Dr. Harold L Nelson

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Obituary- Nelson, Harold L.

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DR. NELSON, DIES
Dr. H. L. Nelson, minister of the Rossville Presbyterian church for five years, 1902 to 1907, died Tuesday at Presbyterian Manor in Newton. Funeral Services for the retired minister will be at 4 p. m. today ill Newton and at 2 p. m. Friday at Potwin Presbyterian church in Topeka. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery.

A native of Indian Hill, Ohio, Dr. Nelson taught school for several years and attended Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, before coming to Kansas in 1897.

He was graduated from Washburn University in 1900 and received a master’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1902. He then came to Rossville for five years before going to the Potwin church where he remained until 1935. He became pastor emeritus of Potwin Church in 1935. The pastor was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree by College of Emporia in 1923. In 1929 he was moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Kansas.

He is survived by a son, Dr. George W. Nelson of Newton, superintendent of Presbyterian Manor, and by a foster daughter, Mrs. Roy Trostle of St. Marys.