Paul Nelson

 Back to top

Biography: 

Paul Nelson is an amateur historian and the author of Fredrick L. McGhee, A Life on the Color Line, 1861–1912 (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002), as well as numerous articles for Ramsey County History and Minnesota History magazines.

Articles: 
Crispus Attucks Home, St. Paul
Smallpox Epidemic, 1924–1925
Crex Carpet Company
State Reform School, St. Paul
National Afro-American Council Meeting, 1902
Near-Lynching of Houston Osborne
St. Paul's Original High Bridge
Execution of Ann Bilansky
St. Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
Central Park, St. Paul
Homicide at Rochester State Hospital, 1889
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul
St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral, Minneapolis
Cathedral of St. Paul
Wigington, Clarence (1883–1967)
West Side Flats, St. Paul
Johnston, Clarence H. (1859–1936)
Maas, Melvin (1898–1964)
Dayton’s
Cloquet, Duluth, and Moose Lake Fires, 1918
Hill, James J. (1838–1916)
Wellstone, Paul (1944–2002)
New Ulm Military Draft Meeting, 1917
West Publishing Company
Boyd, Frank (1881–1962)
Indian Mounds Park, St. Paul
Platteville Limestone
Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery, Minneapolis
Murder of John Hays
Halloween Blizzard, 1991
Morton Gneiss
Glensheen Historic Estate
Minnesota Freedom Riders
Francis, William T. (1869–1929)
Francis, Nellie (1874–1969)
Oak savanna
Blackmun, Harry A. (1908–1999)
Kolthoff, Izaak Maurits (1894–1993)
Church of St. Columba, St. Paul
Nelson, Rensselaer (1826–1904)
Schall, Thomas D. (1878–1935)
Clark v. United States
Winnipeg Liquor Conspiracy
Blumenfeld, Isadore “Kid Cann” (1900–1981)
Murder of Kenneth Lindberg
Martial Law in Albert Lea, 1959
Downfall of Russell Heim, 1947–1952
Whitewater State Park
John’s Bar and Funhouse Prostitution Scandal, 1952–1956
Shulman, Max (1919–1988)
Legislative Redistricting, 1959–1993
Kensington Runestone
Minnesota Eight
Malchow, Charles W. (1864–1917)
Whiteman, Alonzo J. (1860–1921)
Brown, Bob (1893–1954)
Minnesota Human Rights Act
Children’s Preventorium of Ramsey County
Rolvaag, Karl Fritjof (1913–1990)
LeVander, Karl Harold Phillip (1910–1992)
Minnesota Miracle (legislation)
Minnesota Massacre (1978 election)
Die Volkszeitung financial fraud