Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Clements, Nels 1860 - 
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NELS CLEMENTS, of Litchfield, is the son of Nels and Betsy Clements, and was born in
Meeker county May 14, 1860. His parents, natives of Sweden, came to Meeker county in
1857, and on the 20th of August-settled in the town of Litchfield on a farm, where
they lived until the death of the father, in 1870. During the time of the Indian
outbreak Nels Clements removed for safety to Forest City, and manfully did his part
toward the building of the stockade and its defense. Having been on friendly terms
with the Indians, they did not destroy his house, but stole all the provisions and
stock that were left on the place.

   Nels remained at home upon the paternal farm until he was of age, on attaining
which he went to Minneapolis, but returned during the following winter. The season
of 1882 he spent in Montana, but, returning to this county in 1883, he located in
Grove City, and went into the farm-machinery business. In 1884 he came to Litchfield
and tended bar for S. A. Scarp, but in October, 1886, opened the saloon he now runs.
He was married April 30,1886, to Miss Kate Menten, a native of Meeker county, Minn.,
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Menten, natives of Germany. By this union
there has been born one child— Mary, whose birth took place May 9, 1887.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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