The Nelson Families of Buena Vista County, Iowa

OSCAR M. NELSON.

Oscar M. Nelson, one of the practical, progressive and respected farmers of Nokomis township, is living on section 13, where he owns and cultivates a farm of one hundred and twenty acres. He is numbered among the old settlers of the county, for Buena Vista was still large.v an undeveloped region when he took up his above within its borders in 1873. He was then a youth of ten years, his birth having occurred in the city of Rockford, Illinois, October 14. 1862. His father, A. P. Nelson, was a native of Sweden, who in early manhood came to the new world, settling in Rockford. Illinois, where for fourteen years he worked at the miller's trade. He was married at Rockford to Miss Mary S. Styf, also a native of Sweden, and three sons were born unto them ere their removal to Iowa. Mr. Nelson visited this state in 1872, purchased a tract of raw land and the following year removed his family to this place. With characteristic energy he began to till the soil and improve the farm, and made it one of the well developed properties of that locality.v. Both he and his wife have passed away and in their death the community lost two of its industrious and worthy citizens.

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Mr. Nelson made further preparation for having a bine of his own by marrying in June, 1888, Miss Anna C. Bladine, who was born in Sweden but was reared in America. For a year after their marriage the young couple

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Andrew Nelson who has continuously followed farming in Providence township, Bueiui Vista county, since 1889, now owns a well improved farm of eighty acres. He was born in Iowa, November 28, 187;" a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cris Nelson, both of whom were natives of Dennuirk. The father was a soldier in the Danish army and when third.y years of age, believing that he might better provide for his family in the new world, he emigrated to America when thirty years of age. Pure-basing a farm near Cedar Falls, Iowa, he located thereon and for manyyears was actively and busily engaged in carrying on general farming but is now living retired in New Hartford, this state. He is a democrat in his political belief, while in religious faith be is an Adventist. He still survives but the mother departed this life in 1898. Their familynumbers three sons, the brothers of our subject being: Henry, a resident of New Hartford, Iowa; and Peter, who is engaged in the nursery business in California.

Andrew Nelson pursued his education in the district schools of Grundy county, this state, to the age of sixteen years, subsequent to which time he gave his father the full benefit of his time and service on the home farm. He remained under the parental roof until he had attained his majority, when he took up his above in Buena Vista county, purchasing eighty acres of land in Providence township. He has improved the place with good buildings and has placed his fields under a high state of cultivation, so that each year they produce good crops of wheat, corn and oats.

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LARS A. NELSON.

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