Jens & Ida Borglum
Information comes from the Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series
Jens Moller Haugaard Borglum was born 18 Apr 1839 in Wansted, Hjorring Demark and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, August 27, 1856 and was prominent in the Daniel Mormon Church before coming to Salt Lake City. On the way to this country, he married Ida Michelsen of the Mormon immigrant party he was accompanying. They married in Liverpool, England 27 Apr 1864, before setting sail April 28. They arrived in Salt Lake in William B Preston's party on 15 Sep 1864; and some time before 1867, he entered into plural marriage. His second wife, Christina Michelsen was the sister of the first.
In 1866 they moved to Bear Lake; in 1868 they moved to Ogden, Utah and finally in 1869 (according to an obituary in a Danish Mormon periodical) they moved to Omaha.
Children of Jens Borglum and Ida Michelsen
1. Jens H M Borglum Jr. b-10 Mar 1865 in Salt
Lake City
2. August M Borlum b-27 Apr 1867 near St Charles in Bear Lake
3. Arnold Borglum b-2 June 1869 in Omaha Nebraska
4. Frank L Borglum b-Omaha Nebraska
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Children of Jens Moller Borglum and Christina Michelsen
1. Gutzon Borglum b-25 Mar 1867 near St Charles
in Bear Lake;
2. Solon Borglum b-22 Dec 1868 in Ogden Utah; d-6 Mar 1941 in Chicago Ill
Gutzon Borglum
At the age of seven, Gutzon moved to Nebraska, and later graduated from Creighton Preparatory School. He was trained in Paris at the Academie Julian, where he came to know Auguste Rodin and was influenced by Rodin's impressionistic light-catching surfaces. Back in the U.S. in New York City, he sculpted saints and apostles for the new Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in 1901, got a sculpture accepted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art-the first sculpture by a living American the museum had ever purchased—and made his presence further felt with some portraits. He also won the Logan Medal of the arts.
After graduation from Harvard Technical College, his reputation surpassed that of his younger brother, Solon Borglum, already an established sculptor. He is best known for his Mt Rushmore project and died before that project was completed. His son Lincoln finished the project. Gutzon was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale Ill.