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Show Tim tit i San.iav S.;u ! M.iuiAaii zed .; in .Mt. P!i-a .lit in iMi.v 1 l-e li'S! Sti-i i! iv lt:cy int-l and oti.tnucd. and eery ' Sunday since, with few exeiimr le sciiou! li.is bteu l.eld. -StH O N;cI-mi , was a member of Ai.t one M. LunJ's ! class . , I Two years and a half after their arrival in San I'eie.ilie Katlier and elder brother airived. Af'er that;ion : sepata i n they met ill 8 foreign land. with a dear one dead to muru f ir, and a new s -n ti re j lice over; under forbidding c.rcuin-stances. c.rcuin-stances. but the well spr n; o- peace and satisfaction in their hearts. The father welcomed as a gift troin God. the I t tie American into Ins Swedish lamily. Cl the three sons, the elder, (lie as born in Sweden, Stfen O. m Denmaik. and N ills, 111 America. i'lie I'i'lowiiig spiing the father took a herd ol s'i-.-o and k;i one or two of the boys with him.' With their earnings tliey bought a cow, a yoke of oeii. and a wagon. For eight husliels of wheat ihey bought a lot. dag a cellar, and built a better house, the material being 1j.;s- In iSjS, because of those never to be forgotten h.iir.ns of (he Iud an war, the t oinside settlers wereobl.ged to aband mi ! their hltle tow ns, b-ave I heir impr ve meiils and move into the laiger towns. Kairview moved to Mt Pleasa.it, En iiilam G eeu t M r ill', and Spring Cilv to Ephraim. .In the spring ul 1S67 the owners f land in the aband med towns were advised ad-vised 1 1 divide their raihei large tracts, selling parcels to otnets to augment ihe strength of these pl.ic s so that peim.i lient residence could be maintained. The Ne Uon family removed to Fail view!ought 16 acres ol farming land, f a six bushels ol win at per acre, payable alier haivest. They alio b 'iigli one San Pete County - ' I.lve5! of sDiuo of Her Sojh and Daus'tter- j Historical aud HioKrapliical iuL'i;h';its ot hor Sottlejiicntiuitl (Jrowth, and Also of Her People. SAVKNO. NIELSEN. Mr. S.v 1 O. N'iel-iJii wh is the elder of the two biotliers, who firm the limi ot Niels-n Brothnrs, and who is accredit- 1 ed with b -'11(5 t le stnwr in every seiise 'of the wotd.nas ceriainly 1 Aind the K"'d- en ladder ul success. Souu will s.iy: "ile j 1 grew up with the countty!" Vety trur; but how many are thi ie in San Pete County today who were similarly situated situ-ated and d d Ajgrow up w:lii tu jcou i-try. i-try. In viewing l!ie successf.il career of a person we aie altogether to apt to give the cted 1 to luck, fne i.l, fayoriu cir-cumstauces, cir-cumstauces, or special a id exceptional opp .rtuuities, r itlier ih in to economy, faithfulness, industry, ability and unremitting unre-mitting to. I. By speaking and acting as if the former for-mer were the case there is bred in the he.irts of ths yoiinj; a dread cl honest toil; a loith'iig of certain classes of labor which d not call for a large outlay of educational training, or mental ability; a dependance, and looking forward to some lucky tutu of the golden wheel of fortune, inste ad of putting their sliuulde rs to the wheel and m iking it turn when thev will. T.ieir u bre 1 1 spirit of d!s.itisf iction and indecision; a ilnie;aid ul Miiall op-iHirtiiiiiut-s an i no deore to excel in the dunts of the hoar. naif o( a city lot, and built a little house upon it, such as their scuity means would permit, and have lived in F iiiv :ew ever since. In the spring of '63, a call was again nude up n S in Pete to send learns to meet the incoming envgraiuai, and aoiong 1 he young men wli 1 went as teamsters was S veil O. Neilson's older brother Lais. Bp. Seely of Mt. Pleasant bad charge of the c aiipany. When 'hey leached j th- Green Kiver tli- y found it ve v much s.v Hen by rauisan l uietiing su In lei ly.ng the cattle over tins r ver, a boat having m.ieteen y uu nun .11 board, was capsized by a sml-leii ius: .-I the Iriguiened hiutcs, and ol the u ne ti-en, six never siw in-Htiuie aliV' . O these one was the brother I Siu N i'son, and as near as th wrner has be 11 a Mf t.. le irn.one was a son of Ha. Chii'tollersuu I .Mauf; another Clms-ti.ii Clms-ti.ii Jen-en, and Chr s i. m New bel. ol Alt Ple.irair; one ol Kplnain or Moroni; ami 1. tie from Cache Valley, whose' names could not be ascertained- This was a ::re.it blow tot'ie fain.lv, especially to the mother who looked upon her eldest eld-est Son as the st .ill of her old age, the guide and meiitot for the two younger brothers. Mr. Neils.m, always ola leeble constitution, was failing quite rauidly, arid was losing his eye signt, so that the cna ces bet re this boy was not the brightest. The educational advantages enjoyed bv him c uisis ed of one term at a very iuferior district school during Ihe in si r g .rolls part ol the winter. The remainder of the tune was spent in active ac-tive wailaie with poverty, and keeping tne grim wdf from ihe door. During the summer he farmed, and during ihe winter worked in the canyon or went to where ta Iroad build. ug Would give him cash employment. When he was seventeen years old be took a trip to Nevada where he engaged in ch ipping cold wood and driving xeu as did hundreds ol young men. Ho was hiied by Flabe Omii,- uUuvs .f liugham Youlig. This man engaged him to drive oxen at J.(5 per mouth, but succe sively raised his wages until it ' reached J-5o, and he was puL in churge of the train. He says in speaking ol ibis experience that he "graduated in the science of ox driving " 11. was once introductd to Erasius Snow as the one man in the country who could (b ivt oxen without swearing. Ile never 1 dul-ged dul-ged in the very d nibitul pleasures ol the giming table, k or ktbe hq.ioi bar. bin sent Ins money home. Afler an absence nf fourteen nionthc ' This view of success is 'tightened per-hapt. per-hapt. by a jedoiis dread ni.ieor less present with every iudiv dual to detract ah r til 111 add to the merit i( any; sp cial individual unless he is 1 dead. S 1 in spite of history and biography, bio-graphy, w iic!i is aim lit al.vays conclusive conclu-sive evidence to tiie couti.uy, the opinion opin-ion still ptevaiu thai th s s iccessful were specially favoivd. The following is subjoined that all may have an opportniiily of seeing what the especially f.tvoiing leatuies cf Mr. N.elso i's caieer have l.-eeii. Ile wh ho 11 on 111. ist, iSs t in Sweden, st i;ed at a place owned by his mother I his property consisting of a small house and a veiy small piece of ground, w uoh was utilized as a vegcla tde gaitlen. When be was between .three ail I :tr years old this place was 'sold, Ins ;,. runts rein ed to Den111.uk. There t ie gospel met llieni and they embiaced 11 They were baptized bv Mats Andeisuu, who is nt the tine of this writing still living, and a itsident M Mt. Pleasant. When liweu was six years old he was put into a clrckoiy factory where he remained, re-mained, until one day before lie w 1 1 his "mother, a younger brother, and a s ster sailed for Aok-ixh. Hie sttr succiimed to the hardships 0 the journey over the plains .'iid was bin ied oil the bleak expanse " muny ti nts, wnbt m a cotTiin or m irk to tell that a human , . body li.y buried thto. The lather and one brolhur remained behind ns the family ueie not 111 possesion posse-sion ofciiflic'eut means to bung nil. The sa ling vessel 111 which liny took passage Kf 011 the hist ul Apr, I, iSGj and was five weeks in crossing tl.e Atlantic 'Ihey landed at Castle Garden, and tot.k rail to some point 011 the Missoim river. From there they travelei up the muddv Missouri to l loience, the place wheie the trains of ox learns went each year to m ;et the incoming emigration. The 'train i f teams sent to meet the newcom- he relumed to Fairview and hu ll the old fo'ks a small but comfortable house, into win h he moved theni.and in which alter some montns his lather died Thus at ihe immature age 01 eighteen he became be-came Ihe head f the family. S bse-q bse-q enily he returned to the employment of Flabe Gieeu where he com unlet! for came home the biief plain notes of those years a e an Index to a faithful and am-sciencious am-sciencious performance ol duty and a pure faith whic 1 would make a very interesting in-teresting story if written. On the 14th. dayol February, 1S7S, in ihe St. George Temple, he married Miss Rachel Atkiii, t f that citv, and the next dav began his journey notlhwatd to Faiiview, bringing Ins seventeen year old biide 10 dwill am nig entire strangers A year previous to his marriage he ;?ad taken up a tract ol land nine in Is-s north ul Fmvirw and formed A Co pann-rsliip w th his br .tiler Lus which su I continues. contin-ues. : hi tiie 17.il. d iv of Oc ober.iSSs. he re Ct ived a diiect call fr m Pres. Ta lor. to takeaui ssi n toScandiuavia. II s health h 1. ' b en ! a I l it some tune, but after c iiis'ihin; me bishop . f his w ard, he arraigned ar-raigned his b isiness affairs itiif riegan Ins i miiev oil the nioin ug of the 6th. and I.-aving Salt L.ke Cty i n the I 1 uf N vembei.1H.S5. Went to New Yolk by way of Ogd -n, Denver, Kansas Citv, Chicago A N agara Falls. On the 17th. of t!ie same m unh they went onboard the steamer 1 Alynsinia," and an ived 111 Liverpool on the morning u tin 29, and reached his destination, Copenhagen, on December 1 t He lahon d pr ncipallv in Sweden but his health Continued had.he was releaseJ the following summer, and Cam : home un his return he and his brother engaged en-gaged in the lumber business wlucn at ers thw year was largely, if tint eniiiely (run San l'eit;tlie man wlio had bruiilit t iem tha i.e liiil lived M Mi.Pledsani; su the mother wiih her tlnee little ones deciJeJ to make Ml. Pleasant tli ir In iur li mie. On! the weary jouint-y atrust the plains! Timse who have experieuceJ ii, will nevei forget it, and 1,1 eil no reminder of the terrible exper-. exper-. ience. Those who have not experienced it 110 word-painting, no matter huw bril- I .nt or gtnpliic can ever speak a tithe of il. The mill w.tt but poorly supplied with f jod as t v,u etv; 1 lie womeii were Uiiaccusiiiin. U to cooking at .ill in many cases, ceiiai ily not over a camp tiie nn le ol 11. ill lo chips. Ki.od i.f tiie most con leiis.t U naiuie mus; he piuvid-eil piuvid-eil in oidci 1I1.11 enough sliuuM lie n..u. eJ, and a sle.idy diet ol b.icon .11. d soda hiead, tlir I 'id ul lln: en lieti.iii was Ji it such as kepi the. 11 in ,1 health. . Hie c uiist: filicii navel c uld lie seen plainlx d lined be l:ie u'-ivcsi l tneir de.ul I . ..us i.-it Mclioiil i.u.tv c .nti b-uted b-uted i n- 1 linh'-iil. Ah.m; 1 ii- 2 ii. .,f Sop:e:iiber the train arrive I i 1 Sail L iku a 1 I I i t'iu ii at. II ime I al jv , ta j M h i.t witn her tw.i leniainin cli.l.lien, and a nuaijer ol ot'ier e.n i a.i (, wciii to M . I'ie ivii,l Theyjike 1 cailvall the eiii:iauis who Came, had e.!;a:.s ed u II llie.i tncai.s 11. reaching the Ak-ca of their desires. Mi. Nelseu speaks with the deceit feeling anj wa ni st gratitude, of tie r reception into the h.iuse of Mats Andeison, to wiioin Ihey came ns tliey might to a father ami the charity and kindness of the people ol Mt. Pleasant, who did all in tiiei' power to make them comfortable. A little sou was born to his mother about tlnee davs after then arrival. Tliey had walked almost every toot of the way acioss the plains, and bnly experience can depict what that j lainey must have been 10 her. Surely only a deep conviction is capable of such a sacr lice. ' For the next iw years, his nioihei be n..; unable to pu ide lor so many. Siven lived a'jjut at vaiious palces whenever his services would be accepted accept-ed for bis b.iard, and in conforming to the different customs, ideas and habits of the people grown hard and rough by -Contact wi.h a hard lot and a rouli life, lie nvi have absorbed a great deal of experience, of uo'veiy agreeable limine. 'ai s mis places lie was sent to peifonn tasks, beyond bis strength and tinder-stan tinder-stan Jin.'; at others he was put to washing wash-ing dishes, scrubbing lloors, darning stockings and braiding hats. In speaking speak-ing ol tiiu ni liter Mr. Nielson said: "1 am not ashamed of it. and could do it again f il weie necessaiy. M was considered con-sidered a go id d sh washer, and could datn a stockin; as neat as any lad',; and braid and sew a good straw hat. A little education in that line gives a man a better ida f what a wumau's work in the house is.it makes him appreciative appre-ciative of what is done, and f Jibe iiinn When everything not just so." Early in the s-fc mil year of t.ieir sojourn so-journ in Jit. PI asaut the people built a little house for his mother, that as half dug out and half le iu-io, here she managed man-aged by uuremi. ting toil to keep heisHf and two younger children . i nrst was rattier up hill woik but is new a success. Mr. N ilson, unlike many men, seems proud to say that through the yeais ol d iiibiful success, when every extra dollar dol-lar .f expense, seemed likely to tip the scales to the side ol failure instead of success, that bis wife nobly helped to bear ih 1 hardens, woikiii side by side witli him. Mr. Swen O. Neilsiai has served the public in oiKcial capacity fur many ye rs, has always acquitted hiniscll with honor.and was recenrlytleeted one ol the Selec men for San Pete Co. This, then, is the ladder by which hoii oiable men m)iint to success. Ka thfulness to every duty 110 matter i how small, h onestv, temperance, industry indus-try aini a real desire to be of service to tiieii fellowmeu |