• Son of Peder Christian Jensen and Anne Hansen Jensen.  They crossed the Atlantic on the ship Franklin in 1862.  In the journal of Jens Christian Andersen Weibye James is mentioned as the son of Peder "Dam" (Peder's father was Jens Christian Dam.)

  His given name is listed as "Jens" on the Scandinavian Mission records.

Christian A. Madsen Company (1862)

• Age at Departure: 9

Sources

• 1920 Utah Census.
• European Mission emigration records, Scandinavian Mission, 1852-1920.
• Find a Grave
• History of Utah Since Statehood, vol. 3, p. 85.
• "James Jensen," Salt Lake Tribune , 25 April 1934, 20.
• Jens C. A. Weibye, reminiscences and journal, circa 1862 in Orson B. West typescript collection, circa 1982-1987, 281-333.