The Nome nugget., 1933-11-04
DEATH COMES TO ANDREW HENSON, ALASKA PIONEER
Father of Thos. D. Jensen of i. Nome Succumbs at Homo
 In North Dakota

in territorial North Dakota. vet eran of the Alaska gold rush and father of Thomas D. Jensen of Nome, died August at his home in Fargo, N. D., follow ng an ill., ness of about six months.
 Born in Lugemkloster, Denmark, Novembrr 2, 1850. he left that country when he was IT, came to America and settled at Dubuque, Iowa. Tn 1867 at Mason City, Iowa, he married Ingeborg Sch midt whom he prevailed upon to leave her home in Brede, Den- mark, and %come to the United States. The young couple made their home at Chapin, Iowa, for three years. and in February, 1869, came to Dakota territory and homesteaded in the Red River valley seven miles south of what was called Third Siding, now known as Buffalo, N. D., where they made their home for 34 years until they moved to Fargo in 1913. Rs5F8ss55zs1
 The lure of the northlandss found willing subject in Andrew Jen- sen at an age when most men have passed the adventurous per- iod. At 4S he was farming his homestead in Buffalo. .e but news of the Klondike fortunes inspired him to try his luck, and in the spring of 1898 he left the Buff alo farm with his sons and art ed for Edmonton. At Athabasca landing he and his companons fitted out for the voyage down the Mackenzie river to Fort McPher- son, over McDougal pass and down the Porcupine to Fort Yukon.
 At Fort Yukon he took pass. age on the river steamer Portus B. Weare, of the North American Transportation and Trading Com pany for St. Michael. The Weare was caught on sand bar on the Yukon and MT. Jensen and five companions purchased a small boat from native, which they christ ened the Roaring Gmlet, in which they finally arrived at St. Michael The last boat had left St. Michael for the outside the day before their arrival and there was nothing to do but remain there.
 The latter part of November a couple of reindeer men arrived at St. Michael with reports of the rich gold strike which had been made on Anvil Creek and Snow Gulch late in the fall of 1898. Mir. Jenson and a companion built hand sleds that night and the next morning loading them down with stove. tent. cooking utensils, blan- kets. tools, provisions etc. they started for the scene of the strike. On Christmas Eve. 1898, they ar rived. tired and hungry at John Dexter's place at Chinik. A most welcome sight met them there. MT. Dexter had big Christmas Dinner ready, and a Christmas Tree lighted up on which the dec orations were nuggets of gold sus- pended from linen threads. The original discoverers of gold on Snow Gulch and Anvil Creek, Jaf- ct Linderberg. Erik Lindblom and John Brynteson, were there and they furnished the decorations for the tree from the gold which they had rocked out in the fall.
 MT. Jenson staked his first claim a bench on Anvil Creek. on Dec ember S1. 1898. He was among the first to build log cabin on the present site of Nome. He and two partners opened up and min ed the lower half of No. 5 an An vii Creek in the summers of 1899 and 1900.
 MT. Jenson,s adventures in Ala ska formed the subject of an en- tertaining feature story four years ago in the Fargo Forum, which recounted how the Fargo man rubbed shoulders with adventurers
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