Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the 
Cascades.  Vol. III.  Chicago, S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  
p. 314-315.

JACOBSEN, DR. LEONARD H., mayor of Stanwood and now actively 
connected with the Stanwood Hospital, was born in Luverne, Minnesota, 
August 19, 1879, a son of William and Milla (Erickson) Jacobsen, the 
former a native of Norway, while the latter was born in Iowa.  The 
mother's people came to this country at an early period, settling in 
the Hawkeye state, and the father crossed the Atlantic to the new world 
when a young man of twenty-one years.  He first took up his abode in 
Winneshiek county, Iowa, where he turned his attention to mercantile 
lines, and after his removal to Minnesota he continued in the same field 
of business.  For a number of years prior to his death he was president 
of the First National Bank of Luverne, Minnesota, and became a prominent 
and influential business man of that place.  He was called to his final 
rest in 1906, when he had reached the age of sixty years, and his widow 
is still living at Luverne at the age of fifty-eight years.  In their family 
were seven children, all of whom survive, namely: Mrs. C. H. 
Christopherson, of Luverne; William, liiving in Luverne; Leonard H.; 
Walter, whose home is in Howard, South Dakota; Nora, a school teacher 
in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Jessie, who is a music teacher in Minneapolis; 
and Milton, who is a student in the University of Minnesota.
	A the usual age Dr. Jacobsen became a pupil in the public schools of 
Luverne, Minnesota, and passed through consecutive grades to the high 
school.  He afterward did academic work and for one year was a student 
in the University of Minnesota.  He then matriculated in the Medical 
College of the University of MInnesota, from which he was graduated in 
1905, subsequent to which time he spent a year as interne in the Luther 
Hospital at St. Paul and thus gained that broad experience and wide 
knowledge that one quickly secures in hospital practice.  In 1915 he was 
a student in the Chicago Post Graduate School.
	Dr. Jacobsen entered upon the active practice of his profession in 
Seattle, Washington, and was ship physician on the steamer Dakota for 
one year, sailing out of Seattle.  In 1911 he came to Stanwood, where he 
has since built up a large and growing practice.  In that year he bought out 
the Stanwood Hospital, of which he has since been chief physician.  He was 
appointed health officer for Stanwood and served in that capacity for four 
years.
	On the 20th of March, 1909, Dr. Jacobsen was married in Seattle, 
Washington, to Miss Ella Thorsen, a daughter of the Rev. J. A. Thorsen, 
residing at Byron, Minnesota.  He has just resigned after forty-six years of 
work in connection with the ministry.  To Dr. and Mrs. Jacobsen have been 
born two children: Harold, born in Seattle March 10, 1910; and William, born 
in Stanwood, February 23, 1913.
	Dr. Jacobsen belongs to the Sons of Norway and to the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows.  His political endorsement is given to the republican party 
and he served for three years as a member of the city council of Stanwood.  
He is now serving as mayor of the city, having been elected in 1915.  Along 
strictly professional lines he has connection with the Snohomish County 
Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society, and the American 
Medical Association and thus he keeps in close touch with the latest 
scientific research, investigation and discoveries.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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