A LIFE SKETCH OF FREDERIK NIELSEN JENSEN and ANNA FREDERIKA  PETERSEN Parents of Erastus Jensen by Katie Jensen Nielsen Frederik Nielsen Jensen was born 19 Feb. 1831 in Store Karleby, Copenhagen, Denmark to Jens Nielsen and Ane Marie Frederiksen. Frederik embraced the Gospel in Denmark when a young man of [eighteen] years of age. He was a spiritual man and had a strong desire to come to America. He spent a lifetime in the service of the Lord; he fulfilled the words of Lord Byron,” the deepest law of the Spirit, is that men become like that which they most love.” Frederik was an ambitious young man. He was a fine builder. At the age of [fourteen] he learned to build fine things with his hands….furniture, homes, and other things. He worked very hard at his skill and at the age of [twenty-two] had earned enough to fulfill his desire to come to America. He left his parents and brothers and sisters and sailed on the ship “Forest Monarch Jan. 16, 1853 from Liverpool, England. He traveled with E. Forsberg’s Company to Salt Lake City. Grandfather Frederik arrived in Logan, Utah in the early spring of 1853 to help build the early settlement of Logan. He helped layout the streets, canals and early schools and buildings of worship in that city. Money was [scarce] and work was very plentiful. His first marriage was to Anna Seamonsen….from this marriage there were [two] children. His second marriage to Johanah Petersen brought [four] children. [On] June 15, 1867 Frederik Jensen married Anna Fredrika Petersen, [twenty-one] years of age, who was a younger sister to Johanah Petersen the [second] wife. To this marriage there were born nine children, six boys and three girls. Erastus, my father was the eldest son and also the oldest in the family. Frederik built a modest home of white brick on a [four] acre lot, at 780 North 2nd East in Logan. This is just a block south of where the Logan Jr. High School is now built. Grandfather was a tall well built man of near 6 ft. He was dark complexioned, almost black hair, and dark attractive blue eyes. He usually wore a ‘moustache.’ Grandmother was a very feminine woman as I remember her, she was of small features about 5’4” and also dark complexioned with blue clear eyes. Grandfather, like all other early settlers in Logan had two or [three] cows, chickens, and usually raised a couple of pigs so there would be meat of a variety and milk, enough to make cheese. In the winter there were vegetables, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, stored in ‘Pits’ that were arranged in the garden plot where the vegetables had been grown during the warm summer days. The storage pits were made by digging the soil out about [three] feet in a circle, then filling this with clean straw about [one foot] thick and piling carrots in on pit, potatoes, parsnips and cabbage in rows the same way, then covering.