Post by Eric Standridge on Oct 27, 2011 9:22:57 GMT -6
Mathews Nelson, postmaster of Bokoshe, has been identified with Le Flore county since 1903. He has been active in the western country since his youth, and the states of Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma have been the scenes of his business activities for more than a dozen years. His relation to his present town is that of a developer of its business affairs, and his present standing marks the climax of his achievements as a citizen and as a leading factor in the commerce and public affairs of the community. Born in Rutherford county, Tennessee, March 19, 1878, Mr. Nelson is a son of Lycurgus Nelson, a farmer and stockman who married Eva B. Weekley, a native of Tennessee but of Virginia parentage. Both parents are deceased. The issue of their marriage were Weekley, a resident of Kentucky; Lycurgus, of Tavlor, Texas; Robert M., of New York City; Eva May, wife of W. B. Smith, general superintendent of Whithed and Wheeler's Lumber Company, of Alden Bridge, Louisiana; Mathews, of this notice; Warford, of Potosi, Mexico; Brownie, now Mrs. Max J. Bell, of Trinidad, Colorado; and W. L., who is living at Bokoshe, Oklahoma.
Postmaster Nelson was educated in the public school, but his character was formed more by his business experiences than by the schoolmen. At a very early age he left school to assume a position with C. H. Harwell, a leading business man of Quannah, Texas, and remained with him for seven years, then entering the service of the R. L. Trigg Lumber Company, at Noble, Louisiana. After four years he resigned his position as manager of their commissary department, located at Bokoshe and became identified with the lumber business there. He became one of the promoters of the Citizens Bank of that place, and is now manager of the Peoples Lumber Company and controls considerable farming interests in Le Flore county.
Mr. Nelson has been as conspicuous in politics as he has in business. He served as chairman of the Republican Club of his township during the recent presidential campaign, has frequently been a delegate to political conventions, and in 1908 was one of the secretaries of the state convention of his party at Oklahoma City, being also sent as a delegate to the statehood convention at Tulsa which paved the way for the admission of Oklahoma as a state. Mr. Nelson was honored with appointment to the postmastership at Bokoshe in November, 1907. On April 28, 1901, he was married at Charleston, Mississippi, to Elizabeth F. Neely, a daughter of John T. Neely, chancery clerk and for many years a merchant of Tallahatchie county, that state. Mr. Neely was a Confederate soldier and is a representative of one of the ancient families of the south.
Postmaster Nelson was educated in the public school, but his character was formed more by his business experiences than by the schoolmen. At a very early age he left school to assume a position with C. H. Harwell, a leading business man of Quannah, Texas, and remained with him for seven years, then entering the service of the R. L. Trigg Lumber Company, at Noble, Louisiana. After four years he resigned his position as manager of their commissary department, located at Bokoshe and became identified with the lumber business there. He became one of the promoters of the Citizens Bank of that place, and is now manager of the Peoples Lumber Company and controls considerable farming interests in Le Flore county.
Mr. Nelson has been as conspicuous in politics as he has in business. He served as chairman of the Republican Club of his township during the recent presidential campaign, has frequently been a delegate to political conventions, and in 1908 was one of the secretaries of the state convention of his party at Oklahoma City, being also sent as a delegate to the statehood convention at Tulsa which paved the way for the admission of Oklahoma as a state. Mr. Nelson was honored with appointment to the postmastership at Bokoshe in November, 1907. On April 28, 1901, he was married at Charleston, Mississippi, to Elizabeth F. Neely, a daughter of John T. Neely, chancery clerk and for many years a merchant of Tallahatchie county, that state. Mr. Neely was a Confederate soldier and is a representative of one of the ancient families of the south.