Philip A. Nelson

As printed in 1912

PHILIP A. NELSON (1893) is the proprietor of a" well-improved half section of land three and one-half miles north of Tracy, one of the best farms in Amiret township. Besides this place Mr. Nelson owns eighty acres of land in Redwood county. He raises Shorthorn cattle extensively and may well be proud of his stock.

Mr. Nelson was born in Nicollet county, Minnesota, July 5, 1869, and is a son of C. J. and Emily (Pierson) Nelson, natives of Sweden. His parents came to America in 18 59 and remained in New York one year, where C. J. Nelson found employment. They then moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota, and after spending one year in that county settled in Nicollet county, where they had taken a homestead. It was during the family's ten year residence in that county that the subject of this sketch was born.

The Nelson family moved to Minneapolis from Nicollet county, and after one year's residence in that city they went to Redwood county, in 1873, and took preemption and tree claims. There Philip received his education, remaining at home until twenty-one years of age. He then bought eighty acres of railroad land in the county and started farming for himself, shortly after buying an additional eighty. After three years of farming our subject traded his quarter section for the southeast quarter of section 36, Amiret township, Lyon county, and has since acquired additional land.

.Mr. Nelson was married in Redwood county December 31, 189 5, to Anna Johnson. She was born in England September 7, 1871, and is a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Charlton) Johnson, natives of England. The parents now reside in Amiret township. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson three children have been born: William, born April 7, 1897, and [name withheld], born October 12, 1906.

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.