Portrait photograph of Alice Harford Nelson, from the Portland High School, Class of 1885 album.

Alice H. Nelson was born in January 1867 to Caroline Harford and Benjamin F. Nelson. According to the 1870 and 1880 Census records, she, with her brother Frank, a newspaper employee, and mother lived on Clark Street. According to the1900 Census, Alice worked as a clerk when she was 33 years old. She died July 25, 1929.