Gillum, Henry, 1832-1907

Nixon was born in Ireland in 1781 and settled in Coahuila y Texas in the 1820s, becoming a citizen of Mexico in 1826. He was land commissioner for the Joseph Vehlein, Lorenzo de Zavala, and David G. Burnet empresario grants (which were represented by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company) from July, 1834, to November, 1835, when the land office was closed by the provisional government of Texas. Nixon accumulated large personal holdings of land before his death in 1843.

From the guide to the George Antonio Nixon Collection GA120-130., 1799-1927, 1817-1908, (Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library)

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