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Born 1862
From An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912)
GUST NELSON (1907), Rock Lake township farmer, was born in Motolo, Sweden, June 9, 1862. His parents, Anders P. and Matilda Nelson, are deceased, the father having passed away in the old country and the mother in New York City.
Gust was a student of the public schools until fifteen years old and thereafter until 1881 he worked at farm labor in his native land. In June of the last named year Mr.
Nelson crossed the sea, worked in a blacksmith shop in New York City one year, was in Chicago for a time, and then located in Ida county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming eighteen years. Mr. Nelson then bought land in Murray county, Minnesota, and resided on the farm until the fall of 1907. At that time he came to Lyon county and has since farmer the southeast quarter of section 17, Rock Lake township. He engaged in stock raising as well as grain farming and has been successful. He is a stockholder of the Farmers Elevator Company of Lake Wilson.
Mr. Nelson was married in 1890 to Anna Matilda Larson, who was born in Sweden June 9, 1863. They have two children, Albert and Ellen (Mrs. Albin W. Nelson), both of Rock Lake township.
As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Albin W Nelson (b. 1890)
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