Nils Nelson
Nils Nelson-Master Stonemason By John Sielaff
Of the Swedes who worked on the construction of the Capitol possibly the best known around the job site was master stonemason Nils Nelson. Nils Nilsson was born in 1864 and grew up in Kristianstads län in southern Sweden. Nils’ birthplace, like his father Nils Jeppsson, was Vestra Lingby in the parish of Trolle Ljungby but when Nils was 10 the family, which included mother Ingar Svendsdotter and four sons and two daughters, moved to Edenryd in the neighboring parish of Ivetofte.