Bio of NELSON, Swan (b.1852), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 562
SWAN NELSON
Swan Nelson, who for a number of years filled the responsible position of
weigh-master for the state of Minnesota, maintaining his residence and his
office in Minneapolis, was born March 26, 1852, in Hirby, Sweden, a son of Nels
and Elinor Nelson. He spent the period of his boyhood and youth in his native
country, pursuing his education there, and in 1875, when about twenty-three
years of age, came to the new world in company with his mother, his father
having died a number of years before when the son, Swan, was a young lad. Making
their way across the country they settled on a farm in Minnesota and for an
extended period Swan Nelson was connected with general agricultural pursuits and
with the grain business. He became identified with the grain trade in connection
with the farmers' alliance at Willmar, Minnesota, and while there residing he
was called to the position of weighmaster, remov­ing to Minneapolis to enter
upon the duties of this position, to which he was appointed by the state railway
and warehouse commission in 1897. With characteristic energy he entered upon the
discharge of his duties and his fidelity stood as an unquestioned fact in his
career. He continued to act in that connection to the time of his death and over
his official record there fell no shadow of wrong nor suspicion of evil.
In the year 1880 Mr. Nelson was united in marriage in Whitefield, Minnesota, to
Miss Christiana Johnson, and they became the parents of seven children: Alma,
now deceased; William; Minnie, the wife of Ernest E. Schiffer; Augusta; Alice;
Esther; and Pearl.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Nelson was connected with the Modern Woodmen of
America, while politically he was a republican, giving stalwart allegiance to
the party because of his firm belief in the efficacy of its principles as
factors in good government. He never had occasion to regret coming to the new
world, for here he found the business opportunities which he sought and gained
by himself a creditable place in political and social circles.