Christian Peter Abild Jenssen - C.P.A. Jenssen was born in Ballum Schlesvig, Denmark on July 21, 1859.

He came to the united States with his brother Jens in 1880 and worked in New York for a time.

In 1882, he took Homestead in North Dakota and moved there. In 1886, he went to Clinton, Iowa to marry Bergette Fredrickson, a girl he met in Denmark, and who was working in Iowa. They went to Denmark on their honeymoon and stayed for simetime. Their first child was born there.

Then they came back to his Homestead in north Dakota. He also ran a hotel and a livery stable in Dwight, North Dakota for sometime. They returned to Denmark in 1901.

They came back to the United States and found land and settled in Bone Lake Township near Ward Lake in 1902.

C.P.A. farmed, and was town chairman for Bone Lake Township from 1913 to 1921. He became County Surveyor in 1922 to 1942. A job he held for 20 years. He retired in 1942 at age 83.

C.P.A. Jenssen was known for his ability to run a line thru brush, a job which many surveyors had difficulty with.

Eight children were born to them. Marie, Mrs. Allen Fahland, Johanna, Mrs. Marinus Jensen, Mariana, Mrs. Jens Peterson, Annie, Mrs. Joe Hermstad, Jens, Chris, Fred and Abild Jenssen.

Abild gave C.P.A.'s surveying equipment to the Polk County Museum in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. It is on exhibit there.

C.P.A. lived with his son Abild on the farm for sometime and then spent his last days with his son Chris in St. Paul, Minnesota.. He died June 19, 1945 of a heart attack. He was 85 years, 10 months, and 25 days old.