BIOGRAPHIES: Nels P. NELSON, Stanfold Township, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 5 October 2003 ************************************************************************ Nels P. Nelson has lived on his present farm in Section 23, Stanfold Township, for thirty years, and in that time has built up a good place. He came here from Pewaukee, Waukesha County, this state, in 1891, and secured his present tract of 80 acres, then consisting of wild cut-over land. He built a log house and barn, and cleared up some of the land, and was getting a good start in life, when everything was swept away by the great fire of 1898. He set to work with a will, however, and soon had a new frame house and barn erected. As prosperity increased he was later enabled to build a better house, a good barn with full basement, a garage, a granary, machine sheds and other buildings. He here successfully carries on general farming and dairying, having a good herd of graded cattle, headed by a Holstein sire. He sells cream to the cheese factory at Pleasant View, in which he is one of the stockholders. He was born in Denmark, May 13, 1866, the son of George and Mary Nelson, who are still farming in Norway. He attended the excellent government schools of his native land, and learned farming thoroughly from his father. He came to America in 1889, and located at Pewaukee, Waukesha County, Wis., from which place in 1891 he came to Barron County. Mr. Nelson was married Jan. 14, 1897, in Jefferson County, this state, to Lizzie Ziegelmann, daughter of Herman and Augusta Ziegelmann, both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have four children: Sophie, born Nov. 2, 1899, is a bookkeeper. Mabel, born June 15, 1901, is teaching school. Nora, born May 17, 1903, is attending school. Frances, born Aug. 17, 1905, is attending school. The family faith is that of the Methodist Episcopal Church. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 174-175. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm