Records of Governor Knute Nelson, 1892-1895.

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Records of Governor Knute Nelson, 1892-1895.

Includes materials relating to an assassination plot, applications for and appointments to office, the Board of State Capitol Commissioners, and the Coal Combine Investigating Committee.

1.7 cu. ft. (2 partial boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7313512

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Minnesota. Governor (1893-1895 : Nelson)

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Nelson, Knute, 1843-1923

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Knute Nelson was born in Vosse Elven, Norway, on February 2, 1843. In 1849 he and his widowed mother emigrated to the United States, settling first in Chicago (1849-1850), then in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment (1861-1864) during the Civil War. Following the war he was graduated from the Albion Academy and studied law in a Madison, Wisconsin, law office, being admitted to the bar in 1867 and then serving as a representative in the ...

Minnesota. Board of State Capitol Commissioners

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Minnesota. Coal-combine Investigating Committee.

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