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Source: Vol. II  pg.136-137  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        EDWARD A. NOLAN in the profession of architect has had an important 
share in influencing Miami’s wonderful building program during the past decade.
The numerous examples of his work in the city and vicinity prove his mastery of
the elements involved in an appropriate and harmonious combination of building
with the conditions peculiar to Southern Florida, and his work has been greatly
admired.
	Mr. Nolan was born at Elkton in Giles County, Tennessee, in 1874. In
1882 his parents came to Florida, locating at Bartow in Polk County. He was
therefore reared and educated in this state and remained here until 1898.
	Early in that year he enlisted in the Regular Army at the time of the 
Spanish-American war. He left Tampa direct for San Juan, Porto Rico (sic), as a 
courier on the headquarters staff of General Miles. He was present at the time 
of the bombardment of San Juan and the surrender of the island to the American 
forces by the Spanish Governor. Following the close of the war he remained in 
San Juan in the Regular Army service until 1901, being attached to the chief 
quartermaster’s office.
	After his four years of army life Mr. Nolan began his civilian career
in Indianapolis, and in 1902 removed to Chicago, where he finished his
architectural education in the Chicago Technical School. Leaving that city, he
went to Omaha and later to Wisconsin.
	After a varied experience in the building trades in the far West, Mr. 
Nolan in 1912 located at Miami, and has since been continuously engaged in the 
practice of architecture. He has made a thorough study of the adaptation of the 
Spanish features of architecture to buildings in this location and climate. He 
has been architect and superintendent of construction for many of the 
handsomest and most prominent buildings in Miami. To mention only a few of the 
examples of his work would include the Gallat Court Apartments, Johnson 
Apartments, the Commodore Kotcher residence on Belle Isle, Hotel Pershing and
the Martin Hotel.
	Mr. Nolan married at Indianapolis Miss MARGARET FLEMING. She is a
native of Belfast, Ireland. Their interesting family of five children are:
CHARLES, ROBERT, EUNICE, NELLIE and EDNA.
	At the time of the World war the son, Charles, proved possessed of no 
less soldierly qualities than those of his father. He was, in fact, one of the 
youngest Americans in the war. At the age of seventeen he volunteered as a 
private in the Fifth Engineers, was trained at Savannah, Georgia, and Corpus 
Christi, Texas, and from the latter place went overseas with the Fifth 
Engineers. His duties with this organization were in the vicinity of Metz. 
Altogether he was in the service twenty-two months, and he returned to the
United States on the George Washington with President Wilson and party.


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