The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 756 

FRED NELSON.

Fred Nelson has been the owner of his present farm property for more than a
decade and has resided thereon for a more extended period. He was born in Kent,
Washington, October 31, 1873, a son of Halvor and Julianna Nelson, who are
natives of Norway and became pioneer settlers of Nebraska. After being
identified with that state through the epoch of its frontier development they
continued their westward journey and became residents of Washington, arriving
in the Kittitas valley in 1878. The father purchased eighty acres of land four
miles west of Ellensburg and later bought eighty acres more. He has since been
identified with farming interests in this locality but has sold all of the land
to his boys. However, he is the owner of a ranch in a nearby canyon.

Fred Nelson acquired a public school education and was reared to the occupation
of farming, which he followed in connection with his father until 1906. He then
rented a part of his father's place and lived thereon until 1908, when he
purchased forty acres of the old homestead. He has converted this into a
valuable and well improved farm. He has built thereon a new house, good barns
and outbuildings and in fact has all of the equipments of the model farm of the
twentieth century. He is engaged in raising hay and grain and his business
affairs arc wisely and carefully directed, bringing to him therefore a
substantial measure of prosperity.

On the 23d of December, 1908, Mr. Nelson was united in marriage to Miss
Gertrude Evans, a native of Tacoma, Washington, and a daughter of Morris Evans,
who is now a retired rancher living in Prosser, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
have an adopted daughter, Marguerite, who is a year and a half old. Mr. Nelson
never seeks to figure in any public light, content to concentrate his efforts
and attention upon his business affairs, and his close application and energy
are the basic principles of his growing success.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.