Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Nelson, Francis 1869 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  FRANCIS NELSON, of Graham Lakes township, has resided in Nobles county and the

township where the now lives ever since he was three years of age, and is

therefore entitled to rank as one of the pioneer settlers. He was born in

Kroghville (a town, now extinct, named in honor of his mother's family,) near

New London, in Waupaca, county, Wis., on Feb. 1, 1869. Anton Nelson, our

subject's father, now resides in Kinbrae. His mother was Annie (Krogh) Nelson,

who died Nov. 23, 1893, at the age of 55 years.



  In 1871 Anton Nelson had come to Nobles county and traded a span of horses to

B. W. Woolstencroft for 208 acres of land on section 26, Graham Lakes township,

and in the spring of 1872 Francis and the rest of the family came out to the new

home. For many years the family lived in the log house on the bank of the lake

that had been erected by the original settler, and later for many years in a new

house erected on the same land. The Nelsons experienced all the hardships and

privations incident to the pioneer life of Nobles county, losing their crop each

of the seven years of the grasshopper visitation.



  Until he was eighteen years of age Francis lived on the home farm. During this

time he secured a good education. After obtaining a primary education in the

country schools of Graham Lakes township he attended the public schools of Fulda

one year and the Worthington high school three years, lacking one year of

graduating from that institution. After he left the home place Francis began to

shift for himself, and in 1891 purchased his present farm on section 27 at the

south end of East Graham lake, where he has since been engaged in farming. In

addition to his general farming he makes a specialty of thoroughbred horses and

has a number of fine predigreed Percheron horses. He holds a membership in the

Odd Fellows lodge at Dundee. He has served as assessor of his township four years.



  Mr. Nelson was married in Jackson county on Nov. 28, 1902, to Miss Celeste

Foote, a native of the county in which she was married. To them have been born

the following children: Clara, born Sept. 28, 1903; Robert, born June 25, 1905;

Julius, born April 1, 1906; Evelyn, born Sept. 21, 1907, died Dec. 23, 1907.





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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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