Nimrod Lindsay Norton

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Nimrod Lindsay Norton (born April 18, 1830 in Carlisle , Kentucky , † September 28, 1903 in Austin , Texas ) was an American farmer, politician and businessman. He also served as an officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Nimrod Lindsay Norton, son of Nancy Spencer and Hiram Norton, was born and raised in Nicholas County several years before the onset of the economic crisis of 1837 . He attended the Fredonia Military Academy in New York and the Kentucky Military Institute. On October 27, 1853, he married Mary C. Hall in Nicholas County. The couple had eight children. The family then moved to Missouri , where he worked as a farmer.

At the beginning of the Civil War , Norton raised one of the first companies north of the Missouri River for defense against Union forces . He sat on the staff of Major General Sterling Price (1809-1867) and rose to colonel during the war . In May 1864 he was elected to the Second Confederate Congress , where he served until the end of the Confederation .

After the war was over, he returned to Missouri. In 1867 he moved to Texas with his family and settled in DeWitt County . They later moved to Salado , Bell County . In 1873 he was a founding member of the Grange, an agricultural group that had a strong influence on the Constituent Assembly of 1875. An 1876 paragraph in the Texas Constitution provided, surveyed, and sold 3,050,000 acres of public land in the High Plains to fund construction of the new Texas State Capitol Building in Austin. The Governor Oran M. Roberts (1815-1898) appointed Norton as Commissioner to monitor the measurement of the country in July 1879th With surveyors and an escort of rangers , Norton carried out the necessary land surveys that cleared the way for the settlement of the Llano Estacado . In his diary from August to December 1879 and in his letters to Governor Roberts, Norton described the land, daily camp life, and the flora and fauna they encountered along the way. In 1880 Norton was appointed to the three-person Capitol Building Commission , which examined eleven submitted designs for the Capitol, made a tour of the various quarries in the Austin area and carried out studies of various building materials. On February 1, 1882 Norton broke ground with another member of the Capitol Building Commission, Joseph Lee, to begin construction. Norton and his two business partners, William Harrison Westfall (* 1822) and George W. Lacy, put an end to the limestone-granite dispute by donating all of the red grants from Granite Mountain in Burnet County for the construction. Although Norton acquired land in the Montopolis area in 1872 and traveled to Austin for the annual Travis County Fairs , he continued to live in Salado. He and his family later moved to Austin. In 1893 he built a large house there, north of what is now the Travis County Courthouse. He died there in 1903 and was then buried in the local Oakwood Cemetery .

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ William Harrison Westfall on the lrl.state.tx.us website
  2. ↑ Texas State Capitol Building - NL Norton, WH Westfall and GW Lacy
  3. ↑ Gammel, Hans Peter Marcus Neilsen: The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 , Volume 9, 1898, p 173
  4. ^ Williamson County Historical Commission - Granite For The State Capitol

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SURNAME Norton, Nimrod Lindsay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American farmer, politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH near Carlisle , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1903
Place of death Austin , Texas