Born: September 24, 1793, near Jonesboro, Tennessee.
Died: October 17, 1844.
Nelson graduated from Washington College, Virginia, in 1819, and took his M.D. degree in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1812. He served as a surgeon during the War of 1812, but in 1823, he gave up medicine and subsequently became a Presbyterian minister. He held several posts, and founded two manual labor colleges, one at Greenfields, and the other near Quincy, Illinois. He eventually became president of Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Quincy.
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