jack Jorgensen

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 (5 July 1842 – 20 January 1880) 

We don't know a lot about Jack Jorgensen (sometimes Jorgenson), only what the papers reported at the time. 

He was born in Berlin in 1842 and given the name Johanna Jorgenson. 

At some stage he migrated to Australia where he worked in a variety of jobs around several states. 

He was a lady's man, wooing a number of women, and he joined the Mounted Riflemen, a regiment of volunteer solders.  He had a scar on his face, and maybe an injured eye which he told people had come from a battle but his sister claimed he had been kicked in the face by a horse before he was 16. 

He was a hard worker and a friendly fellow, he was known for his pipe and for occasionally shouting everyone at the pub a drink. 

In 1873 he was bought to court for wearing masculine attire, but that didn't stopped him dressing the way he wanted to. 

Image is not Jorgenson but a soldier with the Victoria Mounted Rifles, and a kangaroo, from the State Library of Victoria's collection: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/4679