BIOGRAPHIES: Ludvig E. NELSON, Elk Mound Township, Dunn 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. Submitted by: Laura Abood 13 January 2004 ************************************************************************ LUDVIG E. NELSON, who is engaged in general and dairy farming in Section 12 of the town of Elk Mound, of which he is a substantial and useful citizen, was born in this town Sept. 4, 1873, son of Tille and Anna (Tilleson) Nelson. The parents were natives of Barrum, Norway, who came to this country as young people and were married in Elk Mound, this county, settling on 160 acres of wild land in Section 27. This was a wild tract without any buildings on it, but Mr. Nelson put up a log house and one or two log barns and began the creation of a farm. He made gradual but steady progress, and when in 1885 the log house burned down, he replaced it by a better one of frame construction, and about the same time he erected other good buildings so as to form a complete set. Here he continued farming for many years or until his own death on Oct. 14, 1912. His first wife Anna had died when the son Ludvig was nine years old and he subsequently married Emma Arneson. The children of the first marriage, seven in number, were: Henry, now of the village of Wheeler; Nellie, who is Mrs. Martin Sorenson of Elk Mound; Martha, who is Mrs. John Sorenson of the same town; Ludvig, subject of this sketch; Jessel, deceased; Rudolph of the town of Grant, and Eugene, deceased. The children of the second marriage were: Louis, of Elk Mound; Johanna, now Mrs. Albert Sorenson of St. Paul, Minn.; Helma, who is Mrs. Nels Olson and lives in Chicago; Arthur, deceased; and Tilla, now Mrs. Carl Sneen of St. Paul. Ludvig E. Nelson acquired a public school education and remained on the home farm until he was 18 years old. He then began farming on his own account on a rented farm in the town of Elk Mound, which he operated for six years. He then bought his present farm of 80 acres in Section 12, which was an improved farm with a good residence and barn and a fine set of out-buildings. Several of the latter, however, he has remodeled, and he has also re-fenced the place and built a tile silo 12 x 40 feet. He follows general farming, giving close attention to dairying and is a stockholder in the cooperative creamery of Elk Mound. Mr. Nelson was married Dec. 23, 1908, to Anna Benson, who was born in the town of Wheaton, Chippewa County, Wis., daughter of Peter and Christina (Anderson) Benson, her parents being natives of Denmark who came to America as young people and engaged in farming in Chippewa County, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Benson are no longer living, the former having died Nov. 15, 1903, and the latter April 15, 1913. Their children were: Christ of Cadott, Wis.; Johanas of Eau Claire; Margaret, deceased in infancy; Margaret (second), now of Eau Claire; Anna, now Mrs. Ludvig E. Nelson; William, of Albertville, Wis., and Matilda, who is Mrs. Martin Hanson of Elk Mound. Mr. and Mrs. Ludvig E. Nelson are the parents of five children, who were born as follows: Alfred P., Nov. 21, 1909; Gilman T., Dec. 7, 1911; Mildred C., Dec. 16, 1913; Emil M., Sept. 4, 1916; and Ernest H., Nov. 27, 1918. The religious faith of the family is that of the Lutheran Church and for one year Mr. Nelson has been trustee of the Baerum congregation. -Transcribed from the "History of Dunn County Wisconsin, 1925," page 396 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm