FREDERICK E. NELSON

Alderman Fred. E. Nelson, was boni in Montréal in 1853, and is the youngest son of the late Alderman Horatio A. Nelson, who was a member of the Montréal Council for fourteen years, the greater part of which time he served as chairman of the Finance Committee. In 1868 the présent Alderman Nelson entered the business of H. A. Nelson & Sons, which his father had established and carried it on, after the latter's death, until January 1901, when, in conséquence of a conflagration which destroyed the warehouse, the firm decided to wind up its business. The firm had been in opération for sixt3-three years as wholesale dealers of fancy goods, toys, notions, etc..