Early Years
Justus was born December 22, 1850 in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, near modern-day Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His parents, James Hervey Nelson and Sarah Orelup Nelson were Wisconsin pioneers, later establishing an early farm in South Wayne, Wisconsin near the Illinois border. He was the second of nine children, the first six of which were boys, followed by three girls.
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