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Jensen, Arlene B. (Arlene Breinholt), 1935-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1935-

Biographical History

Arlene B. Jensen (1935- ) was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a housewife and a genealogist from Logan, Utah.

Arlene Breinholt Jensen was born on September 24, 1935 to Sterling and Maurine Cowley Breinholt in Venice, Utah. She attended Utah State University and married Bartell C. Jensen. They eventually settled in Logan, Utah. She and her husband were active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in a number of callings. In 1995 Bartell C. Jensen was called as a mission president for the Church. Arlene Breinholt inherited a number of historical items from the Cowley and Breinholt families and compiled a scrapbook of genealogical information on the Cowley family.

Citation:
Deseret News, February 17, 1996: (m. to Bartell C. Jensen; attended Utah State University; b. to Sterling and Maurine Cowley Breinholt in Venice, Utah; husband called as mission president for LDS Church)

UPB files, April 18, 2013: (b. 9/24/35)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Arlene B. Jensen collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3094
Scope and Contents

Collections contains journals and account books written by Charles Caesar Cowley, Joseph Enos Cowley, and Jens Christian Larsen Breinholt, as well as photographs of Charles Caesar Cowley dating from around 1840 to 1902. These materials were collected by Arlene Jensen, a decendent of these men. Also contains a scrapbook of family history materials compiled by Arlene Jensen in the 1970s and 1980s and a number of documents about the Cowley family.

Dates: approximately 1970-1990; approximately 1840-1902
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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