Scope and Contents From the Collection: Lowry Nelson's collection of personal writings, correspondence, books, and manuscripts was presented to Marriott Library, Special Collections beginning in 1974 and continuing through 1976. Personal items filed with the collection include two bound autobiographies, comprising memoirs of his boyhood and his personal life; diaries and daybooks concerning his years of foreign travel and research; and personal photographs, family histories, and family correspondence. The correspondence...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Lowry Nelson's collection of personal writings, correspondence, books, and manuscripts was presented to Marriott Library, Special Collections beginning in 1974 and continuing through 1976. Personal items filed with the collection include two bound autobiographies, comprising memoirs of his boyhood and his personal life; diaries and daybooks concerning his years of foreign travel and research; and personal photographs, family histories, and family correspondence. The correspondence...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Lowry Nelson's collection of personal writings, correspondence, books, and manuscripts was presented to Marriott Library, Special Collections beginning in 1974 and continuing through 1976. Personal items filed with the collection include two bound autobiographies, comprising memoirs of his boyhood and his personal life; diaries and daybooks concerning his years of foreign travel and research; and personal photographs, family histories, and family correspondence. The correspondence...

Scope and Contents Typed transcripts of taped interviews prepared in 1965 by a University of Minnesota graduate student in sociology assigned to do a biography of Lowry Nelson.

Scope and Contents Includes religious mussings, poetry, newspaper articles, and letters to the editor on various current problems (such as pollution and population), somewhat in journal form.

Scope and Contents Lowry Nelson's great-grandfather Daniel Allen was born in 1804 in Whitestown, New York. He married Mary Anne Morris in 1831; she died circa 1846. Daniel Allen then married Louisa Jane Berry in 1848. He died 15 January 1892.

Scope and Contents Family reunion schedules and information, family genealogy, and brief histories of Andrew Nelson, Sr., and his four wives: Mette, Christina, Camilla, and Sophia.

Scope and Contents "A Sketch of the Life of Hyrum Alonzo Nelson," by his son, Lowry Nelson; chronology of important events in the life of Hyrum Alonzo Nelson; obituary clippings with letter from Hyrum's second wife, Louisa, in 1949; typescript of funeral services 24 August 1949.

Scope and Contents Family group sheets for Lowry Nelson.