Background
Martin Mortensen was born on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy in Sindal, Denmark. He was the son of Peder Christian Mortensen (1821-1902)and Juliane Marie (Larsen) Mortensen (1827-1904).
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Martin Mortensen was born on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy in Sindal, Denmark. He was the son of Peder Christian Mortensen (1821-1902)and Juliane Marie (Larsen) Mortensen (1827-1904).
He completed a three-year course at the Royal Teachers Seminary and then emigrated to the America in 1893.
After working in and managing dairies in the Midwest and on the Pacific Coast, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Agriculture at Iowa State College (1908). He subsequently received a Doctor of Laws. (1934) from Kansas State College. Mortensen became Head of the Dairy Industry Department at Iowa State College in 1909 until 1938, and remained as a professor until 1953.
He authored text books and also bulletins on dairy research.
He was the past president, vice-president and secretary-treasurer of the American Dairy Science Association.
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)