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JAMES W. NELSON.
—Conspicuous among the younger generation of Morrow county's
substantial business men is James W. Nelson, who is
filling the responsible position of cashier of the Marengo
Banking Company. A native of Ohio, he was born September 14,
1880, in Washington township, Morrow county, on the farm where
his parents, William and Nancy (Post) Nelson, still
reside.
Spending his early years on the home farm, James W.
Nelson attended first the district schools and later
continued his studies at the Iberia High School. He subsequently
worked with his father on the homestead, becoming familiar with
the various branches of agriculture, but did not care enough for
the rural occupation to make it his life work. Leaving the farm,
therefore, he found employment as clerk in a store, first at St.
James and later at Climax. In 1904 Mr. Nelson
successfully passed the civil service examination, and for two
years and a half was mail carrier on one of the rural routes
going out of St. James. Resigning that position, he entered a
business college in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was graduated,
receiving his diploma in May, 1907. Two months later, on July 9,
1907, Mr. Nelson came to Marengo, and during the
following three months was bookkeeper for the Marengo Banking
Company, with which he has since been associated. Developing
marked ability in that position, he was made assistant cashier
of the company in October of that year, and on April 19, 1910,
was made cashier of the institution, a position for which he is
well qualified and which he is filling to the satisfaction of
all concerned.
Mr. Nelson married, March 27, 1907, Tamer
Crider, who was born in 1887, a daughter of Adam
Crider, and was educated in the Iberia High School. Mr.
and Mrs. Nelson have two children, namely:
Dorothea L. and Mary E.
Politically Mr. Nelson affiliates with
the Republican party, and fraternally he is a member and past
chancellor of Marengo Lodge, No. 216, K. of P. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Nelson are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Nelson is a capable business man
and owns property of value on Walnut street, Marengo.
Source: History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol.
II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp.
582-583
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