Edgar C. Nelson

     Edgar C. Nelson
(Transcribed by Jim Thoma)

Edgar C. Nelson, editor and publisher of the Bunceton Eagle, Mo., is a native son of Cooper County. He was born Aug. 17, 1883, on a farm a few miles east of Bunceton, in Cooper County, a son of T. A. and Sarah A. Nelson, a sketch of whom appears in this volume. Mr. Nelson was educated in William Jewell College. After leaving college he spent one year in Texas, and upon his return to Missouri he held a position in the University of Missouri for one year. He then purchased a farm near Bunceton and was engaged in agricultural pursuits for two years.

In 1907, he became associated with his brother, L. O. Nelson, in the management of the Bunceton Eagle. In 1915, Mr. Nelson leased the Eagle plant and business from his brother, and has achieved one of the splendid successes in the newspaper field which has placed the Eagle in the front rank of Missouri weekly newspapers. The Eagle has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Cooper County, and is the most prosperous and popular of the newspapers in this section of Missouri. The circulation exceeds 2,500-and it is the home paper of Cooper County.

Jan. 16, 1912, Mr. Nelson was married to Mrs. Celeste (Allison) Chamberlain, a widow, and to this union one child. Nell Edwina, aged five years, has been born. By a former marriage, Mrs. Nelson has a son, Robert Chamberlain.

Mr. Nelson is a democrat, and is a member of the Baptist Church. He is a past master of Lodge No. 456, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World, and the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity of William Jewell College.¹


Edgar C. Nelson was born on 17 August 1883 at Cooper Co., Mo.. He married Celeste Allison on 16 January 1912. Edgar C. Nelson died in September 1970 at Bunceton, Cooper Co., Mo., at age 87.²