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					Colonial Settlers : Henry Nelems
			The Land Colonial Settlers Community of Villages Pre-emptions Agriculture Timelines Image Gallery		Henry Nelems (1844-1915) was born in Ontario, one of eleven children born to William and Eliza Nelems. He received limited schooling before beginning his working life. In 1864, he left Ontario for California. In 1865, he made a journey north to join his sister and brother-in-law in the new settlement of Chilliwack. He purchased a 250-acre farm in 1868. In 1869 he left the area and returned to Ontario and worked on the family farm. Thirty years later on the death of his father, he sold everything and returned to Chilliwack and bought a 55-acre farm, 1.6 kilometers from town. He was married twice, first to Sarah Jane Davis and, then to, Isabelle Howell.
							P445- Formal portrait of Henry Nelems

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