Martin Mortensen
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Martin Mortensen was an American Professor and Head of the Department of Dairy Industry at Iowa State College in Ames, Iowa
, United States
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in Sindal
, Denmark
. He completed a three-year course at the Royal Teachers Seminary and then emigrated to the America in 1893. After working in and managing dairies in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast
, he received a B.A. in Agriculture
at Iowa State College (1908). He subsequently received a LLD. (1934) from Kansas State College.
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He married Amelia Christensen (1878–1945) of Royal, Iowa and had two children, Marie Mortensen Biele (born 1901) and Edna Mortensen Kiely (born 1908). In 1927 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and in 1950 received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog.
Ames, Iowa
Ames is a city located in the central part of the U.S. state of Iowa in Story County, and approximately north of Des Moines. The U.S. Census Bureau designates that Ames, Iowa metropolitan statistical area as encompassing all of Story County, and which, when combined with the Boone, Iowa...
, United States
United States
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Background
Martin Mortensen was born on the island of Vendsyssel-ThyVendsyssel-Thy
The North Jutlandic Island , Vendsyssel-Thy, or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord are lesser-used names for the northernmost part of Denmark and of Jutland. It is more common to refer to the three traditional districts Vendsyssel, Hanherred and Thy...
in Sindal
Sindal
Sindal is a town with a population of 3,081 and a former municipality in Hjørring municipality in Region Nordjylland on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark...
, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. He completed a three-year course at the Royal Teachers Seminary and then emigrated to the America in 1893. After working in and managing dairies in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast
Pacific Coast
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, he received a B.A. in Agriculture
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
at Iowa State College (1908). He subsequently received a LLD. (1934) from Kansas State College.
Career
Mortensen became Head of the Dairy Industry Department at Iowa State College in 1909 until 1938, and remained as a professor until 1953. He authored text books and also bulletins on dairy research. He was the past president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of the American Dairy Science AssociationAmerican Dairy Science Association
The American Dairy Science Association is a non-profit professional organization for the advancement of dairy science. ADSA is headquartered in Savoy, Illinois, located near the Urbana-Champaign, Illinois area....
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He married Amelia Christensen (1878–1945) of Royal, Iowa and had two children, Marie Mortensen Biele (born 1901) and Edna Mortensen Kiely (born 1908). In 1927 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog and in 1950 received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog.