WILLIAM NELSON, M. D.
The youngest son of Philip and Jane (Crease) Nelson, and great grandson
of General Thomas Nelson, was born at Mont Air, Hanover county,
Virginia, October 4th, 1854. He graduated at the Virginia Agricultural
and Mechanical College, 1876, and the three subsequent years
served as assistant teacher at the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria.
He was a student of medicine at the University of Virginia, the
session of 1880-1, and in 1882 graduated in the Medical department of
the University of Maryland, Baltimore. After leaving that institution,
he located in Danville, Virginia, where he is actively engaged in the
practice of his profession.
