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William Nelson was born on February 10, 1847 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of William and Susan (Cherry) Nelson.
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William Nelson was born on February 10, 1847 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. He was the son of William and Susan (Cherry) Nelson.
Nelson attended the Newark public schools, graduating from the high school in 1862.
When only sixteen, Nelson became reporter for the Newark Daily Advertiser, and the following two years he taught English in German schools in Newark and South Orange, and general subjects in a district school at Connecticut Farms (now Union), New Jersey. Deciding to devote more time to journalism he took up his residence in Paterson in June 1865, and for ten years was a reporter for the Paterson Daily Press. In April 1868 he was elected a member of the Paterson board of education. In May 1871 he was appointed clerk of the Passaic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, serving as such until May 1894, a period of twenty-three years. In the meantime, for ten years (1877 - 87), he was clerk of the Paterson district court.
In his late twenties he entered the office of John Hopper in Paterson and at the June Term, 1878, was admitted as attorney at the New Jersey bar.
In February 1900 he became counselor-at-law and also a master and special examiner in Chancery and from 1902 until his death he served as United States commissioner.
In 1872 Nelson read a paper upon the discovery and early history of New Jersey before the Passaic County Historical Society.
While so serving he edited the Proceedings of the Society, some dozen volumes, and was brought into wide correspondence with other historians and societies. In 1897, by appointment of the legislature, he was made chairman of the Public Records Commission of New Jersey.
He held membership in many of the leading scientific, historical, and genealogical societies throughout the country. A bibliography of his books and pamphlets, including a few magazine articles reproduced in pamphlet form, comprises about one hundred and thirty titles.
He died at Matamoras, Pennsylvania, where he had gone to regain his health in the early summer, but was buried in Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson.
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Nelson was active in religious groups, serving as elder and clerk of the session in the First Presbyterian Church of Paterson.
While in politics a Republican, he did not care to hold party offices, although he was frequently a delegate to local and national conventions.
Nelson was twice married, in 1872 to Martha Buckley, daughter of Mayor Benjamin Buckley of Paterson, who died in 1885, and, on July 25, 1889, to Salome Williams Doremus, daughter of Henry C. and Ann Eliza (Banta) Doremus, who survived him. He left no children.