History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . s a man of rare artistic talent, his decorative work giving him morethan local fame. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Decorah,Iowa. At the age of fifteen he began work in a drug store in Decorah,where he continued for about one year. In 1881 he went to Minneapolisand was employed in drug stores in that city for fourteen years. Comingto Moorhead in 1895. he engage
History of Clay and Norman counties, Minnesota : their people, industries, and institutions : with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . s a man of rare artistic talent, his decorative work giving him morethan local fame. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Decorah,Iowa. At the age of fifteen he began work in a drug store in Decorah,where he continued for about one year. In 1881 he went to Minneapolisand was employed in drug stores in that city for fourteen years. Comingto Moorhead in 1895. he engaged in the drug i)usiness on his own accountin that city and has continued in this business there ever since. In 1905 W. M. Nesheim and Eleanor Albertson. daughter of OrrisAlbertson, of Battle Lake. Minnesota, were united in marriage, and to thisunion three children have been born: Eleanor, Roseltha and William (de-ceased). Mr. Nesheims fraternal affiliation is with the local lodge of theAncient Order of United Workmen at Moorhead. Mrs. Nesheims Albertson, for many years one of the foremost residents of BattleLake, which town he helped to lay out. buying the first town lot sold W. M. XESHEIM. THE NEW YUhKPIIBI,IC LIBRARY ^o,wR, LENexTILDEN FOUNDATfONh CLAY AXD NORMAN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA. 57 was born in Jefferson connly, New York, a son of Josiali and Rhoda I Kig-gins) Albertson. natives of the state of New Jersey. When nineteen yearsof age, in 1869, Orris Albertson came to Minnesota to join his sister, Sherman, in Otter Tail county, and for some time thereafter wasemployed as a clerk in the city of Otter Tail. In the fall of 1873 he marriedMrs. Roseltha (Gould), Corliss, a widow and the owner of a homestead farmin Everts township. Otter Tail county, and took a homestead in his ownname adjoining that of his wife. In 1876 he established a store on that farmand later moved the same to the new townsite of Battle Lake and for manyvears thereafter was
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