Biography
Lund was born in Aalborg, Denmark to unmarried parents and raised by his maternal grandmother until his emigration to the United States in 1862. Lund's mother died when he was less than four years old. At that time his father was serving in the war over Schleswig-Holstein. Lund was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the age of 12, he soon assisted the missionaries fulfilling his duties as both a teacher and then a priest in the Aaronic Priesthood in declaring the word of God. In 1862 Lund went with his grandmother to the United States. He arrived in Utah in September and settled in Sanpete County, following the tradition of many Scandinavian immigrants.
In 1864 Lund was a teamster in a Down and Back company. The next winter he served as a school teacher. In 1865 he responded to Brigham Young's request that men come to Salt Lake City and learn to be telegraph operators. In 1866 he became the telegraph operator for the Mount Pleasant, Utah station where he was ordained a Seventy by Peter Madsen Peel.
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