Thomas A. Nelson

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Husband Thomas A. Nelson ¹

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         Father: James D. Nelson (1823-1904) 2 3
         Mother: Margaret Gealy (1825-1869) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas A. Nelson

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As a youth, he emi­grated to California and located in the city of Stockton, where he became a prominent broker and banker, and where he became a large real estate owner, being the possessor of eight hun­dred acres of land, on which he raised grapes, his first year's shipment of that fruit totalling seventy-five tons. He was postmaster at Stockton for nine years, and for one term was a member of the California legislature.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 662.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 967.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 661.