Biographical Sketch of John W. Nelson, Webster 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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John W. Nelson, an enterprising farmer of Ozark township, Webster Co.,
Mo., was born in Huntingdon, Penn., May 18, 1849 and is the son of John
and Elizabeth (Heffner) Nelson.  The father was born in Pennsylvania in
1820, and is now living in Bedford county, that state.  In 1862 he 
enlisted in the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, and was first lieu-
tenant of Company K.  February 4, 1863, he was severely wounded, near
Fairfax, Va., by Mosley's guerillas.  The mother was born in Huntingdon
county, Penn., in 1829, and died in her native county in 1851.  John W.
Nelson was the second of three children, two of whom are now living. 
His father being a miller, the early life of Mr. Nelson was spent in
his father's mill, but in 1864 he began working on the farm at $7 per
month, and in 1868 he rented a farm and began working for himself.  
This occupation he continued for nine years, and then purchased a por-
tion of the farm he had rented, and here cultivated the soil until the
fall of 1885, when he came to Webster county, Mo., settling where he 
now lives, and here he has since remained.  He is an industrious farmer
and was married October 6, 1870, to Miss Hannah R. Mann, who was born
in Bedford county, Penn., November 13, 1850 and who is the daughter of
George and Hester (Zimmers) Mann, natives of Pennsylvania.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Nelson are the parents of an interesting family of children: 
Myrtle, born in 1871; Mary E., born in 1874; Maggie M., born in 1876;
Elsie E., born in 1879; and William Roy, born in 1882.  Mr. Nelson is
a Democrat in politics, and he and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

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