The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-05-11
GRAND OLD MAN OF MINNESOTA
DIES SUDDENLY ON TRAIN
Passed Away Saturday Night Train Between Baltimore
and Harrisburg, Pa.-Had Passed 80 Years and Was on
His Way Home.
HELD AT ALEXANDRIA WEDNEs


mourning for Knute Nelson, states
man, Civil War veteran, governor and
United States senator for % years,
who died Saturday night in his berth
in a train near Baltimore and whose |
body reached st. Paul at Z a. m. Tues |
day to lie in state during the day in /
rotunda Of the capitol.
Senator Nelson died following a |
sudden attack of angina pecOris, as his /
train was passing through Timonium,
Nd. He was enroUte from Washing
ton to spend the summer on his farm
near Alexandria In the car with him
were his neice, Mrs. Edith TruscOtt
of Jennings lodge, Ore, George w.
/ Wells, Jr., Minnesota insurance com
missioner Walker w. Belford, deputy
insurance commissioner, and Simon
/ Michelet, secretary to the senator.
WAS BORN IN 1843
The veteran legislator was born IN
Norway in 1S43. He celebrated his
eightieth birthday Feb. 2, 1923, at
which time he received messages OF
congratulation from the King of Nor
wav. the president of the Norway con-
gress and President Harding, as well
as from other prominent statesmen OF
America and the old world.
Governor Preus of Minnesota, who
began his political career as clerk to
Senator Nelson in Washington, was
in New York Saturday night and as
sumed charge Of funeral arrangements
when informed of the aged legislators
death bv telephone. The governor I'M
mediatelv left New York for Harris
burg. Pa. where the Senator's body
was taken from the train and prepar-
ed for shipment to st. Paul.
The funeral car with Governor
Preus heading the escort, left Chicago
Monday night on the Pioneer Limited
over the Milwaukee railroad.
Messages were received from Pres
ident Harding, Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, cabinet members and
MANY of the senator's colleagues IN
> congress-. as well as from political ane
business leaders in all parts of the
country. Other tributes to Senator
Nelson as a statesman, patriot, sold
= Ter and public character were paid to-
: dav bv Senator Henrik Shipstead
S Mavor Leach of Minneapolis, Mayor
: Nelson of St. Paul, Lieutenant Gov
= ernor Louis L. Collins and Others
DIOIillICIlb
L business life of Minnesota
n HONORARY PALLBEAIGERS
r Included in the list of more than q
+ honorary pallbearers, are senator
e Shipstead, Eli Torrance and Sainue
It R. VanSant, past commanders Oh tht
a Grand Army of the Republic, 1ofmel
e Governors John Lind, j. A. =. Burn
o ouist and A. o. Eberhart, the mayors
d of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth
e members of the Minnesota congress
s. sional delegation at Washington,
: group of veteran state Legislators, o.
: State service mems organizations
+ iudoes of district and federal courts
It and several friends from Senator Mel
l. sons home town.
} Knute Nelson was born at Eoss
r rear Bergen, Norway, the home OF III
-e ancestors for generations. The fathe
Al died when Knute was three years OLE
e and the mother, with Knute, came t.
America three years later. They ar
rived in Chicago, in July, 1849, and 10
: Gated in Walworth county, Wis, Il
I, 1880. The next year Mrs. Nelson an
: the bow moved to a farm in Dan
: county. Wis. where KnUte grew t
manhood. After a long struggle t
obtain a common school education
~ " Knute Nelson entered Albion colleg
n in 1858.
III CIVIL WAR SERVICE
e During his third year in college, tn
le Civil War broke out and he enliste
'e in MAY 1861, in the Fourth Wisconsi
Il infantry. He served with his req
> ment until the autumn of 1864. Nel
= son was wounded at t he seige of POI
Is Huron on June A, 1868, was capture
IL bv the confederates and remained car
s7 tive in a rebel prison for a month, ur
a til the prison was surrendered to UI
! ion forces. At the close of the wa
~ Nelson returned to Albion, complete
II his course and entered law office
- Madison.
~ Knute Nelson was admitted to tn
o' bar in 1867, served two terms in tt
e Wisconsin legislature and moved
u Alexandria, Mimi, where he practice
y law and operated farm. After thre
f ~ terms as county attorney, he wa
u elected to the Minnesota house of reI
{ resentatives and served for fou
years. In 1882 he was elected to tn
9 national house of representatives an
served two terms, but declined thin
nomination.
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