Jens Henrik Beer
Jens Henrik Beer (11 June 1799 – 22 June 1881) was a Norwegian businessperson, farmer and politician.
He was born in
Jens Henrik Beer, Sr. He attended school in Bergen and England, and then worked for a period in Bergen before returning to his hometown in 1821. In 1824 he married Andrea Laurentze Mølbach (1802–1872).[1]
He worked as a
Parliament of Norway in 1836, representing the rural constituency of Lister og Mandals Amt. He sat through only one term.[2] He was mayor of Flekkefjord in 1840, and his brother was mayor in 1843.[3]
In 1830 he bought some land at Øysanden near
distillery.[1] However, the distillery was unpopular among the local populace, and went defunct after ten years.[5] He finally pulled out of Flekkefjord's ship industry in 1854, and died in June 1881 in Kvinesdal.[1]
References
- ^ (in Norwegian). Vol. 1 (1 ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. pp. 408–409.
- ^ a b "Jens Henrik Beer" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). Retrieved 27 August 2008. Archived 26 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ringard, Morten (1942). Flekkefjords historie (in Norwegian). Flekkefjord: Flekkefjord Municipality. p. 134.
- Store norske leksikon(in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
- ^ En Krønike om Kvinesdal Archived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, by Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae, 1894.
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