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History of Buffalo & Pepin Counties, Wisconsin - Vol. 1
pub. H. C. Cooper, Jr. & Co., Winona, MN - 1919

         [page 154]

         GOTTLIEB NOLD, president of the First National Bank of Nelson,
       Buffalo county, for 8 years, now retired, and a man who has had
       a varied and successful career as farmer, stock dealer and finan-
       cier, was born in Germany, Sept. 14, 1839, son of PHILLIP and ANNA
       (ABELIUS) NOLD. The father was a butcher by trade and he and his
       wife spent their lives in their native land, where they died. They
       had four children: GOTTLIEB, LOUIS, HELEN and CAROLINE, two of whom,
       LOUIS and GOTTLIEB, emigrated to the United States, Louis coming
       first and settling in Sauk county, Wisconsin. In 1857 GOTTLIEB came
       to this country. It was in the fall of the year, as his eighteenth
       birthday occured on shipboard. Landing after a 36 days' voyage, he
       came west to Sauk county, this state. He had worked on a farm in
       Germany, and also in a butcher's shop,  and soon found employment
       in agricultural work. While there he married WILHELMINA YONKE, and
       in 1861 he and his family loaded their household goods into a wagon
       and set out for Buffalo county, on their arrival here locating on
       a tract of 120 acres of wild land on Trout creek, Nelson township.
       Not long afterwards his wife died, leaving three children: GOTTLIEB,
       JR., LOUIS and HELEN. Subsequently, MR. NOLD married ANNA ZELLER,
       of which union one child was born, named CAROLINE. MR. NOLD re-
       mained on his farm for 30 years, during most of which time he was
       engaged extensively in stock buying and shipping. In his buying
       operations, he often walked all over the county, stick in hand, and
       his business grew until at last he was shipping from 80 to 100 car-
       loads a year. He also served for some time on the town board as
       supervisor. About 1887 he sold the farm and removed to the then new
       settlement of Nelson, being among the first arrivals here. Remember-
       ing his youthful experience in the meat business, he opened a market
       in the village, and in time built up a good trade, continuing in
       that occupation until 1906. From the first he has identified himself
       with the progress and development of Nelson, and was one of the
       organizers of the Farmers' State Bank, now the First National Bank
       of Nelson, of which he was president for 8 years. His religious
       affiliations are with the German Lutheran church, and he belongs
       to the Odd Fellows' lodge, at Wabasha, Minn.

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