Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Nelson, James 1860 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 395, 396

JAMES NELSON
	A man who has achieved a most brilliant success in his chosen 
occupation, who has demonstrated his executive ability and talent in 
financiering to be of the highest order, while his industry and thrift being 
no less manifest are quite commensurate with his moral integrity, frankness 
and uprightness, the subject of this sketch deserves a high rank among the 
stockmen of the west, and a worthy representation in these continuing 
chronicles of our county.  
	He was born in Yreka, California, in 1860, whence six years later he 
came to Grant county, and then in 1869 to Umatilla county, Oregon.  Here his 
father took up a place on Butter creek, where our subject still resides.  An 
account of the former’s murder in the Indian massacre if 1878 is given in 
another place in this volume.  Mr. Nelson has continuously followed the 
business of cattle raising and is considered one of the most progressive and 
enterprising men of this section.  For some time he also raised horses and 
sheep, but he is now dealing in cattle exclusively and has been since 1888. 
	In 1881, he was married to Miss Laura Lightfoot, an account of whose 
father also appears in this work.  To this happy union four children have been 
born: Samuel J., Charley, Laura C., and Mary M.  He has a real estate holding 
of two thousand and eight hundred acres of fine, well watered land and over 
four hundred head of graded cattle.  Fraternally he affiliates with the W. of 
W., Camp No. 41, of Pendleton.  He and his family are members of the Catholic 
church, and are living examples of the faith they hold.  Mr. Nelson enjoys the 
confidence and esteem of his fellows and is one of the most substantial men 
within the precincts of Umatilla county, being respected by all.  


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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