History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . chil-dren: Mary Helen L., Agnes E., GeorgeK., and Harry I. Belden. Mr. Beldefl is ac-tive in all measures designed to promote theinterests of the city and state, and is a mem-ber of the Minnekada Club, a popular socialorganization, member of the Board of Trade,and of the Commercial Club, two organiza-tions especially designed to look after thebusiness interests of the city. NELSON, Rensselaer K.—Few men havebeen privilege
History of the great Northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life . chil-dren: Mary Helen L., Agnes E., GeorgeK., and Harry I. Belden. Mr. Beldefl is ac-tive in all measures designed to promote theinterests of the city and state, and is a mem-ber of the Minnekada Club, a popular socialorganization, member of the Board of Trade,and of the Commercial Club, two organiza-tions especially designed to look after thebusiness interests of the city. NELSON, Rensselaer K.—Few men havebeen privileged to point to a record of nearlyforty years service on the federal districtbench. Such an honor is rare in the historyof juiisprudence. From its admission tostatehood in 1858, up to 1896, Minnesota hadas its representative on the United Statesdistrict bench Hon. Rensselaer R. Nelson,of St. Paul. Judge Nelson was born at Coop-erstown, N. V., in May, 1826, and combinesa strain of Irish, Scotch, English and Dutchblood in his veins. He is a son of SamuelNelson, for many years one of the judgesof the New York supreme court, afterward IIISTOKY OF THE GUKAT UENSSELAKIt K. NELSON. an associate justice of the United Statessupreme court, aud Catherine Russell. Hispaternal great-graudfather, John Nelson,came to this couutrv from Ballibay, Ireland,in 1764, when his grandfather, John RogersNelson, was a child, settling in Washingtoncounty, N. Y., and served as sergeant in thewar of the Revolution. Here his father,Samuel Nelson, was born in 1792. On thematernal side he is a grandson of John Rus-sell and Elizabeth Williams, and great-grandson of Ebeuezer Russell, a Revolu-tionary soldier. On the same side he isdescended from John Nelson, who was bornin England in 15J5, settled at Cambridge,Mass., in 1035, aud was an intimate friendof Governor Bellingham. Judge Nelson pre-pared for college in llie military school of hisnative town, and at Hartwick Seminary. Heentered Yale College
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