| Summary: | The LeRoy Jager Family James, Scott Beverly, LeRoy North Dakota. She graduated from Buffalo High School and attended Valley City State Teachers College. LeRoy and Beverly were married September 28, 1955, in the Buffalo Lutheran Church. Since 1964 they have owned and operated Jager Champlin Oil Company. The Jagers are parents of two boys, Scott LeRoy, born April 5, 1957, and James Fredrick, born February 18, 1969. Scott attended the University of North Dakota for three years and now works at Jager Oil and is attending Valley City State College. James is in the fifth grade at Maple Valley Elementary. The family belongs to the Buffalo Lutheran Church. LeRoy donated a kidney to his sister Alice (Mrs. Harry E. Johnson Jr.) November 1, 1971. She died May 30, 1973. ANDREW JENSEN and INGEBORG SCHMIDT Andrew Jensen Mrs. Andrew Jensen Andrew Jensen was born in Lugumkloster, Denmark, November 7, 1850. He came to America at seventeen and settled at Dubuque, Iowa. In 1876 at Mason City, Iowa, he married Ingeborg Schmidt whom he had prevailed upon to leave her home in Brede, Denmark. She was born November 24, 1851 in North Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, which then belonged to Denmark. The couple made their home at Chapin, Iowa, for three years, then came here and homesteaded in the Red River Valley, seven miles south of Buffalo, North Dakota. In the spring of 1898, with news of the Klondike fortunes, he left the farm in the hands of his father and sons, Thomas D., John Frederick, and Harry, and started for Edmonton. Andrew had already staked his claim on Anvil Creek in 1899 when swarms of gold seekers converged on Nome. He built the first log house there using wooden pegs for nails. After a year-and a-half, he returned and took Tom back with him. A year later he came back to Buffalo and left Tom to look after the mining interests. Andrew remained at Buffalo with his family until they moved to Fargo, North Dakota, in 1913. He took an active part in community life, held many county and township offices. He was a staunch Republican and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Ingeborg was a member of the OES at Buffalo. They celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary. An important member of the Jensen family was Thomas D. Jensen Sr., father of Andrew, who had come from Denmark to make his home with the Jensens. He died in 1905 at the age of eighty-four. Andrew died August 7, 1933, and Ingeborg October 27, 1949. Andrew and Ingeborg had ten children: one died in infancy, T. Detlef, John F., Thomas D., Dora, Katherine (Mrs. Leon Metzinger), Jennie (Mrs. Peter L. Petersen), Harry, Minnie and Ada. All but Minnie are deceased. John, a graduate of North Dakota State University, married Neva Stephens of Westhope, North Dakota. He died in 1943. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They had six children: Marcus, Juneau, Alaska; Tom, Anchorage, Alaska; Marion (Mrs. Towle) of Ketchican, Alaska; Florence (Mrs. Weschenfelder) of Washington, D.C.; Louva (Mrs. Russel Barton) of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Norma, deceased. Thomas attended NDSU, and spent most of his life in Alaska. He married Mayme Brewster from Sanborn, North Dakota. She died in 1938. In 1949 he married Marion Thompson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He died June 28, 1953. Dora died soon after graduating with honors from NDSU. Katherine, a graduate of NDSU, later attended University of Illinois a.id Columbia University. She was head of the Home Economics Department of the University of Idaho. She traveled extensively in Europe. She owned Ingeborg Lodge, located in the mountains near Moscow, Idaho. It was the scene of her marriage to Dr. Leon Metzinger of Fargo. They lived in Fargo until her death in 1948. Harry attended NDSU, married Maude Stevens of Tower City, North Dakota, and lived on a farm near there. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and both were members of OES. Jennie graduated from Valley City Teachers College, and married Peter L. Petersen of Arnegard, North Dakota. They had four children: Andrew, Anderson, Indiana; Ada (Mrs. Herman Murie) of Arnegard; Janet (Mrs. Thomas Culpepper) of Williston, North Dakota; and Priscilla, married and living in California. Minnie graduated from Valley City Teachers College, and retired from teaching to care for her mother, and is now a resident of the Williston Nursing Home. Ada received her bachelor of arts and master of arts from the University of North Dakota, then taught at Fargo's Agassiz Junior High School. She died September 27, 1972. 216 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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