Home › N › Nelson, Julia Bullard

Nelson, Julia Bullard

educator, lecturer, philanthropist, was born May 13, 1842, in High Ridge, Ky. She has taught school in Minnesota, Connecticut, Texas, and Tennessee; and has attained success as lecturer and missionary. For many years she was an organizer and lecturer of the Minnesota National American Woman Suffrage association; and became famous in the lecture field as the champion of woman's right to the ballot.

She has been president of the Minnesota Woman's Suffrage association; and viceand vicepresident of the Woman's Christian Temperance union of Minnesota. She is the widow of a soldier and spent many years as a missionary among the freed men of the south, and has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.