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HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. gNHRISTENSEN, THEODORE E., 449 farmer, Btockraiser and woolgrower of Gunnison, was born in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, December 28, 1845, son of Herman J. and Hannah. The family came to Manti in 1853. The father was a ship carpenter and millwright. He, in connection with N. S. Beach, Richard Hall and John Crawford, built a sawmill near Manti, which they \^ successfully ran for a number of years, when it was finally torn down, and not very long after he was employed to build a grist mill, now known as the Christofferson mill, in Manti. He was a very prominent man of this county, and was largely interested in the growth and development of Manti. Was one of the founders of the Manti City Savings Bank, in which he had a large interest, and of which he was vice-president at the time He was a of his death, which occurred June 26, 1897. stockman, woolgrower, farmer, freighter and merchant, and was one of the first settlers of Gunnison, in this county, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for many years, and was one of the largest woolgrowers in Sanpete, having and owning as many as 16,000 sheep at one time, and was once the heaviest cattle-raiser in the county. He was always staunch and true to his Theodore was friends and a liberal donor to charity. raised on the farm and when a young man the family moved to Gunnison, in the southern part of the county. He married at the age of 19 in Gunnison Ellen Wasden, daughter of Thomas and Alice Wasden, who were among the earliest settlers there, and where they recently died. Edward, Ellen, Mr. Christensen has seven children, viz. Mary, Albert, Belle, Laura and Newell, and Frank, deceased. He is quite an extensive stockowner and farmer, having 4,500 head of sheep, about 100 head of cattle, and has the finest orchard in the county at Christensen, three miles east of Gunnison at the mouth of Twelve-Mile Creek. In the near vicinity he has 500 acres of land, besides a nice, comfortable home in Gunnison. Is a large stockholder in the Gunnison Irrigation Company, having a very large reservoir located on Sanpitch river just north of where Six-Mile Creek empties, and is also a :