00381 JULIA B. NELSON: An Inventory of Her Papers Finding aid prepared by Lara Friedman-Sheldov. Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

 Finding aid encoded by Lyda Morehouse, November 1, 1999. Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Nelson, Julia B. Julia B. Nelson papers. 1870-1918, 1997. Biographical data, correspondence, and writings of a noted Minnesota suffragist and temperance leader. 1 folder See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. BIOGRAPHY OF JULIA B. NELSON

Julia Bullard Nelson was born May 13th, 1842 in High Ridge, Connecticut, to Edward and Angeline Bullard. As a small child, Nelson moved to Denmark, Iowa and in 1857 the family moved to Wacouta, Minnesota. She attended Hamline University in Red Wing, Minnesota, and was the first person in Goodhue County to receive a first-grade teaching certificate. Nelson taught in schools around the country, including Minnesota, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Columbus, South Carolina. She became well-known for her work with the temperance and women's suffrage movements, participating in debates and speaking around the country. In 1881 she helped form the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association and in 1886 addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on the issue. She was active as a speaker and an officer in the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Julia married Ole Nelson in September 1866. The couple had a son, Cyrus, in 1868 but the child survived only nine months. His death was followed just five months later by Ole's in January 1869 at age 28. Julia passed away in December 1914 at her home in Red Wing, Minnesota.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

This small collection includes biographical data; correspondence concerning ownership of family land and Nelson's work with the Freedman's Bureau in Columbus, S.C.; and writings, including two poems and a political cartoon.

 RELATED MATERIALS

Records of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association and the papers of John Nelson (Julia's brother) are separately cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

William H. Richards: A Remarkable Life of a Remarkable Man, by Julia B. Nelson, is separately cataloged in the Minnesota Historical Society book collection.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Women--Sufferage. Temperance--Poetry. Persons: Nelson, John, 1843-1912. Nelson Family. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Julia B. Nelson Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

 Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 15,358: 15,490

 Processing Information:

Processed by: Lara D. Friedman~Shedlov, April 1999

Catalog ID number: 09-00320817

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION P566 1 Biographical data, correspondence, and writings, undated and 1870, 1874, 1877, 1918, and 1997.

Biographical data consists of a life chronology compiled by Marian E. Glew in 1997. Correspondence concerns ownership of family land (1870) and Nelson's work with the Freedman's Bureau in Columbus, South Carolina (1877). Writings include two copies of "Song of the New Crusade," written by Nelson in 1874, an undated political cartoon satirizing Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose party, and a poem, "The Dutchman's Equal Rights," revised by William R. Keen and published posthumously in 1918.