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Born 1876
From History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916)
ARTHUR W. NELSON.
The subject of the following sketch was born and has spent his entire life in Parkers Prairie township, where he has become a potent factor in the business progress, handling a full line of the most approved agricultural implements, and doing a prosperous business, all of which is the result of his upright dealings and affable manner in the treatment of his many customers.
Arthur W. Nelson, implement merchant, Parkers Prairie, Otter Tail county, was born on October [6, [876, in Parkers Prairie township, and is a son of Carl G. and Christina Nelson. He was educated at the public schools of Parkers Prairie, and as a young man followed farming on the old homestead in partnership with his brother, Alec, for about ten years. In 1908, he went into the general farm implement business for himself, which he still follows, doing a remunerative business, in addition to which lie owns a forty-acre farm on the outskirts of the village, where lie now resides. Politically, Mr. Nelson is an independent voter, and in religion he is a member of the Swedish Lutheran church.
Carl G. and Christina Nelson were both born in Sweden, where they followed farming, coming to America about 1861. making their first residence in Washington county, Minnesota, ami locating later at Parker's Prairie, Otter Tail comity..Minnesota, in 1870. Here they took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, where Mr. Nelson followed agriculture for the remainder of his active life. During the latter part of his life he spent three years in Florida and Kansas. He was one of the hard-struggling pioneers, and was always a public-spirited man. Carl G. and Christina Nelson were the parents of seven children: Peter, John, Ida and Cronnett, all deceased: and Alexander. Edward and Arthur W. Mr. Nelson was a member of the Swedish Lutheran church at Parkers Prairie, of which he was one of the builders.
Arthur W. Nelson was united in marriage on December 22, 1903, with Mabel Hawkinson, daughter of John Hawkinson, whose life history is presented elsewhere in this volume. One child has been born to this marriage. Everett Nelson.
Mr. Nelson is one of the public-spirited young men of the community, and has earned the high regard in which be is held by all who know him.
As printed in History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota : its people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families (1916). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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