Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....NELSON, PHILIP E. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@gmail.com December 31, 2007, 2:02 pm Author: Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library MEMBERS OF THE SENATE ELEVENTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, and Washburn Counties. PHILIP E. NELSON, (Rep.) was born on a farm at Curtiss, Wisconsin, September 1, 1891. He is a graduate of the Colby High School and the Williams Business College of Oshkosh. For a time he was employed as cost accountant for the Oakland Motor Car company at Pontiac, Michigan; operated cheese factories in Clark and Rusk Counties, and later kept a general store at Conrath, Rusk County. He served on the county board of supervisors of Douglas County from 1921 to 1923 and 1925 to 1931. He is a director of the Tri-State Pair Board. He served one year and ten months in the World War, most of this time with the A. E. F. in France. At the present time he owns and operates a farm in the town of Cloverland, Maple P. O., Douglas County. He was a member of the Assembly in 1927, and 1929, and was elected to the State Senate in 1930. Home Address: Maple. Additional Comments: Compiled by The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. The Wisconsin Blue Book. Madison, Wisconsin: Democrat Printing Company, 1933. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1933/bios/nelson1039gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb