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 . e age of fourteen,and followed a sea-faring life for sev-eral years. In 1859 he embraced theBaptist faith, but shortly afterwardhe became acquainted with the doc-trines of the Latter-day Saints. He,however, went to sea again, but becom- 586 LATTER-DAY SAINT Ing- convinced of the truth of the gos-pel, he made it a matter of prayer thatthe way might be opened up for himto return. He was unexpectedly re-leased from the service, and ret
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 . e age of fourteen,and followed a sea-faring life for sev-eral years. In 1859 he embraced theBaptist faith, but shortly afterwardhe became acquainted with the doc-trines of the Latter-day Saints. He,however, went to sea again, but becom- 586 LATTER-DAY SAINT Ing- convinced of the truth of the gos-pel, he made it a matter of prayer thatthe way might be opened up for himto return. He was unexpectedly re-leased from the service, and returned toCopenhagen, and on April 28, 1860, theday after he got ashore, he was bap-tized by H. C. Jensen, and confirmedMay 6, 1860, by Elder A. Petersen. Ata conference held in Copenhagen, , 1860, he was called to the office of aPriest and shortly after set apart tolabor as a missionary on West was ordained an Elder Jan. 7, 1861,by Niels Wilhelmsen. Being called todo service in the navy, he was re-leased from his mission Feb. 25, 1861,and ordered to the naval ship HolgerDanske. His service, however, wasof short duration, for he was released. from further duty a month later. April26, 1861, he was again called into themissionary field, and appointed to pre-side over Thorslunde branch, on Sjael-land; he continued his labors withoutinterruption until February, 1862, whenhe was released, with permission toemigrate to Zion. Feb. 1, 1862, hemarried Hansine K. Jensen, who wasborn in Copenhagen July 27, 1838, andin whose family he had been a frequentvisitor during his misionary sailed from Hamburg, April 21,1862, on the ship Athenia, which ar-rived in New York June 6th. Thencethe journey was continued to Florence,Neb., from which point the trip acrossthe plains was commenced, in an ox-train that arrived in Salt Lake City in September following. The Kuhrefamily went to Ephraim, Sanpetecounty, where they arrived Oct. 4, 1862,and where their first child, the su
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