From the Hartford Courant:
OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT -- Oliver Jensen, who helped start the Essex, CT-based Valley Railroad, was a founder of American Heritage magazine and served as a commanding presence in town, died June 30 at the age of 91. Jensen helped found the magazine "American Heritage" 51 years ago with two other men, and was its editor for 17 years, , but locally he was better known for co-founding the Valley Railroad.
"He had two great passions," his close friend Ellsworth Grant said Friday. "One was British history. He could recite every king and queen of England. The other was railroads. He was an authority on all U.S. railroads and wrote books about them," said Grant, who was a neighbor of Jensen's in Fenwick borough for decades.
In the 1970s and '80s, Jensen was president and chairman of the Valley Railroad, the restored steam line that he helped start and make a popular tourist attraction. He was also the chief of the Division of Prints and Photographs at the Library of Congress from 1981 to 1983. He said he didn't care for the job because it was too far from Old Saybrook.
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OLD SAYBROOK, CONNECTICUT -- Oliver Jensen, who helped start the Essex, CT-based Valley Railroad, was a founder of American Heritage magazine and served as a commanding presence in town, died June 30 at the age of 91. Jensen helped found the magazine "American Heritage" 51 years ago with two other men, and was its editor for 17 years, , but locally he was better known for co-founding the Valley Railroad.
"He had two great passions," his close friend Ellsworth Grant said Friday. "One was British history. He could recite every king and queen of England. The other was railroads. He was an authority on all U.S. railroads and wrote books about them," said Grant, who was a neighbor of Jensen's in Fenwick borough for decades.
In the 1970s and '80s, Jensen was president and chairman of the Valley Railroad, the restored steam line that he helped start and make a popular tourist attraction. He was also the chief of the Division of Prints and Photographs at the Library of Congress from 1981 to 1983. He said he didn't care for the job because it was too far from Old Saybrook.
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