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Charles Alexander Nelson was born on April 14, 1839 in Calais, Maine, United States. He was the son of Israel Potter and Jane (Capen) Nelson, both members of old New England families.
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Charles Alexander Nelson
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Education
Charles obtained his early education at private schools in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick, and in Eastport, Maine. In the fall of 1854 he entered the Male Academy at Gorham, Maine, but a year later, December 1855, his family having moved to Cambridge, Massachussets, he joined the college class of the Cambridge High School. Entering Harvard College in 1857, he graduated in 1860. Nelson resumed his studies at Harvard College, receiving the degree of master of arts in 1863.
Career
For one year Nelson was tutor in Latin and Greek in the Albany Male Academy, then spent a year in the Lawrence Scientific School, and for more than a year was in business in Boston. In the fall of 1863 he became sub-master and professor of mathematics in the Collegiate School of Boston.
From April 1864 to March 1865, he served as civil engineer and draftsman in the quartermaster's department of the United States Army at New Bern, North Carolina. After the war he remained in New Bern until 1873, serving as superintendent of schools and justice of the peace, and holding various other civil positions. In the spring of 1865 he was acting superintendent of white refugees, and in 1867 had charge of registration work in Craven County, under the reconstruction acts. From 1865 to 1871 he was also interested in the furniture business in New Bern, and from 1866 to 1873 was cashier of the Freedman's Savings & Trust Company.
He returned to Boston in 1874 and was engaged in the book business and literary work until 1879, when he became professor of Greek and librarian at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, but returned to Boston one year later. For two years he was manager of the Old South Bookstore and editor of the firm's publications. For the remainder of his life Nelson was engaged in library and bibliographical work at various institutions, holding numerous offices in professional organizations, contributing constantly to professional library journals, and publishing many bibliographical works of significance.
He worked as assistant in the college library under the tutelage of John Langdon Sibley and Ezra Abbot, whose work aroused his interest in cataloguing. In 1881 Nelson went to the Astor Library, New York, as catalogue librarian, to prepare a continuation of the catalogue made by Joseph G. Cogswell. This supplement was published in four volumes (1886 - 88), and gained for Nelson the diploma of honorable mention at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and at the exposition held in Charleston, South Carolina, in the same year.
Having established a reputation as an expert cataloguer through his work on the catalogue of the Astor Library, he was called to the Newberry Library, Chicago, in 1891, to prepare a dictionary catalogue, but in 1893, before the work was completed, he accepted an appointment as deputy librarian of Columbia University, where he remained until he was retired on a pension from the Carnegie Foundation in 1909. In November 1913 he joined the staff of the Merchants' Association of New York, where he organized and maintained an index-digest of the activities of the Association until his final retirement in July 1926.
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Columbiana: A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Books Relating to the History of King's College, Columbia College, Columbia University (Classic Reprint)
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Catalogue Raisonnée: Works on Bookbinding, Practical and Historical. Examples of Bookbindings of the Xvith to Xixth Centuries from the Collection of ... at Columbia University Library MDCCCCIII
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Genealogy of the Morris Family: Descendants of Thomas Morris of Connecticut
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Libraries of Greater New York: Manual and Historical Sketch of the New York Library Club
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Columbiana: A Bibliography of Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Books Relating to the History of King's College, Columbia College, Columbia University (Classic Reprint)
Connections
In 1872, at New Bern, North Carolina, Nelson married Emma Norris of Slaterville Springs, New York, who died on April 6, 1926. Two daughters survived him.
