WILLIAM N. NELSON
               Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 179.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


WILLIAM N. NELSON, LAKE CHARLES .-William Nelson is a native of Sweden, born
April, 2, 1844. He is the son of John G. and Elise A. (Nielson) Nelson. His
father was a native of Newcastle on Tyne, and his mother of Sweden. John
G. Nelson was a stone  mason and builder. He located in Sweden in 1833. Five
children were born to this union, two sons and three daughters, the subject of
this sketch being the only surviving member of the family. Both his father and
mother died in Sweden, the former in 1889 and the latter in 1868.
William Nelson came from Sweden to New York in 1866, removing from there to
Mexico, and thence to Texas, and from there to Louisiana in 1869. The same year
he married Miss Anna L. Johnson, a resident of St. Mary parish, but a native of
Illinois. They are the parents of seven children, four sons and three daughters,
of whom five are living, viz: Jesse J., Paul J., Harry W., Rosalee, and
Frederick N.  Mr. Nelson is a prosperous planter, and has a plantation of four
hundred and sixty acres of land, eighty of which are under cultivation.. On it
he raises a. variety of products, the principal of which are rice, corn, and
sugar cane. He also owns twelve acres of orchard, in which he has two thousand
orange trees, pears of several choice varieties, a fine variety of peaches and
grapes. His farm is located two and a half miles by railroad east of Lake
Charles. Mr. Nelson is a member of the following named orders: Masonic,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor, Independent Order of Good
Templars. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.