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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  J. MONROE NELSON, Dealer in Real Estate, Decatur, son of James and Barbara
(Fifer) Nelson, natives of Greensboro, N. C. was born in Orange County. N. C.,
on Christmas day, 1823. He was reared in Scipio, Ind., and received a good
English education at the common schools in that vicinity. He began teaching
school at the age of fifteen, and continued it for some years, studying law as
occasion permitted, and was admitted to the bar at Vernon, Ind., about 1845. He
practiced law till about 1850, and then went upon a farm. In 1856, he was
elected County Auditor, and held that position until 1864. He represented the
Third Congressional District as member of the State Board of Education, when he
moved to Newton County, Ind., and again farmed. While here, he served as County
Superintendent of Education for three years. In January, 1873, he came to
Decatur, where he has since resided. After coming here he followed farming for
some years, but having sold a portion of his farm at an enormous profit, and
bought other property near the city, he was enabled to effect large transactions
in real estate, and is now making that his exclusive business.

  Mr. Nelson was married February 14, 1850, to Miss Abbie Adams, of Dearborn
County, Ind., and daughter of Moses Adams, of Massachusetts, a soldier of the
War of 1812. Mr. Nelson has seven children, namely: George A., Ruth A., James
B., John C. F., Mattie Jennie, Mary Addie and Willie W. Mr. Nelson is a member
of the Masonic fraternity.

  James Nelson, the father of J. M. Nelson, was of Scotch-Irish descent; moved
from North Carolina to Jennings County, Ind., in 1830, and settled in Scipio,
where he died in 1845, at about seventy-five years of age. He reared three
children. His wife was a lady of German descent, and died in 1858, at the age of
seventy.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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