Viewing Knute Nelson: "Early Experiences in Minnesota" (1923).Knute Nelson: "Early Experiences in Minnesota" (1923).After he moved from Wisconsin, where he was a member of the bar, to Alexandria in Douglas County, Minnesota in 1871, Knute Nelson overcame hardships that would have driven many other lawyers back across the border. He related these experiences decades later, when he was a U. S. Senator, to the editor of the Alexandria Post News and they were republished in the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune on April 29, 1923, the day after he died at age eighty-one. |