Fresno County, California Biographies

Source: History of Fresno County, California, with biographical sketches of 
the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with 
its growth and development from the early days to the present (1919)

History By Paul E. Vandor 
Illustrated, Complete In Two Volumes 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1919
 
Notes: Missing+page1185-1186

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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L. M. JENSEN. � An industrious and experienced farmer and a broadly 
developed viticulturist and horticulturist, making a specialty of raisin culture, 
is L. M. Jensen, who was born at Fyen, Denmark, December 10, 1877, the son 
of a farmer near Bogense, where he was reared and educated in the public 
school. When he was only four years of age his mother died, and when he 
was six he was thrown on his own resources, and thus made his own way 
through the schooling period until he was fourteen, and from that time on. 
Through the return of a friend, Hans Frank, he became acquainted with 
the wonderful land by the Pacific and its resources, and concluded to take 
the momentous step of leaving home, crossing the wide ocean, and trying his 
fortunes in the New World. On April 28, 1902, he arrived in Fresno County, 
and immediately found employment at ranching in the vicinity of Selma. 
Soon he bought a small farm near Parlier, consisting of about twelve acres, at 
the price of $600. This he set out to vines, kept it a couple of years, and 
then sold it for $1,250. He continued to work on farms and with teams, 
and leasing some land of D. C. Sample, he tried his hand at grain-farming. 

In 1913, Mr. Jensen bought a vineyard of seventy-two acres in the Gray 
Colony, which he improved considerably and built upon. He set out thirty 
acres as a vineyard with muscat, Emperor and malaga grapes, and thirty 
acres in figs of the White Adriatic kind, while he had ten acres of peach 
orchards. He has two pumping plants, and uses two engines for pumping. 

Like other wide-awake specialists in his field, he is a member of the California 
Associated Raisin Company, and the California Peach Growers, Inc. 

Near Academy, Air. Jensen was married to Miss Carrie M. Frikka, a 
native of Kolding, Denmark, by whom he has had four children: Elna Marie, 
Louis Christian, Clarence James, and Ann Christene. For some time past 
Mr. Jensen has been a trustee of the Gray school district, and in that capacity 
has done good public service for the community. In national politics he gen- 
erally follows the standards of the Democratic party, while in fraternal life 
he is active principally in the Dania in Fresno and the Clovis Camp of the 
Woodmen of the World.