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Show I ANDREW C. NELSON SUMMONED, 'State Superintendent of Public Schoolj of Utah Dies After Long and Futile Fight. Salt Lake City. Andrew Clarence Nelson, state superintendent of public Instruction in Utah, first vice-president !of the National Education association and one of the best knovfh'and most .beloved educators Vin the Unltea .States, died atg o'clock Friday morn-ling morn-ling at his home in this city. Mr. Nelson Nel-son har j)een a sufferer (or twenty-fivL-Years from cancer, during which .time he had undergone nine operations. opera-tions. Superintendent Nelson was a native of Utah. He was a son of Mads P Nelson and Margaret Hansen Nelson, who came to Utah in 1362. Pie was born January 20, 1S64, at Ephraim, Sanpete county; where he passed his boyhood., His earliest desire as a boy was to secure a broaa and thorough education. |