Nels D. and Hannah Nelson

Dominkus and Kirsti's second child, Nels D. Nelson, born in Lærdal in 1856, moved to the Dakota Territory in 1879 and filed for a farm in Traill County. In 1882 he married Hannah Kraabel, who had also moved from Wisconsin to North Dakota. Her brother A. T. Kraabel and Nels began a partnership in the dry goods business and Nels traded his homestead for a store. Nels and Hannah had seven children (one died in infancy).

Materials included are

• • Pictures from the Nelson and Kraabel families

  • "A History of Nels D. Nelson," by John S. Nelson

  • A history of N.D. Nelson by DTN

  • 75th birthday of N.D. Nelson article in the Traill County Tribune, 1931

• • Picture of N.D. and Hannah Nelson with their grandchildren

  • N.D. Nelson obituary, 1936

  • N.D. Nelson obituary from the Traill County Tribune

  • "History of Mrs. N.D. Nelson," by Mrs. I. Hegge

  • Mrs. Hannah Nelson obituary, 1929

  • Wedding of Terese Nelson to Rev. G. Estrem, 1913

  • "My Life," by A.T. Kraabel, brother of Hannah Kraabel Nelson