Julia bullard nelson circa 1866

Julia Bullard nelson

By macikiecker

  • Nelson is Born

    Born in Redwing

  • *Civil war begins

  • *Freedmen's Bureau is established by Congress

  • *Civil war ends

  • *KKK is founded

    Founder: Confederate Civil War veterans Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord

  • Nelson married former classmate Ole Nelson.

  • Nelson marries Ole

  • Nelson's infant son, Cyrus, dies

  • Nelson's husband, Ole dies

  • *Nelson goes to the South

  • *Nelson returned to Columbus, TX

    The fall of 1870

  • *Nelson leaves Columbus, TX

    The schools close in June for the Summer and with yellow fever spreading, Nelson goes home so she doesn't get sick.

  • *Nelson moves to Jonesboro TN

    Julia B. Nelson was transferred by the Quakers to Jonesboro,
    Tennessee, where she taught at the Warner Institute for the following nine years.

  • Nelson became a public speaker for the WCTU

    In the early 1880s, Nelson, a member of the Minnesota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), assumed duty as a public speaker for the group. She also worked as superintendent for the state WCTU and was its vice president. She handled editing the group's newspaper, the Minnesota White Ribboner.

  • Nelson helped form the MWSA

    Nelson joined fourteen other women, including Dr. Martha George Ripley, in forming the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA).

  • *Nelson leaves the south

  • Nelson became MWSA president

  • Nelson allied the MWSA with Ignatius Donnelly

  • Nelson resigned from MWSA president

  • Nelson gets bronchitis

    During the winter of 1912, at age seventy-one, Nelson was diagnosed with bronchitis.

  • Nelson attends National Women's Sufferage Convention

    Nelson's physician suggested a long rest in Florida, and she followed his advice. But on her way south she stopped in Washington, D.C. to attend the NWSC.

  • Nelson began a tour of ND for women's rights

    Nelson could not resist working, and in late fall 1914, started a long, painful train tour of North Dakota, working for women's voting rights.

  • Nelson dies of pneumonia