Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Washington Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   CHRISTIAN JESSEN, son of James Jessen, was born in Denmark July
31, 1831.  He attended school till he was about fifteen years old,
then worked on a farm at $6 per year and his board, for the first
two years, then for $20 per year and board.  At the age of twenty, he 
had saved some money and he came to America.  His passage across the 
ocean was attended with a great deal of suffering, his food being the 
filthiest and most unwholesome kind, the effects of which he feels
to this day. 
   In 1851, he located in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, worked on a farm
till 1854, then came to Washington Township, Newton County.  Here he
herded cattle, saved some money and purchased forty acres of land.  At
this writing, he is the owner of 160 acres, all under a high state of
cultivation, and has as fine a farm house as there is in the township.
   On December 2, 1858, he married Hannah Brewer, daughter of Asa Brewer
of Newton County, formerly of South Carolina.  Seven children were born
to them--Benjamin, Frederick Allen, Christian, Charlotte, Oliver, George
and Maria A.  Our subject lived in a log house till 1881, during which
year he built a fine two-story frame house, a good barn and outbuildings.
He is a good farmer, and raises some stock.  He attends church, and in 
politics is a Democrat of liberal views.


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