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HARALSON & NELSON.
    Although young in years, the two members of the firm of Haralson & Nelson,
architects, with offices in the Merchants National Bank building at Fort Smith,
have made a splendid record in their profession. Their patronage is now
extensive and their business has reached most gratifying proportions, many
splendid structures standing as monuments to their skill and ability. J. J.
Haralson was born in Lagrange, Georgia, in the year 1895, and in the acquirement
of his education attended the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, which conferred
upon him the degrees of Bachelor and of Master of Science. Early in his
professional career he was associated with the E. E. Dunlap Company, well-known
architects of Indianapolis, Indiana, and in 1917 came to Fort Smith, where he
has since remained, and through the intervening period has successfully followed
his profession. In 1919 he formed a partnership with Mr. Nelson, and the
association has since been maintained most satisfactorily. At the time of the
World war Mr. Haralson joined the coast artillery, enlisting at San Antonio,
Texas, and winning a commission as second lieutenant.

    E. C. Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 26, 1894, and was a
lad of six summers when his parents removed to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1900. His
professional training was also received in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
His early office training was received while in the employ of the firm of Miller
& Martin, architects of Birmingham, and he was afterward associated with
Frederick Ausfeld, a well-known architect of Montgomery, Alabama. He has
remained in Fort Smith since 1919, at which time he entered into a partnership
with Mr. Haralson. He had also been in the army, having served for about two
years during the period of the World war. The firm of Haralson & Nelson gained
almost immediate recognition by reason of their professional skill and ability,
and they now occupy a most enviable place as architects of the southwest. Both
have been thoroughly trained and have had wide experience for men of their
years, and that they are doing splendid work is evidenced in the many
substantial and beautiful structures which they have erected. They were the
architects of the Arkansas Valley Bank, the store of the W. A. Johnson Clothing
Company, the Presbyterian Sunday school, the Ninth Street Baptist church, also
the Stadium at Fort Smith and the residence of Buckner Williams at Port Smith,
the Masonic Temple of Port Smith and the Tuberculosis Hospital for Fort Smith
District of Sebastian county. They have a thorough understanding of all of the
scientific phases as well as the practical features which underlie their work,
and as the years go by their developing powers are bringing them more and more
into prominence.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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