William Nelson Page
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William Nelson Page was an American civil engineer and industrialist. He was active in the Virginias following the U.S. Civil War. Page was widely known as a metallurgical expert by other industry lea
A view of the Page-Vawter House in Ansted, West Virginia from the Midland Trail
Bituminous coal
Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson
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Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson was an immigrant from England who became a wealthy merchant at Yorktown in the Colony of Virginia. His children married into the First Families of Virginia, achieving not on
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…Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, where his wife, Emma, who died the following 14 February, is also buried. The Nelson lineage in Virginia began with Thomas "Scotch Tom" Nelson (1677–1745), a Scottish immigrant who settled at Yorktown in 1690. He was from Penrith (in present-day Cumbria). His son, William Nelson (1711–1772…
Nelson's house in Yorktown