Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 349 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
Bank, Philip Sanger's residence and the First
Congregational Church. At present he is
working in Ennis, Texas, and building two
or three business houses in Dallas. He
manufactures all the sash, doors and blinds
which he uses in his building. In this line
he has sufficient work to keep a small mill
running.
Mr. Nelson was born in Denmark, in 1844,
the son of N. and Mary (Schon) Nelson, natives
also of Denmark, who passed their lives
there. He learned his trade at Copenhagen
and came to America in 1867, settling in
New York. Subsequently he went to New
Orleans, and in 1870 came to Galveston, and
in 1873 to Dallas. Here he has been active
in the upbuilding of the city, in which he
has seen many and marked changes in its
development. He materially aided in organizing
the Builders' Exchange.
Mr. Nelson married Fannie Cobitz, a native
of Austria, and they have had two children,
namely: Lewis, who is now learning
the bricklayers' trade; and Charles, who is
at Stanton, Virginia, attending college. In
political matters Mr. Nelson is a Democrat,
but is not active in the councils of the party.
He is a member of the First Congregational
Church of Dallas, in which society he has
held offices.
ANIEL MORGAN, brick and stone
contractor, Dallas, was born in Fifeshire,
Scotland, in 1839, the youngest
of the ten children of George and Annie
(Tosch) Morgan, natives also of Scotland.
His father, a stone mason, died in 1861, and
his mother some years later. After learning
his trade, in his native land, he left there, at
the age of nineteen years, and came on asteamer from Glasgow to New Yorlk, and
worked in Brooklyn for some years. In 1861
he went to London, Canada, and worked at
his trade there for a time; then returned to
New York city, and afterward proceeded to
Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, and became a
railroad contractor in that State and in Alabama;
next he was in Kansas City a number
of years. In the autumn of 1872 he came
from Alabama to Dallas, and since then he
has taken a great deal of responsible work,
putting up many of the leading business
houses,-notably those of Badgett Bros.,
Thomas Bros. (50 x 200), on Camp and Griffin
streets, the seven-story Scolland building on
Main street, with granite front, the {Merchants'
Bank, S. K. Richardson's residence,
the basement of the courthouse at McKinney,
etc., besides some fine buildings in Austin.
For about five years he was employed on the
Denver
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/349/?rotate=270: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.