Percival Dalton

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Percival Dalton
Played by	Steve Tracy
Gender	Male
Debut	He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (Part 1)
Occupation	Restaurant manager, storekeeper

Percival Dalton is the husband of Nellie Oleson.

Born into a Jewish family and named Issac Cohen, he chose to escape his family tradition and create a life for himself, and renamed himself as Percival Dalton.

As a gift for finishing school, Harriet and Nels gifted Nellie with a restaurant, and Percival was hired to teach Nellie how to manage it. Nellie still had a mean disposition at first, but Percival eventually got her to change her ways.

Percival fell in love with Nellie and chose to marry her, much to the chagrin of Nellie's Christian mother and Percival's Jewish parents.

Percival and Nellie had two children; Jennifer and Benjamin Dalton. Percival's father passed soon after, and in result, they moved to New York so that Percival could run his father's store.

[edit] Behind the scenes

Steve Tracy, the actor who portrayed Percival, died in 1986 of AIDS-related causes.