Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . ihe Utah penitentiary for having mar-ried a second wife, and died as the of hardships and exposure sufferedduring his imprisonmnt, Feb. 25, 1891,at his home in Manti, Sanpete county,Utah. Elder Weibye was one of thebest record keepers in the Church, andhis private journals, which are very fullfind , are now on file at theUistorians Ofiice. JKXSKX, Jens !ver, Bishop of El-.^inore Ward, Sevier county, is the sonof Th
Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . ihe Utah penitentiary for having mar-ried a second wife, and died as the of hardships and exposure sufferedduring his imprisonmnt, Feb. 25, 1891,at his home in Manti, Sanpete county,Utah. Elder Weibye was one of thebest record keepers in the Church, andhis private journals, which are very fullfind , are now on file at theUistorians Ofiice. JKXSKX, Jens !ver, Bishop of El-.^inore Ward, Sevier county, is the sonof Thomas C. Jensen and Karen MarieIvi^-rsen. and was born in Jerslev, Hjor-ring amt, Denmark, Aug. 8, 1846. Hewas baptized June 5, 1861. by ElderNiels Moitensen, and ordained an ElderApril 24, 1864. In 1865 his parents,having acepted the gospel, emigratedto America, taking their young children BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA. 819 with them. Jens remained in Den-mark, where he labored as a mission-ary in the Vendsyssel conference tillJune, 1867, when he emigrated to He married Ing-er Jensen, a young ladywhom he had baptized into the Church,prior to leaving for America. Theycrossed the plains with ox-teams andarrived in Salt Lake City Oct. 5, Jensen located in Ephraim, San-pete county, wliere he lived for a num-ber of years and then moved to Rich-field, Sevier county. Later, he becameone of the first settlers of Elsinor-e. In1880-82 he filled a mission to Denmark,where he labored in the Aarhus confer-ence, part of the time as president ofthe same. Elder Jensen has always beenan active worker in the Church, andsince November, 1887, he has presidedas over the Elsinore Ward, ofSevier Stake of Zion. SOREXSEX, John Peter, a promi-nent Elder of the Twenty-first Ward,Salt Lake City, Utah, is the son ofPeter Emil Sorensen and Ane MarieJepsen, and was born Oct. 17, 1837, atVestermark Kjar, near Sonderborg, onthe island of Als, Denmark (now a partof Germany). In his youth h
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