Johan Nicolai Christensen [2311] ¹⁸⁹⁸

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Født i Gjerringe?

Mormon,
emigrerer 1868 sammen med sin 2. kone Marie Christensen og datteren Albertine
sejler Liverpool to New York 20 Jun 1868 - 14 Aug 1868
Voyage Information
Ship Name: Emerald Isle
Vessel Type: Ship
Departure: 20 Jun 1868 from Liverpool
Arrival:14 Aug 1868 at New York
Source: BMR, Book #1048, pp. 322-332,370 (FHL #025,692); Customs (FHL #175,654) (source abbreviations)
Church Leader: Hans Jensen Hals


Sources:
"List of Passengers' Names In Captain J. G. Holman's Ox-Train,"
Deseret Evening News, 22 Sep. 1868, 4.
Ship Passenger and Manifest Lists/Mormon Migration

Age at Departure: 31 with wife and child

http://gundgaard.dk/fgkaner/349.htm
He was a Doctor.

Johan (John) Nicolai Christensen was born in Stagstrup, Denmark to his parents Kristen Petersen Knattrup and Ane Johanne Nickolaisen.
His parents were baptized into the LDS church and came to Utah with a company of Saints in 1858 they sailed to USA on the ship, Kenilworth.
John N. Christensen served with the Danish army in the war between Denmark and Germany.
He was wounded and so was forced to stay in the rear ranks where he assisted the army doctors with other wounded men.
In that way he became interested in medicine and surgery which served him well during the pioneering period in Utah.

1868:
John and his pregnant 2nd wife, Marie Jensen, and their daughter Albertina came to USA on the packet ship EMERALD ISLE, which left Liverpool 20 June 1868 with Hans Jensen Hale as captain.
During that fateful voyage 4 adults and 37 children died and were buried in the ocean, and others died after landing in Yew York.
The company docked in New York harbor August 11th and on the 25th they arrived at Benton on the Union Pacific Railroad seven hundred miles west of Omaha.
He crossed the plains in the John G. Holman Co in 1868.
He was 31 years old.
He traveled with his 2nd wife Marie Jensen and infant son, Atlantic. They left Sept 1, 1868 from Benton, WY and arrived Sept 25, 1868.
John and Marie Jensen promised Emma Nicoline Dahl, his first wife, that they would send for her after they got settled; intending to live in polygamy. But they never sent for her.

He settled first in Richfield where he followed the trade of tinsmith and did any other odd jobs he found to make a living for his family.
From Richfield he moved to Mount Pleasant where he met Dr. Van Nocken, a dentist from whom he learned the profession.
He became a pioneer dentist of several Utah towns, practicing in Spring City, Lehi, Springville, Payson and Provo.
He moved from Spring City, Sanpete County to American Fork in 1876, and remained there for several years before finally settling in Provo.
He not only practiced dentistry, but surgery and medicine as best he knew, and became known as Dr. Christensen.
He also learned Ventriloquism also Hypnotism.
When a Doctor, he cured people thru Hypnotism as well as medicine.
He was mechanical minded, industrious of an inventive nature and never idle.
He was a handsome man. Large in stature. He was about 6 feet 4 inches tall and he wore a size 14 shoe.
He had to go to Salt Lake to order his shoes because they didn't his size in Provo.
He tried to live in polygamy with his 2nd and 3rd wives but they couldn't agree. So they finally left him and both were granted divorces and he moved to Provo to start again.

John Nicolai Christensen married lst Emma Nicoline Dahl, in Denmark, 10 June 1858.
They had three daughters,
1) Margrethe (Margaret) born 1858 in Alborg, Thisted., Denmark.
2) Johanne., born Sept. 1860 at Alborg., Thisted, Denmark.
3) Louise Nelsine, born 28 Mar 1862., Alborg, Thisted, Denmark.

2nd wife Maria Jensen., born 9 Oct. 1847, married in Denmark, divorced him and is sealed to her second husband Andrew Christopherson.
Their children:
l) Albertine Christensen., born 1866 in Denmark and died on board ship Emerald Isle, 1 July 1868.
2) Atlantic, born 22 July 1868 on the Atlantic Ocean. -became a dentist
3) John Christensen. There may have been others.

3rd wife Christine Charlotte Johnson, born 6 Aug 1849.
They were married in the Salt Lake Endowment House, the marriage was annulled she remarried James Hansen, her children were willed to him.
Child born, Leolette Josephine Christensen, born 17 Aug. 1874 at Spring City, Sanpete.

He married Phebe Carter as his 4th wife.
They and Johanne had a double wedding.
Phebe was 16 years old at the time.
2 children were born to them in Provo, Utah.
1). Ruby Christensen who married Herald B. Crandall, and
2) Herald D. Christensen. Dr. Christensen died 26 Jan 1914 at Provo, Utah.
By JJ

  Om Johan

1. Beskrivelse: History of my Father Johan Nicolai Christensen.

2. Indvandring: Rejse Benton, Wyoming til Utah, 1868, USA. ^1899,1900

3. rejsebeskrivelse: Journal of Hans Jensen Hals, 1868, København, Sokkelund, København, Danmark.

4. rejsebeskrivelse: Liverpool to New York 20 Jun 1868 - 14 Aug 1868, 1868, Liverpool, England. ¹⁹⁰⁰

Johan blev gift med Emma Nicoline Dahl [2310] [MRIN: 869] den 10 Jun. 1859 i Vestervig, Refs, Thisted, Danmark.¹⁸⁹⁴ Ægteskabet endte med skilsmisse før 1864. (Emma Nicoline Dahl [2310] blev født den 17 Sep. 1836 i Vestervig, Refs, Thisted, Danmark, dåb den 23 Okt. 1836 i Vestervig, Refs, Thisted, Danmark,¹⁸⁹⁵ døde den 7 Feb. 1907 i Ålborg Budolfi (Domkirke), Fleskum, Ålborg, Danmark og blev begravet den 12 Feb. 1907 i Ålborg Budolfi (Domkirke), Fleskum, Ålborg, Danmark ¹⁸⁹⁶.)

Johan blev derefter gift med Maria Jensdatter [36968] [MRIN: 13709] cirka 1864 i Danmark. (Maria Jensdatter [36968] blev født den 11 Maj 1840 i Lild , Vester Han, Thisted, Danmark, dåb den 15 Maj 1840 i Lild , Vester Han, Thisted, Danmark ¹⁹⁰¹ og døde den 7 Aug. 1882 i Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.)

Johan blev derefter gift med Phebe W. Carter [36973] [MRIN: 13711], datter af Dominicus Carter [36939] og Mary Ette Durfee [36940], den 22 Sep. 1877 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. (Phebe W. Carter [36973] blev født den 26 Maj 1862 i Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, døde den 1 Sep. 1930 i Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States og blev begravet den 3 Sep. 1930 i Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.)

Johan blev derefter gift med Charlotte Christina Johnson [36972] [MRIN: 13710] den 8 Nov. 1898 i Utah, Utah, United States. Ægteskabet endte med annullering. (Charlotte Christina Johnson [36972] blev født den 7 Jul. 1849 i Jubberudstorp, Kyrkefalla, Skaraborg, Sverige, dåb den 6 Aug. 1849 i Kyrkefalla, Skaraborg, Sverige og døde den 22 Mar. 1934 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.)