Ulysses Grant Nelson (1871 - 1932)

Born 22 Aug 1871 in Atwood, Pennsylvania

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Ulysses Grant Nelson was born Aug. 22, 1871 near Atwood, Pennsylvania, the son of Agnes and Samuel. He had 4 children with Carrie Mae McNutt. He died in 1932 at the age of 63.

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ULYSSES GRANT NELSON, who owns and operates the Maple Valley farm in Brushvalley township, is rated as one of the most enterprising agriculturists of his section of Indiana county. He is a native of Armstrong county, Pa., born Aug. 22, 1871, near Atwood, son of Samuel Nelson and grandson of Andrew Nelson.

On May 3, 1893, Mr. Nelson was married to Carrie May McNutt of Homer City, this county, daughter of William and Lucinda J. (McKissen) McNutt, and they had four children : Ethel Claire, born April 19, 1894, formerly a student in the summer normal school at Mechanicsburg, now a school teacher in Center township ; Viola Pearl, born June 2G, 1896; Ann Blair, born July 20, 1897; and Mary Marjorie, born March 22, 1899.

Ulysses Grant Nelson obtained his education in the public schools of the various localities where the family lived during his boyhood, principally in White township, Indiana county. He worked on the farm with his father until he was twenty-two years old, at which time he married. After spending another year on his father's farm he went to Homer City, remaining there for a year, and then settled on the Brandon farm in Center township, upon which he lived for two years. He then located on Mrs. Jacoby's farm in White Township, a tract of 110 acres which he farmed for a year, the next three years living on his father's place in White township. In 1901 he moved to the McDonald farm in Brushvalley township, where he spent one year, in 1902 buying the Maple Valley farm in the same township, where he has since made his home. This property consists of eighty-six acres, formerly owned by George Risinger. Mr. Nelson has improved it greatly since it came into his possession. He follows general farming and stock raising, and by hard work has earned success and the respect of all his fellow men. He has served as treas- urer of Brushvalley township, and is a citizen who enjoys the confidence of all who know him. The family are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Nelson is a Republican in politics and a stanch supporter of the principles of his party.

NOTES: This seems completely out of context, but I'm including it as it was in the article:

On March 1, 1894, Mr. Nelson married (second) Nannie Sweeny, at Morrellville, Pa., and three children were born to this union: Bessie, (born Aug. 8, 1895), Blanch Cula. and Bliss. https://archive.org/details/indianacountypen02stew

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