North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Cfjomas! i2el£(on ' H itoFEssou Thomas Nelson, to whoiii this year ' s Agroniock is appropriately j3 (letiieatcd, began his service to the College in 1901 as Instructor in Weav- iJ ing and Designing. Since 19()() he has been Professor of Textile Industry. He is an authority in his field of work, being a member of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, a writer on textile subjects for both Northern and Southern textile journals, and the author of a standard work on Weaving, Plain and Fancy. Mr. Nelson has made a thorough-going success of his work here, having won honors for our Tex-tile Department repeatedly in competition with other schools. Mr. Nelson was born in England, April 24, 1872, at Preston, Lancashire. He had his training in the public schools at Preston, in the Harris Institute Textile School at the same place, and as a private pupil in weaving and designing under Mr. John Fish, manager of the Queen ' s Mill, Preston. IVIr. Nelson holds a diploma in cotton manufacturing from Harris Institute and a certificate in weaving and design- ing from the City and Guilds of London Institute. In addition to his training in England, Mr. Nelson took in 1898 a special course in designing and cloth analysis at the Lowell (Ma.ssachusetts) Textile School, the most famous textile school in the United States. Mr. Nelson has had extensive acquaintance with both mill work and teaching. He has had experience in the following mills: Richard Goodair Springfield Mill, and Wilding Brothers ' Alexandria Mill, both of Preston, England; Ponemah Mills, Taftville, Connecticut; Merrimac Mills, Lowell, Massachusetts; Harriman Manu- facturing Co., Lowell; and Blue Ridge Manufacturing Co., Petersburg, Virginia. His experience as a teacher includes a year as Instructor in Warp Preparation and Power Loom Weaving, Lowell Textile School, and nine years of successful teaching in this College. Mr. Nelson has been a resident of this country since 1896. His wife, nee Mary Andrew, is also English by birth, having come from the Isle of Man; but Mr. and Mrs. Nelson and their throe fine children are all of them good American citizens, and are agreeable and valuable members of our College community. An honest man ' s the nnblext work nf God. N. C. Staff CnllfW

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Prof. Nelson Though modesl, on his iinembarrasscil broir Xaturc had ivritten ' Genllemnn. ' 294 If) tft-

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Welt begun is half done.