N.I. Nelson

NELSON, SORBON, SCAR

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall (email)
Date: 5/30/2006 at 06:58:57

Nelson, N.I., merchant -- Lake Mills -- born 1 June, 1857, in Calmar, Winneshiek county, Iowa. His father came from Norway to this country in 1849, his mother arriving in 1855.

Young Nelson received a common and commercial school education; settled with his parents in St. Ansgar, Iowa, when ten years of age; learned the carpenter's trade; commenced to clerk in a hardware store in Osage at the age of twenty-five; moved to Lake Mills in 1886, and went into partnership with Ole Scar. They are doing the largest general merchandise business in the city, besides being engaged in a canning factory and cold storage, and are by far the most important business men in town.

Nelson is a member of the United Norwegian Church; has been elected mayor of the town twice; and was married in 1883 to Annie Christine Sorbon. They have two children.

~source: History of the Scandinavians in the U.S.; Compiled & Edited by O.N. Nelson; Vol II; 1897; Biographies of Scandinavians in Iowa; pg 258
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~photo added 11/18/09, contributed by Ken Moen
~source of photo: Lake Mills 40th anniversary High School 1896-1936; Lake Mills Alumni, pg 124

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