Jensen, Peter

The following data is extracted from The Book of Clevelanders, A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men of the City of Cleveland, Burrows Book Company, 1914.

Jensen, Peter; baker; born Denmark; son of Jens Larsen and Johanne Anderson Jensen; educated, Denmark public schools, and took preliminary examination for University of Copenhagen; married, Cleveland, Dec. 20, 1900. Rosina Mae Donald; one child; in 1890, came to Cleveland from Copenhagen, Denmark; was occupied in various ways until five years ago, when he started a bakery and confectionary store in the East End; his business grew so rapidly that he moved to 2810 W. Madison Ave., for baking alone, disposing of his East End location; started a branch at 15611 Detroit Ave.; maintains a retail delivery in the neighborhood; belongs to First Church of Christ Science, having been healed from a so-called incurable disease in 1895.

Source: The Book of Clevelanders, A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men of the City of Cleveland, Burrows Book Company, 1914

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