Born in Kliplev, Aabenraa, Denmark. He served in the Danish Army during the second Slessvig-Holstein War. Seeing no end to the border feuding with Germany, and little opportunity for his children in Denmark, he resolved to send his children to the United States. And so in small groups, most of his children were sent to the US. Finally, his daughters and son in Humboldt, sent for him, their mother and their youngest sister.

NOTE that the gravemarker shown here incorrectly spells the family's surname. This is an error that Anna Jacobsen Carlson notes in her 1941 Jacobsen Genealogy.
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Baptisms, Marriages, Burials
Kliplev, Aabenraa, (Denmark)
Image 61, page 115 number 1 (in november)
Asmus Jacobsen
Birth: 25 November 1831
Baptism: December 4, 1831
Father: Jes Nissen Jacobsen
mother: Maria Margaretha Nissen
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1845 Census
Aabenraa, Lundtoft, Kliplev, Clipleff, 8. a Hufengebäude, 12, FT-1845, C4680
Name: Age: Marital status: Position in household: Occupation: Birth place:
Jens Nissen Jacobsen 44 Gift Hufner, Sandmann Porsbüll!! auf Uck Feld
Maria Margaretha Nissen 40 Gift seine Ehefrau Holm
Trinke Margaretha Jacobsen 19 Ugift ihre Kinder Clipleff
Nis Peter Jacobsen 17 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Asmus Jacobsen 14 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Anna Botilla Maria Jacobsen 11 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Christian Jacobsen 9 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Maria Catharina Jacobsen 6 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Anna Dorothea Jacobsen 4 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Jes Peter Jacobsen 1 Ugift ihre Kinder do. [Clipleff]
Lorenz Peter Jensen 20 Ugift Dienstbote do. [Clipleff]
Mariane Paulsen 21 Ugift Dienstbote Seegaardfeld

1860 Census
Aabenraa, Lundtoft, Kliplev, Kliplev, , 84, FT-1860, C9228
Name: Age: Marital status: Position in household: Occupation: Birth place:
Jes Nissen Jacobsen 59 gift Boelsmand,Sandemand Uge
Marie Margrethe Nissen 55 gift hans kone her i sognet
Nis Peter Jacobsen 32 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Christian Jacobsen 24 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Jes Peter Jacobsen 16 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Anne Botilla Jacobsen 26 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Marie Cathrine Jacobsen 21 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Christine Marie Jacobsen 13 ugift deres børn her i sognet
Asmus Asmussen 19 ugift Tjenestekarl her i sognet

NOTE: that here in 1860, Asmus Jacobsen is noted as Asmus Asmussen, age 19. Though it is true that Asmus Jacobsen's sister Trinke, married Lorenz Asmussen, Trinke's son Asmus is only 8 years of age in 1860. Lorenz, born in 1822, is likely too old to have a brother who is 19. We believe that Trinke is Lorenz's first wife, and so the unproven theory here is that "Asmus Asmussen" is actually Trinke's brother Asmus Jacobsen at age 29, 6 years after the first war with Germany, just 2 years before his marriage, and 4 years before the coming war with Germany.
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