Brief Life History of Clarence
When Clarence Nelson was born on 16 January 1901, in Firth, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, Janne Nilsson, was 61 and his mother, Emma Lovisa Wikbom, was 40. He married Eunice Emma Albertina Hjelm on 22 September 1928, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 9 August 1967, in Firth, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Firth, Bingham, Idaho, United States.
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- Clarence Nelson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Clarence Nelson - Published information: birth-name: Clarence Nelson
- Clarence Nelson, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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