Knute Nelson

1843 - 1923  (80 years)

• Name	Knute Nelson  [1]
  Born	2 Feb 1843	Voss, Hordaland, Norway   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Apr 1923	Timonium, Maryland, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I2052	Mehl and Styve | The Styve Family in Canada
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2016

  
  

  Father	Helge Knutson Styve,   b. 1807
  Mother	Ingebjørg Haldorsdatter Kvilekval
  Family ID	F660	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nicholina M. Jacobsen
  Married	1867
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2016
  Family ID	F661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 2 Feb 1843 - Voss, Hordaland, Norway  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Nelson Knute - Oval.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Knute Nelson, also known as Knud Evanger, was a Norwegian-American attorney and politician active in both Wisconsin and Minnesota. A Republican, he served in state and national positions: he was elected to the Wisconsin and Minnesota legislatures, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Minnesota, and he served as the 12th Governor of Minnesota. He was the first Scandinavian-born American to be elected to the Senate. He is known for promoting the Nelson Act of 1889 to consolidate the Ojibwe/Chippewa in Minnesota on a western reservation in the state, and require the breakup of their communal land by allotting it to individual households, with sales of the remainder to anyone, including non-natives. This was similar to the Dawes Act of 1887, which had applied to Native American lands in the Indian Territory. Knute Nelson was born out of wedlock in Voss, Norway to Ingebjørg Haldorsdatter Kvilekval, who named him Knud Evanger. He was baptized by his uncle on their farm of Kvilekval, who recorded his father as Helge Knudsen Styve. This is unconfirmed. Various theories persist about Knud's paternity, including one involving Gjest Baardsen, a famous outlaw. [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org), accessed 17 Jul 2016), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knute_Nelson (Reliability: 3).