Pioneer History Hans Peter Jorgensen (1852 – 1936) & Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen (1863 – 1920)

1. Hans Peter Jorgensen (1852 – 1937) &
Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen (1863 – 1920)
Hans Peter Jorgensen
Birth: 11 September 1856 Svendborg, Denmark
Death: 03 Mar 1937 Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Burial: 6 Mar 1936 Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
MARRIEDL 28 November 1894 Manti, Sanpete, Utah
Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen
Birth: 31 Jan 1863 Aalborg, Denmark
Death: 1 Oct, 1920 Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Burial: Oct 1920 Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
First settled in Fountain, Green (1894 – abt 1900)
About 1900 relocated to Mount Pleasant
CHILDREN
Pearl Emilie Jorgensen Birth 24 MAY 1896 Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah
Arthur Lorenzo Jorgensen Birth 17 Mar 1899 Fountain Green, Sanpete, UT
Holger Wilford Jorgensen Birth 18 October 1901 Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Luella Marie Jorgensen Birth 24 March 1904 Mt Pleasant Sanpete Utah
J Alfred Jorgensen Birth 4 November 1906 Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah

2. Hans Peter Jorgensen’s Father, Mother & Sister emigrated from Denmark during 1873:
Father, Neils Christian Jorgensen (1833 -1911) and Mother, Kjeistina Erickson Jorgensen (1821 – 1894) and
Sister Petrea.
EMIGRATION: Hans Peter Jorgensen
Hans Peter Jorgensen (1856-1936) at the age of 16, emigrated during 1872
from Denmark with two brother, Lars Christian and Eric Christian,
Lars Christian Jorgensen (1853-1892) settled at Emery, Emery Co., Utah
Eric Christian Jorgensen (1860-1910) settled at Colonial Diaz, Chihuahua, Mexico
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Liverpool to New York on the Minnesota (4
Sep 1872 - 16 Sep 1872)
PASSENGER LIST
 Jorgensen, Hans Peter ;
 Jorgensen, Erik Christen ;
 Jorgensen, Lars Christen
Ship Name “Minnesota”
Departure 4 Sep 1872 from Liverpool
Arrival 16 Sep 1872 at New York
Source BMR, Book #1041, pp. 232-252 (FHL #025,692); Customs #1013 (FHL #175,721); SMR, 1872 (FHL #025,696)
Source: BMR, p. 245; SMR, p. 47; Aalborg Conference. Database: Mormon Immigration Index (1840-1890)
http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:account/id:911/keywords:Hans+Peter+J
orgensen
A Compilation of General Voyage Notes
". . . On Friday, Aug. 30, 1872, at 1 o'clock p.m., a company of 260 emigrating Saints sailed from
Copenhagen, per steamer 'Cato,' accompanied by the following returning missionaries: Peter O. Thomassen,
Christian Madsen, Arne C. Grue and Mons Andersen. On the 2nd of Sept. this company arrived at Hull,
England, where the emigrants were served supper at Mr. Lazarus' hotel, and the following day they took [a]
train to Liverpool, arriving there on the 3rd at 11 a.m. The sisters were at once conveyed by omnibus to the
steamer 'Minnesota,' while the brethren assisted in the handling of the baggage. At 9 p.m. all went on board,
and the following day.
(Wednesday, Sept. 4th) the ship “Minnesota” sailed from Liverpool, with 602 Saints, Elder George W.
Wilkins having charge of the company. No deaths occurred at sea, but the company was increased by the arrival
of two babies. On the Sept 16th, 1872 the steamer anchored near Castle Garden, New York, and the next day
(Sept. 17th ) the emigrants went ashore. On the 18th they boarded the train and traveled via Pittsburg,
Chicago, Omaha, etc., to Salt Lake City, Utah. One child died on the train and was buried in Chicago.
Halfway between Ogden and Salt Lake City the company was met by President Brigham Young, Elder Daniel
H. Wells and other leading men, who immediately went through the cars, bidding their brethren and sisters from
afar a hearty welcome to Zion. On their arrival in Salt Lake City, Sept. 26, 1872
, the emigrants were taken to the Music Hall, where a sumptuous dinner was awaiting them. In course of the
two following days the company was dissolved, friends and relatives taking the newcomers to temporary
homes. . . ." HSM pp.212-13

3. http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/legacy-sacrifice-missionaries-scandinavia-1872-94/i-j
While waiting for his parents to arrive, Hans lived in Huntsville, Weber County, then Richfield, Sevier
County, and finally Fountain Green, Sanpete County. Hans parents (Neils Christian Jorgensen &
Kjeistina Erickson Jorgensen) arrived during July 1873.
He married Celia Christensen in 1880. However, this marriage ended in divorce. Hans remained in
Fountain Green after the divorce. Hans was granted citizenship on 22 September 1883. In Fountain
Green, he served as president of the YMMIA. He also served in the Thirty-seventh Quorum of the
Seventy
Hans accepted a mission call to Scandinavia in 1892. He was set apart for the mission by John Henry
Smith. He arrived in Copenhagen on 6 June 1892 and was assigned to labor in the Århus Conference and
later in the Copenhagen Conference. Returning during 1894
Returning Missionary Jorgensen, Hans Peter
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Glasgow to New York on the Ethiopia (Departed: 26 Jul 1894)
Glasgow to New York on the Ethiopia (26 Jul 1894)
British Mission Manuscript History
Voyage Entry
Another company of emigrating Saints (44
souls) left Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19,
[1894], accompanied by the following Elders,
who had performed missionary labors in
Scandinavia: Amel Burnett Jensen of
Richfield, Hans Peter Jorgensen of Fountain
Green, John W. Dehlin of Mt. Pleasant, James
Andersen and John Johnson of Logan, and
Ludvig S. Hansen of Salt Lake City.” [HSM,
337]
“Thursday, July 26, 1894. The ship ‘Ethiopia’ sailed from Glasgow, with 66 Saints on board, bound for
Utah. The company consisted of 54 emigrating Saints (10 from the British, 43 from the Scandinavian and
1 from the Swiss and German Mission), 1 returning visitor and 11 returning Elders, namely, Peter S.
Condie, Gustave A. Iversen, Andreas Johansen, Carl M. Lavensen, August Malmquist, Emil [Amel] E.
Jensen, Hans P. Jorgensen, John W. Dehlin, James Anderson, John Johnson, and Ludvig S. Hansen.
returning visitor was James E. Talmage. (Orig. Doc.)” [BMMH, 1894].
No passenger list for emigrating saints (emigrating LDS members)
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EMIGRATION OF Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen (1863 -1920)
NO DOCUMENTATION, BUT: It is very possible that Hans Peter Jorgensen meet his future wife Ane
Marie Kirstine Olsen while serving a mission during 1892-94 in Denmark. It is very possible the Olsen
family accompanied him back to Utah during July 1894. (43 Scandinavian LDS Member accompanied
the returning missionaries).
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M5XH-SQY
– NO PASSENGER LIST) Refer to 1910 Census below: Anna Marie Jergensen Immigration Year 1894

4. Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen (1863 -1920)
PARENTS
Janus or James Olsen (1836-1885)
Birth: 29 March 1836
Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Death: 22 August 1885
Norresundby, Aalborg, Denmark
Marriage: 10 or 16 December 1862
Norresundby, Aalborg, Denmark
Larsine Sorensen (1839-1913)
Birth: 4 September 1839
Norresundby, Aalborg, Denmark
Death: 8 October 1913
Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
12 Children (6 Children died before age 4. one at age 10, one at age 14
and one at age 70 died in Denmark).
Mother PLUS 2 daughters and 1 son emigrated from Demark to Utah, USA
Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen (1863 Aalborg -1920 Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah) Age 57,
Albert Edvard Olsen (1864 Aalborg -1878 Aalborg ) Age 14
Jacobine Henrietta Olsen (1865 Aalborg -1940 Aalborg ) Age 70
Olsen (1868 Aalborg -1868 Aalborg) Age <1
Emilie Velhelmine Caroline Olsen (1869 Aalborg -1876 Aalborg) Age 10
Olsen (1872 Aalborg -1872 Aalborg) Age <1
Christian Olsen (1873 Aalborg -1876 Aalborg) Age 3

5. Olsen (1875 Aalborg -1875) Age <1
Christian Emil Olsen (1876 Aalborg -1942 San Francisco, California ) Age 66
Emilie Elsine Olsen (1877-78 Aalborg -1958 Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah) Age 81
Soren Henrick Olsen (1879 Aalborg -1880) Age 1
Alfred Olsen (1880-1880 Aalborg) Age <1
Anna Marie Kristine Olsen Jorgensen (1863 – 1920), emigrated from Denmark during 1894 with her
Mother, Larsine Sorensen Olsen (1839 – 1913), and sister, Emilie Elsine (1877-1958) and brother
Christian Emil Olsen (1876 – 1942).
Hans Peter Jorgensen & Ane Marie Kristine Olsen were MARRIED 28 November 1894)
The family first settle at Fountain Green, Utah
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F8PW-VBM
Mother, Larsine Sorensen, lived with Hans Perter, Ane Marie Kirstine and their family lived in Fountain
Green & Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Ancestral File: afn: 2P3Z-RR https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M756-TSJ
Her sister Emilie Elsine Olsen meet James Christopher Fechser of Mount Pleasant, Utah and they were
married on 19 December 1900 at Manti, Sanpete, Utah. They lived at Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Ancestral File:
afn: 2P3Z-PF https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M756-T9J
Her brother, Kristian Emil Olsen (1876 – 1942), apparently went on to San Francisco, California
He was registered for the WWI Draft in San Francisco during 1917-18 and lived there until his death
17 June 1942.
Birth/ christening https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYLZ-R4D
World War I Draft https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZVB-ZRW
Ancestral File: afn: 2P40-NC https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/M756-TZV
Mount Pleasant to Fountain Green about 15 Miles

6. Mount Pleasant City, Utah http://sanpete.com/pages/mtpleasant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_Utah From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Pleasant is a city in Sanpete County, Utah, in the United States. Mt.
Pleasant is known for its 19th-century main street buildings, for being home to
Wasatch Academy, and for being the largest city in the northern half of the
county.
History
After taking lumber out of Pleasant Creek Canyon in late 1851, a band of
Mormon colonists from Manti led by Madison D. Hambleton returned in the
spring of 1852 to establish the Hambleton Settlement near the present site of
Mt. Pleasant. During the Walkara (Walker) Indian War, the small group of
settlers relocated to Spring Town (Spring City) and later to Manti for
protection. The old settlement was burned down by local Native Americans, so
when a large colonizing party from Ephraim and Manti returned to the area in
1859, a new, permanent townsite was laid out in its present location—one
hundred miles south of Salt Lake City and twenty-two miles northeast of Manti.
Among the founding settlers were Mormon converts from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and the eastern
United States. By 1880, at which time Mt. Pleasant was the county's largest city, with a population of 2,000,
more than 72 percent of its married adults were foreign born. This ethnic diversity had an important impact on
village life during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For decades, five languages were commonly
spoken in town, creating confusing and sometimes amusing communication problems.
The settlement and development of Mt. Pleasant followed the typical pattern for Mormon towns of the period.
A square-shaped townsite was surveyed (eventually containing about 100 city blocks), lots were drawn, and the
land was distributed among the population. Under the direction of James Russell Ivie (1802–1866), a fort of
adobe walls and log cabins was built. Pleasant Creek ran through the fort and farming was done outside of its
walls. Around the time that Ivie was killed in the Ute Black Hawk War, by Indians who had declined to
participate in the settlement of the earlier Wakara War, the town had acquired its present name. By the time the
final peace treaty with the Indians was signed in Bishop Seeley's house on Main Street in 1872, bringing to an
end to this conflict, many settlers had already erected homesteads outside of the fort. Although the townsite is
large in scale, the density is relatively low due to the original layout allowing for only four lots per block.
Mormon influence was felt in all religious, political, economic, educational, and social aspects of life in early
Mt. Pleasant. Self-sufficiency was a virtue and home-grown and home-manufactured food, clothing, and
furnishings were far more available than rarely found imported items. Some of the first industries included
tanning, shoemaking, blacksmithing, basket making, and freighting. Eventual modernization brought such
improvements as the Deseret Telegraph in 1869, The Pyramid Newspaper in 1890 and a telephone system in
1891.
Sawmills and flour mills were built, irrigation systems were dug, and a municipal government was created to
oversee public laws and improvements. The city was incorporated in 1868, a year after the first co-operative
store was founded, starting what became a burgeoning commercial district. Upon the arrival of the Rio Grande
Western Railway in 1890, both the local population and the city's prosperity increased dramatically. By 1900
Mt. Pleasant had grown to nearly 3,000 persons, the largest size reached by any city in Sanpete County to that
time, and the city had earned one of its nicknames, "Hub City."
The town's newfound wealth became immediately apparent in a building boom which saw the replacement of
small, wood-frame commercial buildings with much more impressive, architect-designed stone and brick
structures such as the 1888 Sanpete County Co-op, the Gentile store which competed with the ZCMI the

7. Mormon store.. The resulting Main Street district is today so architecturally distinctive that the two-block-long
area has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Equally striking were the Victorian churches,
schools, and residences which replaced the simpler adobe and log buildings of the pioneer period.
Mt. Pleasant has long been considered the most diverse city in the county, in part because of the liberal
Mormons and the Protestant groups which challenged the dominant Mormon population in the late nineteenth
century. Liberal Hall, built on Main Street in 1875, and Wasatch Academy, Utah's oldest surviving private
boarding school, established by Presbyterians in the same year, remain as visible and functional testaments of
the city's historic and ongoing diversity. Mt. Pleasant has been culturally diverse as well, with numerous
musical, theatrical, and artistic groups, varied local industries, secret societies and saloons, and one of Utah's
largest local historic societies, founded in 1909 and still active.
Hans Peter Jorgensen (1852 – 1936) & Kjeistina Ericksen (1821 - 1894) & Family relocated from
Fountain Green to Mount Pleasant about 1900
 1934 Hans Peter Jorgensen
Mount Pleasant The twentieth century brought continued changes and
improvements to the face of the "Queen City," its most popular nickname.
The commercial and residential districts continued to fill with fine buildings
bespeaking the prosperity of the community. By 1912 the first high school--
North Sanpete High School—had been completed. The year 1912 also
brought the Armory Hall, while the Elite Theater was constructed as a
"fireproof" building in 1913. It burned down seven decades later, 1982. In
1917 a fine Carnegie Library was built in a modern architectural style. The
Marie Hotel was erected in 1920 and a large cheese factory came on the
scene in 1930, the same year that bus service came to town.
Mt. Pleasant was well situated near forested mountains, vast, fertile fields,
and a good supply of water. While several commercial and small industrial
enterprises have flourished in or near the city since the nineteenth century,
agriculture and stock raising have always been the area's economic staples.
Currently, nearly half of all the farms and ranches are involved in wool growing, while thirty percent raise
cattle. Dairy farming, turkeys, grain, and hay are other significant contributors to the local economy.
Rambouillet sheep and shorthorn cattle were prominent around the start of the 20th century, while modern
livestock breeds and food strains dominate today.
Photo from Mission files
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scandinavia-1872-94/i-j
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8. Historic Downtown Mount Pleasant, Utah
(see Dahl, “A History of Hans Peter Jorgensen and Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen Jorgensen,” 2).
http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/legacy-sacrifice-missionaries-scandinavia-1872-94/i-j
Hans supported his wife and family by doing a variety of jobs, including working on the railroad,
sheering sheep, cutting cedar posts, and working at Clark’s Furniture Store. He also worked in a
fertilizer plant in Marysville for nearly five years. Even though he was a shoemaker by trade, he did not
practice that trade in Utah.
His posterity remembers that he enjoyed dancing with his wife at Scandinavian parties. They also recall
that he was a high priest and was very active in temple work in the Manti Temple during his final years
Hans died in 1937 in his home in Mount Pleasant at age eighty.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMR5-WXX
1900 Hans P. Jorgensen, "United States Census"
name: Hans P. Jorgensen event place: ED 128 Mt. Pleasant Precinct Mt. Pleasant city, Sanpete, Utah
birth date: Sep 1856 birthplace: Denmark relationship to head of household: Head
race or color (standardized): White gender: Male marital status: Married years married: 7
estimated marriage year: 1893 immigration year: 1872
father's birthplace: Denmark mother's birthplace: Denmark
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Hans P. Jorgensen M 44 Denmark
Wife Marie Jorgensen F 37 Denmark
Daughter Pearl E. Jorgensen F 4 Utah
Son Arthur Jorgensen M 1 Utah
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9. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M5XH-SQT
1910 Hans P. Jorgensen, “United States Census”
Hans P Jergensen, Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
name: Hans P Jergensen birthplace: Denmark
relationship to head of household: Self residence: Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
marital status: Married race : White gender: Male
Hans P Jorgensen immigration year: 1872
father's birthplace: Denmark mother's birthplace: Denmark
Anna Marie Jergensen Immigration Year 1894
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Hans P Jergensen M 53y Denmark
wife Anna Marie Jergensen F 47y Denmark
dau Pearl Emilia Jergensen F 13y Utah
son Otto L Jergensen M 11y Utah
son Holder Willford Jergensen M 8y Utah
dau Luella Marie Jergensen F 6y Utah
son Alfred Edward Jergensen M 3y Utah
Lesena Olson F 70y Denmark
Lesena Olson = Larsine Sorensen Olsen (1839 – 1913), Hans P. Jorgensen’s Mother-In-Law
Anna Marie Jorgensen = Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen Jorgensen (1863 Denmark – 1920 Utah)
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1920 Hans Jorgensen, "United States Census”
name: Hans Jorgensen residence: , Sanpete, Utah
estimated birth year: 1858 age: 62 birthplace: Denmark
relationship to head of household:Self
gender: Male race: White marital status: Married
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Hans Jorgensen M 62y Denmark
wife Annie Jorgensen F 56y Denmark
dau Pearl Jorgensen F 23y Utah
dau Aulgerie Jorgensen F 18y Utah
dau Lulella Jorgensen F 15y Utah
Annie Jorgensen = Ane Marie Kirstine Olsen Jorgensen (1863 Denmark – 1920 Utah)

10. http://thoth.library.utah.edu:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&docId=digcoll
_usa_24161763&fromSitemap=1&afterPDS=true
https://www.namesinstone.com/Sources.aspx?dec=467894
Name: HANS PETER JORGENSEN
Birth: 9/11/1856 DENMARK
Death: 3/3/1937 MT. PLEASANT, UT
Relations
Father: Neils Jorgensen
Mother: Anne Marie Jorgensen
Burial Information
Burial: Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States
Grave Location: A_197_2_8

11. Your tombstone stands neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care. It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist. You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our heart contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled so many years ago.
Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so.
I wonder as you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot and come to visit you.
Author Unknown
Find A Grave
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Hans Peter Jorgensen
Birth: Sep. 11, 1856, Svendborg, Denmark
Death: Mar. 3, 1937, Mt Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah
Burial: Mount Pleasant City Cemetery , Mount Pleasant, Sanpete Co., Utah
Plot: A_197_2_8
Spouse:
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Ane Marie Kristine Olsen Jorgensen
Birth: Jan. 31, 1863, Denmark
Death: Oct. 1, 1920, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete Co., Utah
Burial: Mount Pleasant City Cemetery , Mount Pleasant, Sanpete Co. Utah
Plot: A_197_2_7
Parents: Jens Olsen and Larsina Sorensen
Married to Hans P. Jorgensen
COD: Pernicious anemia, Death certificate State of Utah
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12. http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/legacy-sacrifice-missionaries-scandinavia-1872-94/i-j
Legacy of Sacrifice: Missionaries
to Scandinavia, 1872–94
It takes courage to accept a religion that requires sacrifices of the
heart. The nineteenth-century Scandinavian converts are a
commendable example of this courage. They gave up worldly goods,
standing in the community, and sometimes their lives for their
newfound beliefs. As a family history resource, this compilation
contains vital information, scrupulously researched, about each of
these valiant missionaries. Other features include explanations of
surnames in Scandinavian countries, a pronunciation guide, and
photos.
Hans Peter Christian Jorgensen
(Hans Peter Nielsen) 1856–1937
Residence: Fountain Green, Sanpete Co., Utah
Arrival date in Copenhagen: 6 June 1892
Missionary labors: Copenhagen and Ålborg conferences
Departure date from Copenhagen: 19 July 1894
Name of departure ship: Rona to Glasgow
Glasgow to New York on the Ethiopia
(Departed: 26 Jul 1894)
Birth date: 11 September 1856
Birthplace: Espe, Svendborg, Denmark
Father: Jørgensen, Niels Christian
Mother: Eriksdatter, Kirsten (Kjeistina)
Spouse: Christensen, Celia Maria
Marriage date: 26 February 1880
Marriage place:
Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah
Spouse: Olsen, Marie Ane Kirstine
Marriage date: 28 November 1894
Marriage place:
Manti Temple, Manti, Sanpete Co., Utah
Death date: 3 March 1937
Death place: Mount Pleasant, Sanpete Co., Utah
Burial place: Mount Pleasant, Sanpete Co., Utah

13. Hans and his twin sister and other family members joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in Denmark. He and his two brothers voyaged to America aboard the Minnesota from Liverpool to
New York City. They then traveled by train to Salt Lake City, arriving on 9 October 1872. At that time,
Hans was sixteen years old. His parents did not arrive in the city until 1873.
While waiting for his parents to arrive, Hans lived in Huntsville, Weber County, then Richfield, Cache
County, and finally Fountain Green, Sanpete County. He married Celia Christensen in 1880.
Unfortunately, this marriage ended in divorce. Hans remained in Fountain Green after the divorce. He
was granted citizenship on 22 September 1883
In Fountain Green, he served as president of the YMMIA. He also served in the Thirty-seventh Quorum
of the Seventy Hans accepted a mission call to Scandinavia in 1892. He was set apart for the mission by
John Henry Smith. He arrived in Copenhagen on 6 June 1892 and was assigned to labor in the Århus
Conference and later in the Copenhagen Conference. After completing this mission, he departed from
Copenhagen aboard the steamer Rona with other returning missionaries and forty-four emigrating
Latter-day Saints
Back in the States, he married again and settled in Fountain Green. By 1899, he and his new wife were
living in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County. Hans supported his wife by doing a variety of jobs, including
working on the railroad, sheering sheep, cutting cedar posts, and working at Clark’s Furniture Store. He
also worked in a fertilizer plant in Marysville for nearly five years. Even though he was a shoemaker by
trade, he did not practice that trade in Utah
His posterity remembers that he enjoyed dancing with his wife at Scandinavian parties. They also recall
that he was a high priest and was very active in temple work in the Manti Temple during his final years.
Hans died in 1937 in his home in Mount Pleasant at age eighty.