John Outcalt's "History of Merced County" page 628
The son of a baker by trade, Matthew Jensen was born in Schleswig, Denmark on March 4, 1867, and there he attended the common school. To the same school went Margaret Lindberg, who came from a neighboring farm; they met daily and played together. Matthew Jensen was the fourth in a family of seven children; Doretta, Mary, Harvey, Matthew, John, James and Anna, deceased.
Matthew, at the early age of fifteen, started out to make his own living and came to america and California. A stranger in a strange land, ignorant of the customs and the language, and no means or influential friends, it was a tough proposition which faced the lad. But he got a job on a ranch near Watsonville and for eight years worked around on different ranches. When he went to San Louis Obispo and worked for two years. By saving his money he had accumulated funds enough to go into the dairy business on his own account, and with a partner carried on dairying seven years on rented land. The profits were not so good but that an engagement with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company seemed to be a little better and for many years he was in their employ, first as a section hand. three years as nspector the tracks and seven years as section foreman of the Tracy Division. But before this he bought a ranch two miles south of Los Banos and built a home and farm buildings.
The girl he used to go to school with in his native land had come to America five years before, and they were married in Watsonville on November 12, 1892. In 1910 he resigned from the railroad business to devote his time to the little home ranch where he resides in comfort today. There were eight children born to this union; Anna, Mrs C C Anderson of La Center, Wash; Antone E; Eva, Mrs Joseph Ellis of Los Banos; Mark L; James, deceased;Margaret E (Rita Beth) Mrs M J Lane of Livermore; James H; and John Norman. Mrs Jensen passed away on December 30, 1924, aged 54 years, six months and one day, mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mr Jensen is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
John Outcalt's "History of Merced County" page 628
Matthew, at the early age of fifteen, started out to make his own living and came to america and California. A stranger in a strange land, ignorant of the customs and the language, and no means or influential friends, it was a tough proposition which faced the lad. But he got a job on a ranch near Watsonville and for eight years worked around on different ranches. When he went to San Louis Obispo and worked for two years. By saving his money he had accumulated funds enough to go into the dairy business on his own account, and with a partner carried on dairying seven years on rented land. The profits were not so good but that an engagement with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company seemed to be a little better and for many years he was in their employ, first as a section hand. three years as nspector the tracks and seven years as section foreman of the Tracy Division. But before this he bought a ranch two miles south of Los Banos and built a home and farm buildings.
The girl he used to go to school with in his native land had come to America five years before, and they were married in Watsonville on November 12, 1892. In 1910 he resigned from the railroad business to devote his time to the little home ranch where he resides in comfort today. There were eight children born to this union; Anna, Mrs C C Anderson of La Center, Wash; Antone E; Eva, Mrs Joseph Ellis of Los Banos; Mark L; James, deceased;Margaret E (Rita Beth) Mrs M J Lane of Livermore; James H; and John Norman. Mrs Jensen passed away on December 30, 1924, aged 54 years, six months and one day, mourned by a wide circle of friends. Mr Jensen is a Democrat in politics and fraternally is a member of the Woodmen of the World.
John Outcalt's "History of Merced County" page 628
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