The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the Cottonwooddistrict, and in 1884 he engaged in stock raising. Heis a leading member of the Opera House association,a director of the Pueblo board of trade, vice-pres-ident of th
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . the Cottonwooddistrict, and in 1884 he engaged in stock raising. Heis a leading member of the Opera House association,a director of the Pueblo board of trade, vice-pres-ident of the Bessemer Ditch company, a large stock-holder in the Pueblo pressed brick manufacturingcompany, and is interested in many other public andprivate enterprises. In politics he is a democrat, andserved in the city council since its incorporation. Hewas elected representative to the third general as-sembly in 1880, and served in the state senate from1883 to 1885. In the session of 1883, when a U. was elected, he became the unanimous choiceof the democratic minoritj for that position. Sincethen he has twice refused the democratic nomina-tion for governor, and was a delegate to the demo-cratic national convention of 1892. j\Ir, Orman isenergetic and bold in character, farseeing, and hasexcellent judgment in all business matters. His ac-tivity is untiring, and his capacity for details is 246 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPAEDIA SIZES, Nelson, phrenologist, was born inChester, Hampden county, Mass., May 31, great-grandfather was of Portuguese nationality,having emigrated to America from the island of Ter-ceira, one of the Azores, in 1726, settled in Middle-town, Conn., and married a woman of Scotch de-scent. His neighbors, desiring to make the colonyseem to be English, persuaded those having a foreignprefix to their names to drop it. His name beingAntonio de Sousa, or Souza, when spoken quickly,sounded like de Sizer, so Deacon Rockwell, the as-tute town clerk,
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