(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Sixteen acres of beautiful orchard constitute a feature of the sixty acre ranch property owned and occupied by Warren Thomas Nelson, whose land is on the south slope of the Payette valley eleven miles west of Emmett. Mr. Nelson is a native son of Idaho, his birth having occurred in Bloomington, Bear Lake county, March 16, 1875, his parents being Christian and Catharine (Johnson) Nelson, the former a native of Denmark, still living at Bloomington, Idaho, at the advanced age of ninety-four years and still hale and vigorous. The mother, however, passed away in 1918, when almost ninety years of age. The parents were married in Denmark and came to the United States as converts to the Mormon faith. They crossed the plains on foot, bringing their belongings on a handcart.
Warren T. Nelson has spent his entire life in Idaho and was reared to agricultural pursuits, to which he has since given his attention, while in later years he has specialized to a considerable extent in orcharding. He attended the public schools of the state and also spent a year as a student in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah.
In early manhood, at Bloomington, Idaho, on the 13th of August, 1903, Mr. Nelson was married to Josephine Jensen, who was also of Danish parentage and was born at Rankin, Illinois, June 6, 1882, being a daughter of Thomas and Christine (Larsen) Jensen, both of whom were natives of Denmark, where they were reared and married. Her father died eleven years ago at Logansport, Indiana, when sixty-four years of age, and the mother is yet residing there at the age of sixty-four years. Mrs. Nelson was reared and educated at Logansport, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson has been born a son Lewis Bailey, whose birth occurred October 18, 1914.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Nelson removed from Bloomington, Idaho, to the Bramwell neighborhood in the Payette valley in 1904 and for six years lived on what is now the Mert Jackson orchard ranch, of which they were then owners and on which they set out the orchard. In 1909 they sold the property and purchased their present place of sixty acres four miles farther west on the south slope from their former home. The ranch when it came into their possession was a tract of wild sagebrush land but within ten years Mr. Nelson has accomplished a work of marvelous development, bringing about a notable transformation in the appearance of the farm. He has erected a full set of buildings and today has sixteen acres of his sixty acre tract planted to apples, prunes and peaches, which are now ten years old. He also has apricots, sweet cherries and almonds and the almond trees, now fifty in number, are in full bearing. He sold fruit from his orchard in 1919 that netted him over six thousand dollars. Five acres of prunes alone brought a hundred and two dollars and a half to the ton, or over three thousand dollars. Aside from his orchard the ranch is in alfalfa and he likewise engages successfully in the raising of live stock, having now more than one hundred head of sheep. Mr. Nelson paid twenty-four hundred dollars for his sixty acre tract of sagebrush and today he would not take fifteen thousand dollars for the property.
In politics Mr. Nelson is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire public office. He worked most diligently and persistently in the development of his land and has wrought a marvelous change in its appearance. His orchards are laid out methodically and systematically and all of his work is conducted along progressive lines. He is diligent and enterprising and there are few idle hours in his career. He has studied modern scientific methods of tilling the soil and raising fruit and other crops, and his efforts are most intelligently directed, therefore bringing substantial results.
Sixteen acres of beautiful orchard constitute a feature of the sixty acre ranch property owned and occupied by Warren Thomas Nelson, whose land is on the south slope of the Payette valley eleven miles west of Emmett. Mr. Nelson is a native son of Idaho, his birth having occurred in Bloomington, Bear Lake county, March 16, 1875, his parents being Christian and Catharine (Johnson) Nelson, the former a native of Denmark, still living at Bloomington, Idaho, at the advanced age of ninety-four years and still hale and vigorous. The mother, however, passed away in 1918, when almost ninety years of age. The parents were married in Denmark and came to the United States as converts to the Mormon faith. They crossed the plains on foot, bringing their belongings on a handcart.
Warren T. Nelson has spent his entire life in Idaho and was reared to agricultural pursuits, to which he has since given his attention, while in later years he has specialized to a considerable extent in orcharding. He attended the public schools of the state and also spent a year as a student in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah.
In early manhood, at Bloomington, Idaho, on the 13th of August, 1903, Mr. Nelson was married to Josephine Jensen, who was also of Danish parentage and was born at Rankin, Illinois, June 6, 1882, being a daughter of Thomas and Christine (Larsen) Jensen, both of whom were natives of Denmark, where they were reared and married. Her father died eleven years ago at Logansport, Indiana, when sixty-four years of age, and the mother is yet residing there at the age of sixty-four years. Mrs. Nelson was reared and educated at Logansport, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson has been born a son Lewis Bailey, whose birth occurred October 18, 1914.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Nelson removed from Bloomington, Idaho, to the Bramwell neighborhood in the Payette valley in 1904 and for six years lived on what is now the Mert Jackson orchard ranch, of which they were then owners and on which they set out the orchard. In 1909 they sold the property and purchased their present place of sixty acres four miles farther west on the south slope from their former home. The ranch when it came into their possession was a tract of wild sagebrush land but within ten years Mr. Nelson has accomplished a work of marvelous development, bringing about a notable transformation in the appearance of the farm. He has erected a full set of buildings and today has sixteen acres of his sixty acre tract planted to apples, prunes and peaches, which are now ten years old. He also has apricots, sweet cherries and almonds and the almond trees, now fifty in number, are in full bearing. He sold fruit from his orchard in 1919 that netted him over six thousand dollars. Five acres of prunes alone brought a hundred and two dollars and a half to the ton, or over three thousand dollars. Aside from his orchard the ranch is in alfalfa and he likewise engages successfully in the raising of live stock, having now more than one hundred head of sheep. Mr. Nelson paid twenty-four hundred dollars for his sixty acre tract of sagebrush and today he would not take fifteen thousand dollars for the property.
In politics Mr. Nelson is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire public office. He worked most diligently and persistently in the development of his land and has wrought a marvelous change in its appearance. His orchards are laid out methodically and systematically and all of his work is conducted along progressive lines. He is diligent and enterprising and there are few idle hours in his career. He has studied modern scientific methods of tilling the soil and raising fruit and other crops, and his efforts are most intelligently directed, therefore bringing substantial results.
(Published in History of Idaho: The Gem of the Mountains Vol. 3 by James H. Hawley 1920)
Sixteen acres of beautiful orchard constitute a feature of the sixty acre ranch property owned and occupied by Warren Thomas Nelson, whose land is on the south slope of the Payette valley eleven miles west of Emmett. Mr. Nelson is a native son of Idaho, his birth having occurred in Bloomington, Bear Lake county, March 16, 1875, his parents being Christian and Catharine (Johnson) Nelson, the former a native of Denmark, still living at Bloomington, Idaho, at the advanced age of ninety-four years and still hale and vigorous. The mother, however, passed away in 1918, when almost ninety years of age. The parents were married in Denmark and came to the United States as converts to the Mormon faith. They crossed the plains on foot, bringing their belongings on a handcart.
Warren T. Nelson has spent his entire life in Idaho and was reared to agricultural pursuits, to which he has since given his attention, while in later years he has specialized to a considerable extent in orcharding. He attended the public schools of the state and also spent a year as a student in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah.
In early manhood, at Bloomington, Idaho, on the 13th of August, 1903, Mr. Nelson was married to Josephine Jensen, who was also of Danish parentage and was born at Rankin, Illinois, June 6, 1882, being a daughter of Thomas and Christine (Larsen) Jensen, both of whom were natives of Denmark, where they were reared and married. Her father died eleven years ago at Logansport, Indiana, when sixty-four years of age, and the mother is yet residing there at the age of sixty-four years. Mrs. Nelson was reared and educated at Logansport, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson has been born a son Lewis Bailey, whose birth occurred October 18, 1914.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Nelson removed from Bloomington, Idaho, to the Bramwell neighborhood in the Payette valley in 1904 and for six years lived on what is now the Mert Jackson orchard ranch, of which they were then owners and on which they set out the orchard. In 1909 they sold the property and purchased their present place of sixty acres four miles farther west on the south slope from their former home. The ranch when it came into their possession was a tract of wild sagebrush land but within ten years Mr. Nelson has accomplished a work of marvelous development, bringing about a notable transformation in the appearance of the farm. He has erected a full set of buildings and today has sixteen acres of his sixty acre tract planted to apples, prunes and peaches, which are now ten years old. He also has apricots, sweet cherries and almonds and the almond trees, now fifty in number, are in full bearing. He sold fruit from his orchard in 1919 that netted him over six thousand dollars. Five acres of prunes alone brought a hundred and two dollars and a half to the ton, or over three thousand dollars. Aside from his orchard the ranch is in alfalfa and he likewise engages successfully in the raising of live stock, having now more than one hundred head of sheep. Mr. Nelson paid twenty-four hundred dollars for his sixty acre tract of sagebrush and today he would not take fifteen thousand dollars for the property.
In politics Mr. Nelson is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire public office. He worked most diligently and persistently in the development of his land and has wrought a marvelous change in its appearance. His orchards are laid out methodically and systematically and all of his work is conducted along progressive lines. He is diligent and enterprising and there are few idle hours in his career. He has studied modern scientific methods of tilling the soil and raising fruit and other crops, and his efforts are most intelligently directed, therefore bringing substantial results.
Sixteen acres of beautiful orchard constitute a feature of the sixty acre ranch property owned and occupied by Warren Thomas Nelson, whose land is on the south slope of the Payette valley eleven miles west of Emmett. Mr. Nelson is a native son of Idaho, his birth having occurred in Bloomington, Bear Lake county, March 16, 1875, his parents being Christian and Catharine (Johnson) Nelson, the former a native of Denmark, still living at Bloomington, Idaho, at the advanced age of ninety-four years and still hale and vigorous. The mother, however, passed away in 1918, when almost ninety years of age. The parents were married in Denmark and came to the United States as converts to the Mormon faith. They crossed the plains on foot, bringing their belongings on a handcart.
Warren T. Nelson has spent his entire life in Idaho and was reared to agricultural pursuits, to which he has since given his attention, while in later years he has specialized to a considerable extent in orcharding. He attended the public schools of the state and also spent a year as a student in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah.
In early manhood, at Bloomington, Idaho, on the 13th of August, 1903, Mr. Nelson was married to Josephine Jensen, who was also of Danish parentage and was born at Rankin, Illinois, June 6, 1882, being a daughter of Thomas and Christine (Larsen) Jensen, both of whom were natives of Denmark, where they were reared and married. Her father died eleven years ago at Logansport, Indiana, when sixty-four years of age, and the mother is yet residing there at the age of sixty-four years. Mrs. Nelson was reared and educated at Logansport, Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Nelson has been born a son Lewis Bailey, whose birth occurred October 18, 1914.
After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Nelson removed from Bloomington, Idaho, to the Bramwell neighborhood in the Payette valley in 1904 and for six years lived on what is now the Mert Jackson orchard ranch, of which they were then owners and on which they set out the orchard. In 1909 they sold the property and purchased their present place of sixty acres four miles farther west on the south slope from their former home. The ranch when it came into their possession was a tract of wild sagebrush land but within ten years Mr. Nelson has accomplished a work of marvelous development, bringing about a notable transformation in the appearance of the farm. He has erected a full set of buildings and today has sixteen acres of his sixty acre tract planted to apples, prunes and peaches, which are now ten years old. He also has apricots, sweet cherries and almonds and the almond trees, now fifty in number, are in full bearing. He sold fruit from his orchard in 1919 that netted him over six thousand dollars. Five acres of prunes alone brought a hundred and two dollars and a half to the ton, or over three thousand dollars. Aside from his orchard the ranch is in alfalfa and he likewise engages successfully in the raising of live stock, having now more than one hundred head of sheep. Mr. Nelson paid twenty-four hundred dollars for his sixty acre tract of sagebrush and today he would not take fifteen thousand dollars for the property.
In politics Mr. Nelson is a republican and keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire public office. He worked most diligently and persistently in the development of his land and has wrought a marvelous change in its appearance. His orchards are laid out methodically and systematically and all of his work is conducted along progressive lines. He is diligent and enterprising and there are few idle hours in his career. He has studied modern scientific methods of tilling the soil and raising fruit and other crops, and his efforts are most intelligently directed, therefore bringing substantial results.
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