NELSON, L. P. - 1914

NELSON, OLSON

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

L. P. NELSON.

L. P. Nelson, living in Aurelia, has been actively engaged in the restaurant business there for eight years. He was born in Denmark in 1862, a son of Christ and Elsie Nelson, both of whom died in that country. In their family were seven children: L. P., of this review; Nels, of Buena Vista county; Soren and Peter, both of whom reside in Cherokee county; Berthel, of Clark county, South Dakota; and two daughters still residing in Denmark.

L. P. Nelson emigrated to America in the spring of 1883 and settled in Alta, Iowa, working at various occupations in that vicinity until 1905. In that year he came to Cherokee county and settled in Aurelia, opening a restaurant which he has conducted successfully, building up during that time a large and representative patronage and becoming known as a farsighted and progressive business man. He has other important business connections, being a stockholder in the Farmers National Bank of Aurelia, the Farmers Elevator Company, the Peoples Cooperative Telephone Company and in C. Shenkberg & Company of Sioux City. He also owns a fine business house in Aurelia.

On the 29th of November, 1897, Mr. Nelson married Miss Mary Olson, who was born in Iowa in 1876, a daughter of Carl and Johannah Olson, residents of Alta. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have become the parents of two children: Elsie J., who was born January 15, 1899, and who is now a student in the high school; and Wesley K., born in November, 1903.

Mr. Nelson has extensive and important fraternal affiliations, being a member of the Masonic lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine. He has passed through all the chairs of the Knights of Pythias and is a charter member of the Maccabees and the Danish Brotherhood, of which latter organization he was the first president. He is a progressive republican in his political views and he takes an intelligent interest in public affairs although he never seeks office for himself. He is a man whose life has always been in keeping with high standards and he justly deserves the full measure of confidence and respect now entertained for him by all who know him.