Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Nelson Hurd
NELSON HURD
Nelson Hurd, a minister
and farmer, was born at Middlebury, Vt., September 5, 1816; he is a son
of John and Abigail (Lindsley) Hurd, natives of Vermont, of English
descent. His grandfather Hurd was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war, and was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill. Our subject
has been a resident of Ohio since one year of age, his parents having
moved from Vermont in 1817. The whole journey was made in a
wagon, the father going afoot, driving the cattle, and the mother
driving the wagon, in which the children were placed. They
settled in what is now known as Thompson Township, Delaware County,
where our subject spent his youth. He was brought up on a farm,
receiving a common school education, and followed the duties of the
farm until he was thirty years of age. He has been a member of
the Christian Church since sixteen years of age, and has been a
minister of that denomination since he was thirty, for several years of
that time devoting his time exclusively to the ministry. He has
usually owned a farm, which he conducted in connection with his
ministerial work, and now owns twenty-two acres, on which be resides,
while he officiates as pastor of the Glendale Church, which he
organized. He was married in 1839 to Miss Sylvia Decker, by whom
he has three children--Zerah, a farmer in Nebraska; Sarah, wife of I.
Taylor; and John, also a farmer in Nebraska. Mr. Hurd is a
Republican in politics.