Riverside
County
Biographies
ROBERT E. NELSON
Robert E. Nelson, attorney at law,
with offices in the Citizens National Bank Building at Riverside, is a native
of the Hoosier state but from childhood has lived in California and is thoroughly
western in spirit and interests. He was
born in Brookston, Indiana, March 11, 1891, a son of Robert J. Nelson, who was
also born in that state and is now engaged in the mercantile business in
Georgetown, California. The mother,
Rebecca (Benjamin) Nelson, is a native of White County, Indiana, and a daughter
of P. Miller Benjamin of Los Angeles, California, who reached the advanced age
of ninety years before passing away. Of
the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Nelson four are now living.
At the early age of nine months
Robert E. Nelson came with the family to California and at Riverside he was a
pupil in the grammar and high schools.
After taking a three years’ course in the University of California at
Berkeley he enrolled as a student in the University of Southern California at
Los Angeles, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1915, and in June of the
same year was admitted to the bar in that city.
He entered upon his career as an attorney in Riverside but laid aside
his practice to enlist for service in the World War, joining the
Quartermaster’s Corps, and as a corporal of the Three Hundred and Sixth Supply
Company was on active duty overseas.
When mustered out he resumed his legal work in Riverside and here he has
since followed his profession uninterruptedly.
His keen analytical powers and thorough grasp of the fundamental
principles of jurisprudence have enabled him to successfully cope with the
intricate problems of the law and consequently his clientele has steadily grown
in volume as well as in importance.
In 1920 was solemnized the marriage
of Robert E. Nelson and Alvina Williams, a daughter of W. E. Williams of
Minnesota and they now have two children, Robert Marshall and Wendell Alvin,
the former ten and the latter seven years of age. The parents are members of the First
Christian Church and Mrs. Nelson is active in religious work and in women’s
clubs. Mr. Nelson belongs to the
American Legion, and fraternally he is a Mason, identified with Evergreen
Lodge, No. 259, F. & A. M., and all the Scottish Rite
bodies. He is a member of the Riverside
County and California State Bar Associations and an able attorney who has ever
in mind the dignity and responsibility of his profession.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. III, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 227-228, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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