Jens Sorensen, M.D. Jens Sorensen, M.D., a regular practicing physician and surgeon, located at No. 77 Canal street, Grand Rapids, is a native of Braband, near Aarhuus, Denmark, born on the 7th of October 1863. He was educated in his native country, his studies covering Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Danish, and English. He in fact mastered twelve languages, and is to-day able to speak and write them. His professional education was received in the university of Copenhagen, where he pursed a course covering eight years, and graduated from that, the only medical university in Denmark, on the last day of January, 1887, his examinations having covered the entire month. In 1885 he was a delegate to the medical students’ convention in London, England, where he met students from all the European nations. He was one of the fortunates who received the national stipendium—a donation of funds by the kingdom to certain of the best students completing the university course. This enabled him to spend a year in travel, and he visited various European cities, principally Leipsic. One of the conditions on receiving this stipendium is that the student shall make careful memorandums of what he observes in the various hospitals, colleges, etc., which he visits. This is published at the expense of the state and distributed among the students of the university. The doctor states the most interesting character whom he met on his European trip was Danant—the founder of the Red Cross society—whom he met in Switzerland. Another character whom he met was the French physician, Siebault, who sought to introduce hypnotism into the medical science. Returning from his trip, he established himself in practice in his native country. There he occupied a position in a department under the state corresponding nearly with our American health department in large cities. In 1892, owing to a cholera epidemic in Germany, that government sent calls to foreign countries for physicians, and Dr. Sorensen responded to this call and practiced in Hamburg for one year. From Hamburg he went to Edinburgh, thence to London, and thence to Liverpool. There he took and engagement on the steamship Toronto, and was physician on this vessel for seven trips across the Atlantic. The steamship company gave him transportation to the world’s fair in Chicago, where he met many of his countrymen and became imbued with the idea that the United States is a pretty good place to live in. From Chicago he went to Howard county, Nebr., where he was the county physician. He then moved to Omaha and practiced in that city for a short time, and still has his certificate from the state board of Nebraska. In July, 1898, he located in Grand Rapids, Mich., and here he has already established a very satisfactory practice. In February, 1898, his sister joined him, coming from Russia, where she had spent about eight years. The late czar of Russia married a daughter to the king of Denmark, and hence his association with the Russian royal family. Dr. Sorensen was married in western Nebraska, October 7, 1894, to Miss Annie Anderson, a native of Denmark, though reared in America. At the time of marriage, she was a student in Omaha Medical college, and is now engaged in practice with her husband. They have no living children. The doctor and wife are members of the Danish Lutheran church, and the doctor is a member of the Danish Medical society, and of the I. O. O. F. lodge, No. 11, of this city, and keeps up his dues in each. He is a genial, affable and scholarly gentleman, well up in his profession and destined to make his mark in the world. He is the only graduate of the university of Denmark in the state of Michigan. He is also the only X-ray expert in Grand Rapids, and is now constructing X-ray machines himself.