Children: Leona Amelia, Cora Ann, Dora Rose, Ruby Isabell
Raised by Lars K Larsen and Josephine Petersen
The L in his name stands for Larsen. His mother died when he was born and he was raised by the Larsens. He never did have a middle initial or a middle name given to him but he always used the middle initial or name. Quote from Autobiography "During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen"
Jacob L Hartvigsen Written by Jacob L Harvigsen
I, Jacob “Larsen” Hartvigsen, was born 27 September 1872, at Hyrum, Cache, Utah. My parents were Niels Jacob Hartvigsen and Amelia Skanke. They joined the church in Norway. My mother was baptized in July 1865 at Bjarkoe, Norway by her brother, and Anthon L Skanchy (Skanke). My father was one of the first three to join the Church north of the Artic Circle. He was baptized 26 Jan 1860. They had to chop a hole in the ice for baptisms. Niels was born 8 Oct 1839 at Dahle Kvaefjord, Tromso, Norway. Amelia was born 26 July 1832 in Trondhjem, S.Tromso, Norway. In the spring of 1864 Father and Mother became acquainted on board ship coming from Norway to America, a voyage of eleven weeks. They fell in love and were married in Chicago. Father worked there as a cobbler to earn enough money to come to Utah. Father was a sort of “Jack of all trades” with carpenter’s and cobblers tools. They drove an ox team to Hyrum, Cache, Utah inn 1868. A Daughter Amelia was born to them 2 Jan 1869 at Hyrum, Niles Jacob Jr. was born 26 Apr 1870. My mother died 27 Sept 1827 leaving twin boys. My twin brother, Esau died 30 Oct 1872. A neighbor Josephine Peterson Larsen and her husband Lars K Larsen took me to raise as their own. Josephine was a good friend of my mother’s and had lost a baby of her own a short time before. Starting to nurse a baby after 8 or 10 days caused her sever pain and discomfort. I was never formally adopted because of the friendship for my mother. When I was two years of age my father married again and wanted me back. Mother Larsen couldn’t give me up, and asked the Bishop to intercede for her. During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen and raised with their children as a brother. I started school at seven years of age. Igvald C Thoresen was the teacher in the little rock schoolhouse. Oluf Rose was in the same class. Father Larsen was very fond of me and took me with him whenever he could, driving teams and sawing wood in the canyon. I was baptized 9 Nov 1880 by Christopher Winge and confirmed. I was Ordained to each office in the Aaronic Priesthood and officiated in them. Lars K Larsen ordained me an Elder 3 Jan 1894. Everyone was re-baptized before going to the Temple for marriage. I was baptized 1 Dec 1896 by Andrew Allen and confirmed by Ole H Rose. My schooling in Hyrum continued until I was 16 years of age. One year I did attend school and not having enough to keep me busy, I got into bad company. I played cards in the store. The loser had to buy crackers ad salmon for your lunch. A wonderful teacher, Anna Noble, gave me encouragement and a desire to higher education. I won a Bible in a mental arithmetic contest, In 1893, Mother Larsen convince me that I should go to Brigham Young Collage in Logan. I lived and batched with Alvin Allen from Hyrum. His mother furnished a food basket one week and my mother furnished it the next. In 1894 my roommate was Charles A Jensen of Hyrum. In 1895 I lived alone and finished school in the spring of 1896 with a normal school certificate. This wonderful church school planted a love of the gospel in my heart. Teachers such as Joshua H Paul, Douglas M Todd, and Ephraim G Gowen were some of the most wonderful men I have ever know. On 17 Dec 1896 I married Wilhelmina Albertine Rose of Hyrum. She was a neighbor whom I had known all my life. I fell in love with her at her father’s dairy where she was a dairymaid and I was a herder. The herd was kept in Blacksmith fork Canyon. That winter of 1896-97 I taught schooling Hyrum District under Principal C. F. Olsen. My schoolroom was a little one-room log cabin in Blacksmith Fork Hollow. I rode my brother, Lorenzo’s Horse over and back each day, carrying my lunch and hay for the horse. My salary for the first year was $25 per month. I went to summer school in Logan at A. C and B. Y. C. and taught school the next year at Mount Sterling District as Principal over two small schools. My salary was $35 per month. We lived about one block from the Rose home. The next summer I went on the thresher with; my brother Niels. I had planned to teach school the next winter but did not pass the exam. I spent the winter logging in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Leona Emelia was born 4 Apr 1898 in Hyrum. In 1898 I went to Marsh Valley near Downey, Idaho with my brother Niels and filed on a 160 acre homestead. In 1899 we moved to the homestead and lived on the Cherry Creek in a tent during the summer and returned to Hyrum for the winter. That winter I received a mission call I agreed to go but was advised to stay on the homestead until I made final proof. I built a one-room home up on the hill above the creek. We borrowed cows to milk from the wealthy rancher of Woodland and sold butter and eggs in Downey for groceries and blacksmith bills, etc. Cora Ann was born in Hyrum 14 Apr 1903. For seven years we saved and prepared for that mission. I had $550 in cash with me for my mission. In 1906 I wrote to the Church leaders that I was ready to go. They sent me to the Swedish mission. Heber J Grant was president of the European Mission. He met us at Liverpool. There were 28 missionaries-all of us were homesick. Pres. Grant gave us a remedy for homesickness – work; work; work; Nine of use were assigned to Scandinavia. In Copenhagen, Pres. N. J. Christensen interviewed each of us. Then he learned that my people were Norwegian and that I could speak some of the language he sent me to Norway. In Oslo, I found my foster father Lars K Larsen Who was on his second mission. He was very happy and proud introducing me to his brother and sister and friends as his son. My first field of labor was the Tronhjem Conference where my mother’s people lived. In November, I sent to a companion to Niels Jensen on the Island of Vardo around the North Cape – about 200 miles east of hammer fest in the Arctic Circle. From about the 20th of November until the middle of January there was no daylight. The day the sun first came up out of the ocean in the south the guns of the fort were fired in celebration. Here I contracted a severe case of bronchitis and have since that time had weak bronchial tubes and now bronchial asthma. Sister Widtsoe, mother of Apostle John A Widtsoe, was a good friend to me in Torondhjem. She knew my mother was a Skanchy. A sister of her great friend Anthon L Skanchy, She asked me to baptize a couple who were he friends. I had been set apart for this mission 15 April 1906 and ordained a Seventy by J Golden Kimball of the First Council of Seventy. I returned from my first mission 20 June 1908. My wife and two little girls went to the homestead in the summer to cook for my half brother, Adolph, who worked the farm while I was away. They lived in Hyrum with her folks in the winter. She received one third of the crop each year and had saved $2,000 when I returned in 1908. With that $2,000 we bought 80 acres from Peter Christiansen. From that time on we grew wheat to buy more land to grow more wheat to buy more land until we had 1,100 acres. I was appointed 2nd Counselor to Bishop Henry H Wakley of Woodland Ward with William Phillips as 1st Counselor. I was ordained and set apart 20- Nov 1908 by Elder Orson Whitney. On 19 June 1909 I was made Bishop of the Woodland Ward and was ordained by Elder John Henry Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Another daughter, Dora Rose, was born on the homestead 23 Oct 1909. We built a home in Downey and moved there in 1912. I was retained as Bishop of Woodland to four years. Soon after my release as Bishop, I was asked to fill the position of Superintendent of the Downey Ward Sunday School. I was also made 1st Counselor in the Stake High Priest’s Presidency and the class leader in the Downey Ward group. I taught classes in MIA and was active in the ward dramas. In 1919 I was called by Pres. George T Hyde to be clerk for the Portneuf Stake Presidency. I served in this capacity for 22 years. In the spring of 1941 I was released along with the Stake Presidency and made a High Counselor in the new organization. About the years 1934-1936 I was a member of the county committee of the Agricultural Adjustment Association. I worked in Pocatello and my son-in –law, Eugene England, came from school in Logan with my daughter, Dora, in the summer to run my farm on a one-fourth crop basis. Later, he started buying one half of the farm. We worked together until 1942 when he bought the rest of it. In 1944 I was called on a six month’s mission to the Northwestern States with headquarters at Portland, Oregon. This was during World War II when missionaries were scarce and I labored alone without a companion. This rather spoiled my mission because I didn’t like being alone. When I returned from my mission I had been released from the High Council and was asked to work on the Genealogical Committee. That same year I was called to officiate in the Logan Temple. I spent the first winter there alone in a little home which I bought. The next year we sold our home in Downey and my wife and daughter, Isabel, joined me in Logan. (Ruby Isabel was born 13 Aug 1914 at Downey, she was special needs.) This move was very hard for my wife. She never would have left the friends of almost fifty years to go to a strange town to live except to be with me in my work in the Temple. This work in the Temple gave me a greater love for my fellow men. Studying the book “Jesus the Christ” by Talmadge taught me to love Jesus Christ. My missionary work, along with prayer, study, work and the Holy Ghost have given me a firm testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of Joseph Smith. Jacob died 12 Apr 1955 at Logan, Utah.
Raised by Lars K Larsen and Josephine Petersen
The L in his name stands for Larsen. His mother died when he was born and he was raised by the Larsens. He never did have a middle initial or a middle name given to him but he always used the middle initial or name. Quote from Autobiography "During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen"
Jacob L Hartvigsen Written by Jacob L Harvigsen
I, Jacob “Larsen” Hartvigsen, was born 27 September 1872, at Hyrum, Cache, Utah. My parents were Niels Jacob Hartvigsen and Amelia Skanke. They joined the church in Norway. My mother was baptized in July 1865 at Bjarkoe, Norway by her brother, and Anthon L Skanchy (Skanke). My father was one of the first three to join the Church north of the Artic Circle. He was baptized 26 Jan 1860. They had to chop a hole in the ice for baptisms. Niels was born 8 Oct 1839 at Dahle Kvaefjord, Tromso, Norway. Amelia was born 26 July 1832 in Trondhjem, S.Tromso, Norway. In the spring of 1864 Father and Mother became acquainted on board ship coming from Norway to America, a voyage of eleven weeks. They fell in love and were married in Chicago. Father worked there as a cobbler to earn enough money to come to Utah. Father was a sort of “Jack of all trades” with carpenter’s and cobblers tools. They drove an ox team to Hyrum, Cache, Utah inn 1868. A Daughter Amelia was born to them 2 Jan 1869 at Hyrum, Niles Jacob Jr. was born 26 Apr 1870. My mother died 27 Sept 1827 leaving twin boys. My twin brother, Esau died 30 Oct 1872. A neighbor Josephine Peterson Larsen and her husband Lars K Larsen took me to raise as their own. Josephine was a good friend of my mother’s and had lost a baby of her own a short time before. Starting to nurse a baby after 8 or 10 days caused her sever pain and discomfort. I was never formally adopted because of the friendship for my mother. When I was two years of age my father married again and wanted me back. Mother Larsen couldn’t give me up, and asked the Bishop to intercede for her. During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen and raised with their children as a brother. I started school at seven years of age. Igvald C Thoresen was the teacher in the little rock schoolhouse. Oluf Rose was in the same class. Father Larsen was very fond of me and took me with him whenever he could, driving teams and sawing wood in the canyon. I was baptized 9 Nov 1880 by Christopher Winge and confirmed. I was Ordained to each office in the Aaronic Priesthood and officiated in them. Lars K Larsen ordained me an Elder 3 Jan 1894. Everyone was re-baptized before going to the Temple for marriage. I was baptized 1 Dec 1896 by Andrew Allen and confirmed by Ole H Rose. My schooling in Hyrum continued until I was 16 years of age. One year I did attend school and not having enough to keep me busy, I got into bad company. I played cards in the store. The loser had to buy crackers ad salmon for your lunch. A wonderful teacher, Anna Noble, gave me encouragement and a desire to higher education. I won a Bible in a mental arithmetic contest, In 1893, Mother Larsen convince me that I should go to Brigham Young Collage in Logan. I lived and batched with Alvin Allen from Hyrum. His mother furnished a food basket one week and my mother furnished it the next. In 1894 my roommate was Charles A Jensen of Hyrum. In 1895 I lived alone and finished school in the spring of 1896 with a normal school certificate. This wonderful church school planted a love of the gospel in my heart. Teachers such as Joshua H Paul, Douglas M Todd, and Ephraim G Gowen were some of the most wonderful men I have ever know. On 17 Dec 1896 I married Wilhelmina Albertine Rose of Hyrum. She was a neighbor whom I had known all my life. I fell in love with her at her father’s dairy where she was a dairymaid and I was a herder. The herd was kept in Blacksmith fork Canyon. That winter of 1896-97 I taught schooling Hyrum District under Principal C. F. Olsen. My schoolroom was a little one-room log cabin in Blacksmith Fork Hollow. I rode my brother, Lorenzo’s Horse over and back each day, carrying my lunch and hay for the horse. My salary for the first year was $25 per month. I went to summer school in Logan at A. C and B. Y. C. and taught school the next year at Mount Sterling District as Principal over two small schools. My salary was $35 per month. We lived about one block from the Rose home. The next summer I went on the thresher with; my brother Niels. I had planned to teach school the next winter but did not pass the exam. I spent the winter logging in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Leona Emelia was born 4 Apr 1898 in Hyrum. In 1898 I went to Marsh Valley near Downey, Idaho with my brother Niels and filed on a 160 acre homestead. In 1899 we moved to the homestead and lived on the Cherry Creek in a tent during the summer and returned to Hyrum for the winter. That winter I received a mission call I agreed to go but was advised to stay on the homestead until I made final proof. I built a one-room home up on the hill above the creek. We borrowed cows to milk from the wealthy rancher of Woodland and sold butter and eggs in Downey for groceries and blacksmith bills, etc. Cora Ann was born in Hyrum 14 Apr 1903. For seven years we saved and prepared for that mission. I had $550 in cash with me for my mission. In 1906 I wrote to the Church leaders that I was ready to go. They sent me to the Swedish mission. Heber J Grant was president of the European Mission. He met us at Liverpool. There were 28 missionaries-all of us were homesick. Pres. Grant gave us a remedy for homesickness – work; work; work; Nine of use were assigned to Scandinavia. In Copenhagen, Pres. N. J. Christensen interviewed each of us. Then he learned that my people were Norwegian and that I could speak some of the language he sent me to Norway. In Oslo, I found my foster father Lars K Larsen Who was on his second mission. He was very happy and proud introducing me to his brother and sister and friends as his son. My first field of labor was the Tronhjem Conference where my mother’s people lived. In November, I sent to a companion to Niels Jensen on the Island of Vardo around the North Cape – about 200 miles east of hammer fest in the Arctic Circle. From about the 20th of November until the middle of January there was no daylight. The day the sun first came up out of the ocean in the south the guns of the fort were fired in celebration. Here I contracted a severe case of bronchitis and have since that time had weak bronchial tubes and now bronchial asthma. Sister Widtsoe, mother of Apostle John A Widtsoe, was a good friend to me in Torondhjem. She knew my mother was a Skanchy. A sister of her great friend Anthon L Skanchy, She asked me to baptize a couple who were he friends. I had been set apart for this mission 15 April 1906 and ordained a Seventy by J Golden Kimball of the First Council of Seventy. I returned from my first mission 20 June 1908. My wife and two little girls went to the homestead in the summer to cook for my half brother, Adolph, who worked the farm while I was away. They lived in Hyrum with her folks in the winter. She received one third of the crop each year and had saved $2,000 when I returned in 1908. With that $2,000 we bought 80 acres from Peter Christiansen. From that time on we grew wheat to buy more land to grow more wheat to buy more land until we had 1,100 acres. I was appointed 2nd Counselor to Bishop Henry H Wakley of Woodland Ward with William Phillips as 1st Counselor. I was ordained and set apart 20- Nov 1908 by Elder Orson Whitney. On 19 June 1909 I was made Bishop of the Woodland Ward and was ordained by Elder John Henry Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Another daughter, Dora Rose, was born on the homestead 23 Oct 1909. We built a home in Downey and moved there in 1912. I was retained as Bishop of Woodland to four years. Soon after my release as Bishop, I was asked to fill the position of Superintendent of the Downey Ward Sunday School. I was also made 1st Counselor in the Stake High Priest’s Presidency and the class leader in the Downey Ward group. I taught classes in MIA and was active in the ward dramas. In 1919 I was called by Pres. George T Hyde to be clerk for the Portneuf Stake Presidency. I served in this capacity for 22 years. In the spring of 1941 I was released along with the Stake Presidency and made a High Counselor in the new organization. About the years 1934-1936 I was a member of the county committee of the Agricultural Adjustment Association. I worked in Pocatello and my son-in –law, Eugene England, came from school in Logan with my daughter, Dora, in the summer to run my farm on a one-fourth crop basis. Later, he started buying one half of the farm. We worked together until 1942 when he bought the rest of it. In 1944 I was called on a six month’s mission to the Northwestern States with headquarters at Portland, Oregon. This was during World War II when missionaries were scarce and I labored alone without a companion. This rather spoiled my mission because I didn’t like being alone. When I returned from my mission I had been released from the High Council and was asked to work on the Genealogical Committee. That same year I was called to officiate in the Logan Temple. I spent the first winter there alone in a little home which I bought. The next year we sold our home in Downey and my wife and daughter, Isabel, joined me in Logan. (Ruby Isabel was born 13 Aug 1914 at Downey, she was special needs.) This move was very hard for my wife. She never would have left the friends of almost fifty years to go to a strange town to live except to be with me in my work in the Temple. This work in the Temple gave me a greater love for my fellow men. Studying the book “Jesus the Christ” by Talmadge taught me to love Jesus Christ. My missionary work, along with prayer, study, work and the Holy Ghost have given me a firm testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of Joseph Smith. Jacob died 12 Apr 1955 at Logan, Utah.
Children: Leona Amelia, Cora Ann, Dora Rose, Ruby Isabell
Raised by Lars K Larsen and Josephine Petersen
The L in his name stands for Larsen. His mother died when he was born and he was raised by the Larsens. He never did have a middle initial or a middle name given to him but he always used the middle initial or name. Quote from Autobiography "During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen"
Jacob L Hartvigsen Written by Jacob L Harvigsen
I, Jacob “Larsen” Hartvigsen, was born 27 September 1872, at Hyrum, Cache, Utah. My parents were Niels Jacob Hartvigsen and Amelia Skanke. They joined the church in Norway. My mother was baptized in July 1865 at Bjarkoe, Norway by her brother, and Anthon L Skanchy (Skanke). My father was one of the first three to join the Church north of the Artic Circle. He was baptized 26 Jan 1860. They had to chop a hole in the ice for baptisms. Niels was born 8 Oct 1839 at Dahle Kvaefjord, Tromso, Norway. Amelia was born 26 July 1832 in Trondhjem, S.Tromso, Norway. In the spring of 1864 Father and Mother became acquainted on board ship coming from Norway to America, a voyage of eleven weeks. They fell in love and were married in Chicago. Father worked there as a cobbler to earn enough money to come to Utah. Father was a sort of “Jack of all trades” with carpenter’s and cobblers tools. They drove an ox team to Hyrum, Cache, Utah inn 1868. A Daughter Amelia was born to them 2 Jan 1869 at Hyrum, Niles Jacob Jr. was born 26 Apr 1870. My mother died 27 Sept 1827 leaving twin boys. My twin brother, Esau died 30 Oct 1872. A neighbor Josephine Peterson Larsen and her husband Lars K Larsen took me to raise as their own. Josephine was a good friend of my mother’s and had lost a baby of her own a short time before. Starting to nurse a baby after 8 or 10 days caused her sever pain and discomfort. I was never formally adopted because of the friendship for my mother. When I was two years of age my father married again and wanted me back. Mother Larsen couldn’t give me up, and asked the Bishop to intercede for her. During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen and raised with their children as a brother. I started school at seven years of age. Igvald C Thoresen was the teacher in the little rock schoolhouse. Oluf Rose was in the same class. Father Larsen was very fond of me and took me with him whenever he could, driving teams and sawing wood in the canyon. I was baptized 9 Nov 1880 by Christopher Winge and confirmed. I was Ordained to each office in the Aaronic Priesthood and officiated in them. Lars K Larsen ordained me an Elder 3 Jan 1894. Everyone was re-baptized before going to the Temple for marriage. I was baptized 1 Dec 1896 by Andrew Allen and confirmed by Ole H Rose. My schooling in Hyrum continued until I was 16 years of age. One year I did attend school and not having enough to keep me busy, I got into bad company. I played cards in the store. The loser had to buy crackers ad salmon for your lunch. A wonderful teacher, Anna Noble, gave me encouragement and a desire to higher education. I won a Bible in a mental arithmetic contest, In 1893, Mother Larsen convince me that I should go to Brigham Young Collage in Logan. I lived and batched with Alvin Allen from Hyrum. His mother furnished a food basket one week and my mother furnished it the next. In 1894 my roommate was Charles A Jensen of Hyrum. In 1895 I lived alone and finished school in the spring of 1896 with a normal school certificate. This wonderful church school planted a love of the gospel in my heart. Teachers such as Joshua H Paul, Douglas M Todd, and Ephraim G Gowen were some of the most wonderful men I have ever know. On 17 Dec 1896 I married Wilhelmina Albertine Rose of Hyrum. She was a neighbor whom I had known all my life. I fell in love with her at her father’s dairy where she was a dairymaid and I was a herder. The herd was kept in Blacksmith fork Canyon. That winter of 1896-97 I taught schooling Hyrum District under Principal C. F. Olsen. My schoolroom was a little one-room log cabin in Blacksmith Fork Hollow. I rode my brother, Lorenzo’s Horse over and back each day, carrying my lunch and hay for the horse. My salary for the first year was $25 per month. I went to summer school in Logan at A. C and B. Y. C. and taught school the next year at Mount Sterling District as Principal over two small schools. My salary was $35 per month. We lived about one block from the Rose home. The next summer I went on the thresher with; my brother Niels. I had planned to teach school the next winter but did not pass the exam. I spent the winter logging in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Leona Emelia was born 4 Apr 1898 in Hyrum. In 1898 I went to Marsh Valley near Downey, Idaho with my brother Niels and filed on a 160 acre homestead. In 1899 we moved to the homestead and lived on the Cherry Creek in a tent during the summer and returned to Hyrum for the winter. That winter I received a mission call I agreed to go but was advised to stay on the homestead until I made final proof. I built a one-room home up on the hill above the creek. We borrowed cows to milk from the wealthy rancher of Woodland and sold butter and eggs in Downey for groceries and blacksmith bills, etc. Cora Ann was born in Hyrum 14 Apr 1903. For seven years we saved and prepared for that mission. I had $550 in cash with me for my mission. In 1906 I wrote to the Church leaders that I was ready to go. They sent me to the Swedish mission. Heber J Grant was president of the European Mission. He met us at Liverpool. There were 28 missionaries-all of us were homesick. Pres. Grant gave us a remedy for homesickness – work; work; work; Nine of use were assigned to Scandinavia. In Copenhagen, Pres. N. J. Christensen interviewed each of us. Then he learned that my people were Norwegian and that I could speak some of the language he sent me to Norway. In Oslo, I found my foster father Lars K Larsen Who was on his second mission. He was very happy and proud introducing me to his brother and sister and friends as his son. My first field of labor was the Tronhjem Conference where my mother’s people lived. In November, I sent to a companion to Niels Jensen on the Island of Vardo around the North Cape – about 200 miles east of hammer fest in the Arctic Circle. From about the 20th of November until the middle of January there was no daylight. The day the sun first came up out of the ocean in the south the guns of the fort were fired in celebration. Here I contracted a severe case of bronchitis and have since that time had weak bronchial tubes and now bronchial asthma. Sister Widtsoe, mother of Apostle John A Widtsoe, was a good friend to me in Torondhjem. She knew my mother was a Skanchy. A sister of her great friend Anthon L Skanchy, She asked me to baptize a couple who were he friends. I had been set apart for this mission 15 April 1906 and ordained a Seventy by J Golden Kimball of the First Council of Seventy. I returned from my first mission 20 June 1908. My wife and two little girls went to the homestead in the summer to cook for my half brother, Adolph, who worked the farm while I was away. They lived in Hyrum with her folks in the winter. She received one third of the crop each year and had saved $2,000 when I returned in 1908. With that $2,000 we bought 80 acres from Peter Christiansen. From that time on we grew wheat to buy more land to grow more wheat to buy more land until we had 1,100 acres. I was appointed 2nd Counselor to Bishop Henry H Wakley of Woodland Ward with William Phillips as 1st Counselor. I was ordained and set apart 20- Nov 1908 by Elder Orson Whitney. On 19 June 1909 I was made Bishop of the Woodland Ward and was ordained by Elder John Henry Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Another daughter, Dora Rose, was born on the homestead 23 Oct 1909. We built a home in Downey and moved there in 1912. I was retained as Bishop of Woodland to four years. Soon after my release as Bishop, I was asked to fill the position of Superintendent of the Downey Ward Sunday School. I was also made 1st Counselor in the Stake High Priest’s Presidency and the class leader in the Downey Ward group. I taught classes in MIA and was active in the ward dramas. In 1919 I was called by Pres. George T Hyde to be clerk for the Portneuf Stake Presidency. I served in this capacity for 22 years. In the spring of 1941 I was released along with the Stake Presidency and made a High Counselor in the new organization. About the years 1934-1936 I was a member of the county committee of the Agricultural Adjustment Association. I worked in Pocatello and my son-in –law, Eugene England, came from school in Logan with my daughter, Dora, in the summer to run my farm on a one-fourth crop basis. Later, he started buying one half of the farm. We worked together until 1942 when he bought the rest of it. In 1944 I was called on a six month’s mission to the Northwestern States with headquarters at Portland, Oregon. This was during World War II when missionaries were scarce and I labored alone without a companion. This rather spoiled my mission because I didn’t like being alone. When I returned from my mission I had been released from the High Council and was asked to work on the Genealogical Committee. That same year I was called to officiate in the Logan Temple. I spent the first winter there alone in a little home which I bought. The next year we sold our home in Downey and my wife and daughter, Isabel, joined me in Logan. (Ruby Isabel was born 13 Aug 1914 at Downey, she was special needs.) This move was very hard for my wife. She never would have left the friends of almost fifty years to go to a strange town to live except to be with me in my work in the Temple. This work in the Temple gave me a greater love for my fellow men. Studying the book “Jesus the Christ” by Talmadge taught me to love Jesus Christ. My missionary work, along with prayer, study, work and the Holy Ghost have given me a firm testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of Joseph Smith. Jacob died 12 Apr 1955 at Logan, Utah.
Raised by Lars K Larsen and Josephine Petersen
The L in his name stands for Larsen. His mother died when he was born and he was raised by the Larsens. He never did have a middle initial or a middle name given to him but he always used the middle initial or name. Quote from Autobiography "During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen"
Jacob L Hartvigsen Written by Jacob L Harvigsen
I, Jacob “Larsen” Hartvigsen, was born 27 September 1872, at Hyrum, Cache, Utah. My parents were Niels Jacob Hartvigsen and Amelia Skanke. They joined the church in Norway. My mother was baptized in July 1865 at Bjarkoe, Norway by her brother, and Anthon L Skanchy (Skanke). My father was one of the first three to join the Church north of the Artic Circle. He was baptized 26 Jan 1860. They had to chop a hole in the ice for baptisms. Niels was born 8 Oct 1839 at Dahle Kvaefjord, Tromso, Norway. Amelia was born 26 July 1832 in Trondhjem, S.Tromso, Norway. In the spring of 1864 Father and Mother became acquainted on board ship coming from Norway to America, a voyage of eleven weeks. They fell in love and were married in Chicago. Father worked there as a cobbler to earn enough money to come to Utah. Father was a sort of “Jack of all trades” with carpenter’s and cobblers tools. They drove an ox team to Hyrum, Cache, Utah inn 1868. A Daughter Amelia was born to them 2 Jan 1869 at Hyrum, Niles Jacob Jr. was born 26 Apr 1870. My mother died 27 Sept 1827 leaving twin boys. My twin brother, Esau died 30 Oct 1872. A neighbor Josephine Peterson Larsen and her husband Lars K Larsen took me to raise as their own. Josephine was a good friend of my mother’s and had lost a baby of her own a short time before. Starting to nurse a baby after 8 or 10 days caused her sever pain and discomfort. I was never formally adopted because of the friendship for my mother. When I was two years of age my father married again and wanted me back. Mother Larsen couldn’t give me up, and asked the Bishop to intercede for her. During my early childhood I didn’t know of any other parents and was called Jacob Larsen and raised with their children as a brother. I started school at seven years of age. Igvald C Thoresen was the teacher in the little rock schoolhouse. Oluf Rose was in the same class. Father Larsen was very fond of me and took me with him whenever he could, driving teams and sawing wood in the canyon. I was baptized 9 Nov 1880 by Christopher Winge and confirmed. I was Ordained to each office in the Aaronic Priesthood and officiated in them. Lars K Larsen ordained me an Elder 3 Jan 1894. Everyone was re-baptized before going to the Temple for marriage. I was baptized 1 Dec 1896 by Andrew Allen and confirmed by Ole H Rose. My schooling in Hyrum continued until I was 16 years of age. One year I did attend school and not having enough to keep me busy, I got into bad company. I played cards in the store. The loser had to buy crackers ad salmon for your lunch. A wonderful teacher, Anna Noble, gave me encouragement and a desire to higher education. I won a Bible in a mental arithmetic contest, In 1893, Mother Larsen convince me that I should go to Brigham Young Collage in Logan. I lived and batched with Alvin Allen from Hyrum. His mother furnished a food basket one week and my mother furnished it the next. In 1894 my roommate was Charles A Jensen of Hyrum. In 1895 I lived alone and finished school in the spring of 1896 with a normal school certificate. This wonderful church school planted a love of the gospel in my heart. Teachers such as Joshua H Paul, Douglas M Todd, and Ephraim G Gowen were some of the most wonderful men I have ever know. On 17 Dec 1896 I married Wilhelmina Albertine Rose of Hyrum. She was a neighbor whom I had known all my life. I fell in love with her at her father’s dairy where she was a dairymaid and I was a herder. The herd was kept in Blacksmith fork Canyon. That winter of 1896-97 I taught schooling Hyrum District under Principal C. F. Olsen. My schoolroom was a little one-room log cabin in Blacksmith Fork Hollow. I rode my brother, Lorenzo’s Horse over and back each day, carrying my lunch and hay for the horse. My salary for the first year was $25 per month. I went to summer school in Logan at A. C and B. Y. C. and taught school the next year at Mount Sterling District as Principal over two small schools. My salary was $35 per month. We lived about one block from the Rose home. The next summer I went on the thresher with; my brother Niels. I had planned to teach school the next winter but did not pass the exam. I spent the winter logging in Blacksmith Fork Canyon. Leona Emelia was born 4 Apr 1898 in Hyrum. In 1898 I went to Marsh Valley near Downey, Idaho with my brother Niels and filed on a 160 acre homestead. In 1899 we moved to the homestead and lived on the Cherry Creek in a tent during the summer and returned to Hyrum for the winter. That winter I received a mission call I agreed to go but was advised to stay on the homestead until I made final proof. I built a one-room home up on the hill above the creek. We borrowed cows to milk from the wealthy rancher of Woodland and sold butter and eggs in Downey for groceries and blacksmith bills, etc. Cora Ann was born in Hyrum 14 Apr 1903. For seven years we saved and prepared for that mission. I had $550 in cash with me for my mission. In 1906 I wrote to the Church leaders that I was ready to go. They sent me to the Swedish mission. Heber J Grant was president of the European Mission. He met us at Liverpool. There were 28 missionaries-all of us were homesick. Pres. Grant gave us a remedy for homesickness – work; work; work; Nine of use were assigned to Scandinavia. In Copenhagen, Pres. N. J. Christensen interviewed each of us. Then he learned that my people were Norwegian and that I could speak some of the language he sent me to Norway. In Oslo, I found my foster father Lars K Larsen Who was on his second mission. He was very happy and proud introducing me to his brother and sister and friends as his son. My first field of labor was the Tronhjem Conference where my mother’s people lived. In November, I sent to a companion to Niels Jensen on the Island of Vardo around the North Cape – about 200 miles east of hammer fest in the Arctic Circle. From about the 20th of November until the middle of January there was no daylight. The day the sun first came up out of the ocean in the south the guns of the fort were fired in celebration. Here I contracted a severe case of bronchitis and have since that time had weak bronchial tubes and now bronchial asthma. Sister Widtsoe, mother of Apostle John A Widtsoe, was a good friend to me in Torondhjem. She knew my mother was a Skanchy. A sister of her great friend Anthon L Skanchy, She asked me to baptize a couple who were he friends. I had been set apart for this mission 15 April 1906 and ordained a Seventy by J Golden Kimball of the First Council of Seventy. I returned from my first mission 20 June 1908. My wife and two little girls went to the homestead in the summer to cook for my half brother, Adolph, who worked the farm while I was away. They lived in Hyrum with her folks in the winter. She received one third of the crop each year and had saved $2,000 when I returned in 1908. With that $2,000 we bought 80 acres from Peter Christiansen. From that time on we grew wheat to buy more land to grow more wheat to buy more land until we had 1,100 acres. I was appointed 2nd Counselor to Bishop Henry H Wakley of Woodland Ward with William Phillips as 1st Counselor. I was ordained and set apart 20- Nov 1908 by Elder Orson Whitney. On 19 June 1909 I was made Bishop of the Woodland Ward and was ordained by Elder John Henry Smith of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Another daughter, Dora Rose, was born on the homestead 23 Oct 1909. We built a home in Downey and moved there in 1912. I was retained as Bishop of Woodland to four years. Soon after my release as Bishop, I was asked to fill the position of Superintendent of the Downey Ward Sunday School. I was also made 1st Counselor in the Stake High Priest’s Presidency and the class leader in the Downey Ward group. I taught classes in MIA and was active in the ward dramas. In 1919 I was called by Pres. George T Hyde to be clerk for the Portneuf Stake Presidency. I served in this capacity for 22 years. In the spring of 1941 I was released along with the Stake Presidency and made a High Counselor in the new organization. About the years 1934-1936 I was a member of the county committee of the Agricultural Adjustment Association. I worked in Pocatello and my son-in –law, Eugene England, came from school in Logan with my daughter, Dora, in the summer to run my farm on a one-fourth crop basis. Later, he started buying one half of the farm. We worked together until 1942 when he bought the rest of it. In 1944 I was called on a six month’s mission to the Northwestern States with headquarters at Portland, Oregon. This was during World War II when missionaries were scarce and I labored alone without a companion. This rather spoiled my mission because I didn’t like being alone. When I returned from my mission I had been released from the High Council and was asked to work on the Genealogical Committee. That same year I was called to officiate in the Logan Temple. I spent the first winter there alone in a little home which I bought. The next year we sold our home in Downey and my wife and daughter, Isabel, joined me in Logan. (Ruby Isabel was born 13 Aug 1914 at Downey, she was special needs.) This move was very hard for my wife. She never would have left the friends of almost fifty years to go to a strange town to live except to be with me in my work in the Temple. This work in the Temple gave me a greater love for my fellow men. Studying the book “Jesus the Christ” by Talmadge taught me to love Jesus Christ. My missionary work, along with prayer, study, work and the Holy Ghost have given me a firm testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the mission of Joseph Smith. Jacob died 12 Apr 1955 at Logan, Utah.
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