From the Northfield News:
AFTER YEARS OF BROKEN HEALTH, NELSON C. KINSEY PASSES FROM EARTH. Entered into rest at his home, 105 Nevada street, Northfield, Minn., Monday, at 12:40 p.m. May 11, 1903, of progressive paresis, Nelson C. Kinsey, aged fifty-seven years, ten months and five days. Nelson C. Kinsey was born at Moline, Illinois, July 6, 1845. His parents moved to Geneseo when he was but a child. Early in life he cherished the ambition to acquire a higher education but being obliged to relinquish that ideal, he entered a store in Geneseo at the age of seventeen and continued steadily in the same mercantile business for twenty-two years, first as clerk and later as a partner in the firm. In the autumn of 1884 Mr. Kinsey came to Northfield, Minn., where he opened a store and continued in business until 1896 when failing health compelled him to close out. Since that time he has been engaged in various occupations specially chosen to keep him in the open air, the last three years having served as carrier for the first rural mail route. After thirty-four years of close application to mercantile pursuits he enjoyed the change to outdoor activity and without doubt it prolonged his life. He united with the church in early manhood and ever lived a true, consistent, christian life. Mr. Kinsey was married to Alice S. Fitch, at Hastings, Minn., in 1877. Of a singularly pure character, his tastes were refined. Music, literature, art, and the society of friends, were precious things to him. Of a naturally cheerful temperament and gentle disposition, he was well fitted to help build an ideal home. To this home and his family he gave the truest devotion. Always and everywhere a gentleman in the truest sense, never forgetful of the rights of others, always pleasant and companionable, he made for himself a wide circle of friends who will ever hold him in affectionate remembrance. Surely a good and true man has gone to his reward, and "the memory of the just is blessed." Funeral services conducted by the Rev. James E. McConnell, will be held at the home on Wednesday afternoon at three oclock. Interment at Oaklawn Cemetery.
AFTER YEARS OF BROKEN HEALTH, NELSON C. KINSEY PASSES FROM EARTH. Entered into rest at his home, 105 Nevada street, Northfield, Minn., Monday, at 12:40 p.m. May 11, 1903, of progressive paresis, Nelson C. Kinsey, aged fifty-seven years, ten months and five days. Nelson C. Kinsey was born at Moline, Illinois, July 6, 1845. His parents moved to Geneseo when he was but a child. Early in life he cherished the ambition to acquire a higher education but being obliged to relinquish that ideal, he entered a store in Geneseo at the age of seventeen and continued steadily in the same mercantile business for twenty-two years, first as clerk and later as a partner in the firm. In the autumn of 1884 Mr. Kinsey came to Northfield, Minn., where he opened a store and continued in business until 1896 when failing health compelled him to close out. Since that time he has been engaged in various occupations specially chosen to keep him in the open air, the last three years having served as carrier for the first rural mail route. After thirty-four years of close application to mercantile pursuits he enjoyed the change to outdoor activity and without doubt it prolonged his life. He united with the church in early manhood and ever lived a true, consistent, christian life. Mr. Kinsey was married to Alice S. Fitch, at Hastings, Minn., in 1877. Of a singularly pure character, his tastes were refined. Music, literature, art, and the society of friends, were precious things to him. Of a naturally cheerful temperament and gentle disposition, he was well fitted to help build an ideal home. To this home and his family he gave the truest devotion. Always and everywhere a gentleman in the truest sense, never forgetful of the rights of others, always pleasant and companionable, he made for himself a wide circle of friends who will ever hold him in affectionate remembrance. Surely a good and true man has gone to his reward, and "the memory of the just is blessed." Funeral services conducted by the Rev. James E. McConnell, will be held at the home on Wednesday afternoon at three oclock. Interment at Oaklawn Cemetery.
From the Northfield News:
AFTER YEARS OF BROKEN HEALTH, NELSON C. KINSEY PASSES FROM EARTH. Entered into rest at his home, 105 Nevada street, Northfield, Minn., Monday, at 12:40 p.m. May 11, 1903, of progressive paresis, Nelson C. Kinsey, aged fifty-seven years, ten months and five days. Nelson C. Kinsey was born at Moline, Illinois, July 6, 1845. His parents moved to Geneseo when he was but a child. Early in life he cherished the ambition to acquire a higher education but being obliged to relinquish that ideal, he entered a store in Geneseo at the age of seventeen and continued steadily in the same mercantile business for twenty-two years, first as clerk and later as a partner in the firm. In the autumn of 1884 Mr. Kinsey came to Northfield, Minn., where he opened a store and continued in business until 1896 when failing health compelled him to close out. Since that time he has been engaged in various occupations specially chosen to keep him in the open air, the last three years having served as carrier for the first rural mail route. After thirty-four years of close application to mercantile pursuits he enjoyed the change to outdoor activity and without doubt it prolonged his life. He united with the church in early manhood and ever lived a true, consistent, christian life. Mr. Kinsey was married to Alice S. Fitch, at Hastings, Minn., in 1877. Of a singularly pure character, his tastes were refined. Music, literature, art, and the society of friends, were precious things to him. Of a naturally cheerful temperament and gentle disposition, he was well fitted to help build an ideal home. To this home and his family he gave the truest devotion. Always and everywhere a gentleman in the truest sense, never forgetful of the rights of others, always pleasant and companionable, he made for himself a wide circle of friends who will ever hold him in affectionate remembrance. Surely a good and true man has gone to his reward, and "the memory of the just is blessed." Funeral services conducted by the Rev. James E. McConnell, will be held at the home on Wednesday afternoon at three oclock. Interment at Oaklawn Cemetery.
AFTER YEARS OF BROKEN HEALTH, NELSON C. KINSEY PASSES FROM EARTH. Entered into rest at his home, 105 Nevada street, Northfield, Minn., Monday, at 12:40 p.m. May 11, 1903, of progressive paresis, Nelson C. Kinsey, aged fifty-seven years, ten months and five days. Nelson C. Kinsey was born at Moline, Illinois, July 6, 1845. His parents moved to Geneseo when he was but a child. Early in life he cherished the ambition to acquire a higher education but being obliged to relinquish that ideal, he entered a store in Geneseo at the age of seventeen and continued steadily in the same mercantile business for twenty-two years, first as clerk and later as a partner in the firm. In the autumn of 1884 Mr. Kinsey came to Northfield, Minn., where he opened a store and continued in business until 1896 when failing health compelled him to close out. Since that time he has been engaged in various occupations specially chosen to keep him in the open air, the last three years having served as carrier for the first rural mail route. After thirty-four years of close application to mercantile pursuits he enjoyed the change to outdoor activity and without doubt it prolonged his life. He united with the church in early manhood and ever lived a true, consistent, christian life. Mr. Kinsey was married to Alice S. Fitch, at Hastings, Minn., in 1877. Of a singularly pure character, his tastes were refined. Music, literature, art, and the society of friends, were precious things to him. Of a naturally cheerful temperament and gentle disposition, he was well fitted to help build an ideal home. To this home and his family he gave the truest devotion. Always and everywhere a gentleman in the truest sense, never forgetful of the rights of others, always pleasant and companionable, he made for himself a wide circle of friends who will ever hold him in affectionate remembrance. Surely a good and true man has gone to his reward, and "the memory of the just is blessed." Funeral services conducted by the Rev. James E. McConnell, will be held at the home on Wednesday afternoon at three oclock. Interment at Oaklawn Cemetery.
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