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| | Samuel Kelsey Nelson |
 | | NELSON, Samuel Kelsey, clergyman, born near Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, 9 Oct:., 1787 ; died in Tallahassee, Florida, 7 May. 1827. |
 | | In 1828 he succeeded his brother Samuel as pastor of the Presbyterian church in Danville, Kentucky, and in 1830 he removed to Missouri and established Nation college, twelve miles from Palmyra, of which he became president. |
 | | In 1836, in consequence of the slavery question, Dr. Nelson, who was an ardent advocate of emancipation, removed to the neighborhood of Quincy, Illinois, and established an institute for the education of young men. |
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