The Nelson Family

of Otter Tail County, Minnesota · from Sweden · documented from the public record

The family in the record

Ole P. Nelson b. 1859

parentsNels & Johanna

Ole P. Nelson

childrenMaria Nelson · Martin Nels Nelson · Hulda Christena Nelson · George Albert Nelson

Source: History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota (1916)

Their story

What the record says

Educated in public schools of Sweden.
Came to America in 1887 at age 28, settling at Manchester, New Hampshire.
Moved to Otter Tail county in 1889.
Worked farms near Eagle Lake until 1891, then bought eighty acres in Inman township, later adding forty acres each in sections 1 and 14.
His wife died June 3, 1892, leaving four children living at home.
Parents (Nels, father.
Johanna, mother) named in fragment carried from prior page.
Self-made man and successful farmer.

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