Albert Redford Nash was born October 6, 1852 in Lebanon, Kentucky to Col. Thomas Jefferson Nash and Elizabeth Flood (traditionally spelled Floed) Nash. He came to Texas with his parents when he was two years old. The family settled at Duck Creek and were engaged in farming. Rev. Nash reminisced about Dallas County when he…
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New Century Cotton Mills of Dallas, an ambitious project conceived around the turn of the twentieth century, was incorporated with the Texas Secretary of State in 1901. The following public notice was reported in the San Antonio Express-News on June 4, 1901. The incorporators were Phillip Sanger, Thomas D. Miller, M. H. Turner, R. C.…
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