Biographical Sketch of Owen A. Nelson, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Owen A. Nelson, county treasurer of Camden county, Mo., was born in
Posey county, Ind., August 29, 1854, and is the son of Alexander G. and
Sarah A. (Highman) Nelson, the former a native of Posey county, Ind.,
and the latter of Iowa.  The father was a blacksmith by trade, but 
never followed it for a livelihood, for farming was his principal occu-
pation.  He left Indiana at the beginning of the late war, and went to
White county, Ill., where he remained until 1868, when he moved with 
his family to Camden county, Mo., and located near Linn Creek, where he
died in 1881.  The mother is still living.  They were the parents of 
four children, all sons: Owen A., John W., George W. and Grant.  Owen 
A. Nelson was but a small lad when his parents moved to White county,
Ill.  He assisted his father on the farm until 1868, when he came to
Missouri, locating in Camden county, where he has since made his home.
He was elected treasurer of Camden county in 1886, and re-elected in
1888.  He is a prominent citizen of the county.  He was married in 1876
to Miss Mary A. Russell, by whom he had two children: William G. and
George E.  Mrs. Nelson died in 1881, and he married for his second wife
February 1, 1883, Miss Amanda J. Scofield, a native of Iowa, who bore 
him one child, Hugh R.  Mrs. Nelson is a member of the Baptist Church,
and he is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the I. O. O. F.  His
grandfather Nelson was an early settler of Posey County, Indiana.

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