“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


NELSON WILLIS,  jeweler, Palmyra; born in Cayuga Co., N.Y., in 
1827; came to Wisconsin in 1845, locating in Racine Co., where he lived 
fourteen years; removed to Washington Co., where he resided fourteen 
years, and where he was in the jewelry business.  Locating in Palmyra, 
he worked at his trade for a number of years and opened a shop in 1871.  
He married Mrs. Almira McGibbon, of Milwaukee, Sept. 27, 1865.  Mr. 
Willis is a Republican and a member of the Close Communion Baptist 
Church, but believes in free communion.  He suffered about thirty-five 
years with epilepsy and rheumatism, but is now a well man, and credits 
his cure to the use of Wisconsin Spring, No. 2, and the Bidwell Spring.  
He learned his business under the direction of three skilled workmen, 
and, with his practical experience of twenty-five years, is prepared to 
guarantee satisfaction in his work, also in price and quality of goods.


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