Jensen, Joseph, 1886-1974.

Jensen was born in 1886 in Salt Lake City, UT; received mining engineering degrees from the Univ. of Utah, the Royal School of Mines, Freiberg (Germany), and Columbia Univ.; worked at Tidewater Oil Co. and predecessors as a petroleum engineer and geologist, 1917-55; appointed to Water and Power Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1927; personally participated in the discovery and development of several oil fields in LA and wrote articles on those fields and methods used by the industry; served as chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California from 1949-70.

Biography

Jensen was born in 1886 in Salt Lake City, Utah; received mining engineering degrees from the University of Utah, the Royal School of Mines, Freiberg (Germany), and Columbia University; worked at Tidewater Oil Company and predecessors as a petroleum engineer and geologist, 1917-55; appointed to Water and Power Committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce in 1927; personally participated in the discovery and development of several oil fields in Los Angeles and wrote articles on those fields and methods used by the industry; served as chairman of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California from 1949-70.