Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Number 1, 1966

It is said that the most pleasant thing in the world is to have pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

Reminiscing can be a lovely thing if one's own thoughts are directed to the finest memories of the past, and on the pleasant experiences which come to everyone's life.

O n e of my fondest recollections is of the years spent in the old hotel, known as T h e Elsinore House, which was owned and operated by my parents, Jens and Inger Jensen. Most likely these memoirs will interest no one except my family, but I am writing for my own pleasure and with the hope that my children will appreciate knowing about a very interesting period of my life.

This is the story of a pioneer hotel in Elsinore, Utah, owned by Bishop Jens Iver Jensen and his wife, Inger Sondergaard Jensen, members of the Danish group who settled Elsinore. In this hotel lived the Jensen children from 1897 until the time of their marriages. The children were Charles, Daniel P., E m m a (Mrs. Herbert Z. L u n d ) , Walter, Wilhelmina (Mrs. Frederick Horace G u n n ) , and Clementine (Mrs. J o h n W. H a g a n ) .

Wilhelmina (Minnie) wrote this engaging account for her children. In it she describes the turn-of-the-century experiences when she and two teen-age sisters were growing up and working in The Elsinore House. From it emerges the gentle humor and natural warmth of a bygone pioneer day.

T h e pictures of the Jensen family and T h e Elsinore House are courtesy Mrs. Edith Ann Lloyd, daughter of the author.