Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Nelson, B. P. 1840 - 
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    B. P. NELSON, one of the most prominent and successful business men in the
county, is a member of the firm of Nelson, Johnson & Larson, dealers in general
merchandise at Litchfield. Mr. Nelson is a native of Sweden, born on the 29th of
October, 1840, and is a son of Nels and Johanna Anderson. His early life was spent
in the land of his birth, but in 1862, with his parents, he embarked for America,
and after a voyage of eleven weeks they landed on the shores of the new world and
proceeded to St. Paul. It had been their intention to settle on Foot Lake, in
Kandiyohi county, Minn., but, learning of the Indian outbreak, their plans were
changed, and shortly afterward B. P. Nelson, our subject, went to Galesburg, Knox
county, Ill., where he remained from October, 1862, until the following May. We next
find him in Chicago, where he remained for six months at work in a brickyard. The
following winter was spent in the pineries of Michigan, after which he settled at
St. Paul, Minn., and for two years and a half worked in an agricultural warehouse
for Bigelow, Murdock & Co. After leaving there, for about a year he was at various
places, principally in Meeker county, and in Cottage Grove, and then went to
Nicollet county, and started a store at New Sweden. Two years and a half later he
sold his business to his brother in-law, John Burke, and came to Litchfield,
arriving here during the year 1871. Upon his arrival he, with his brother, Andrew
Nelson, engaged in the general mercantile business, and continued in it for three
years, when the business was sold to A. Cairncross. After this our subject was
engaged in farming and buying grain until 1880, when the present firm of Nelson,
Johnson & Larson was formed, and he has since devoted his time to the interests of
the firm.

      Mr. Nelson was married on the 31st of May, 1878, to Emily E. Johnson, and they
are the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other three—
Archie E., Clara E. and Bertram C. —are living.

      Mr. Nelson has taken a prominent and active interest in all matters of a
public nature, and he has been closely identified with the growth and development of
business enterprises of Litchfield. lie has been one of the directors of the Meeker
County Bank ever since its organization.


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

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