Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Nelson, Franz Edward 1878 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

FRANZ EDWARD NELSON.

    One of the native sons of Cottage Hill township, Marshall county, who has
won a prominent and influential place among the residents of his home township,
is Franz Edward Nelson, the present trustee of the township and one of its
successful farmers, who was born on September, 1878, and is the son of C. O. and
Anna Matilda (Anderson) Nelson.

    C. O. Nelson was born in Sweden on October 8, 1845, and there received his
education in the public schools and resided until he was twenty-four years of
age, when in 1869, he decided to come to America. On his arrival in this country
he came direct to Kansas, and here he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of
land in Cottage Hill township, one and one-half miles southwest of where Franz
Edward now lives. This farm he developed and improved into one of the best in
the township. He engaged in general farming and stock raising with success until
1902, when he moved to Waterville, where he has since lived a retired life. He
increased his land holdings after a time and is now the owner of four hundred
and eighty acres of splendid land, after having assisted his children to good
homes and farms.

    As a young man Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Anna Matilda Anderson,
who was born in Sweden on September 25, 1845. She spent her early life in that
country and when yet a girl she came to the United States with her parents. To
this union the following children have been born: Annie Ollie, Sophie, Laura
Alida, Frank Edward, Alfred William, Clarence Victor and Amanda. Annie Ollie
Johnson resides in Waterville, Kansas, where her husband is one of the leading
carpenters of the town; Sophie Hager is a resident of Riley county, Kansas,
where her husband is engaged in general farming and stock raising; Laura Alida
is the wife of Sander Larson, a farmer of Cottage Hill township; Clarence Victor
is engaged in farming on the old home place and Amanda is at home. Mr. and Mrs.
Nelson are active members of the Lutheran church and are prominent residents of
the community in which they live, and where they are held in such high regard.

    Franz Edward Nelson received his primary education in the common schools of
the township and later attended Bethany College at Lindsborg, where he completed
the business and commercial courses in 1905. He then returned to the home farm,
where he remained for two years and then purchased his present place, onto which
he moved in 1906. He has made many valuable improvements and has developed his
farm to a high standard of excellence and is engaged in general farming and
stock raising with marked success.

    On June 6, 1905, Franz Edward Nelson was married to Caroline Catherine
White, who was born on June 14, 1877, in Denmark and is the daughter of Peter
and Hannah (Madison) White, the former having been born in 1844 and died in 1880
and the latter was born in 1844, on May 6. Peter White and his family continued
to live in Denmark until 1878, when they came to the United States and at once
established a home in Walnut township, Marshall county, where the father died,
and since the death of her husband, Mrs. White has resided in Washington county,
Kansas. They were the parents of the following children: Dorathy, Margaret,
Catherine and Mary. Dorathy Stenson resides in Cottage Hill, where Mr. Stenson
is engaged in general farming and stock raising on his farm one mile south of
the home of Mr. Nelson; Margaret resides in Marysville, where she is engaged in
dressmaking, and Mary is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. White were members of the
Lutheran church and reared their children in that faith. To Franz Edward and
Catherine Nelson one child has been born, Margaret, whose birth occurred on
November 11, 1908, and she is now a pupil in the public schools.

    Mr. Nelson is independent in politics and has served his township as trustee
and as assessor and was for a number of years a member of the local school
board. He takes much interest in the Farmers Union, of which he is a member and
he and his wife are active members of the Lutheran church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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