Martin Theodore Jensen

	Martin Theodore Jensen Trinity Dates: 1902 - 1909 Born: January 8, 1870 in Rodstrup, Skamby Parish, Odense County, Denmark. Parents: Jens Mortensen and Ane Marie Alexandersen. Died: August 11, 1940 in Los Angeles, California. Buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Married: Marie Thomsen in 1899. (She was a sister of Rev. N. P. N. Lang's wife, Kirstine Marion Thomsen.) Ordained: June 6, 1899 in Hutchinson, Minnesota by Rev. G.B. Christiansen. Came to America in June 1891.
Dates and places of service:
1891 - 1896	Student at Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska.
1897	Studied at the Danish Lutheran College in Elk Horn, Iowa.
1898	Studied at Luther Theological Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1899 - 1901	Pastor at Vor Frelsers (Our Savior's) Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in Staplehurst, Nebraska.
1902 - 1909	Pastor at Brorson Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church near Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Owatonna, Minnesota, and Daniae Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of East Prairie, Minnesota, and Saint Petri Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemond Township, Steele County, Minnesota, and Saint Ansgar's Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church near Geneva, Minnesota.
1909 - 1912	Pastor at Bethanie Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Webster Grove, Missouri.
1912 - 1919	Pastor at Fremont Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fremont, Nebraska, and Trefoldighed(Trinity) Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fremont Bluffs, Nebraska.
1919 - 1928	Pastored in Selma and Petaluma, California.
1928 - 1933	Last pastorate was at Hampton, Nebraska.
1933 - ?	Served in the Utah Mission Field in Salt Lake City, Utah after retirement.

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