Trevanion Barlow Dallas

Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume III page 110

Trevanion Barlow Dallas, manufacturer, was born in Washington, D.C., September 11, 1843; son of Com. Alexander J. and Mary Byrd 'Willis' Dallas. His maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Barlow of the Church of England, was a distinguished astronomer, and his great great grandfather was Sir Nicholas Trevanion of Cornwall.

He was educated principally in Virginia and before the formation of a Confederacy he joined the forces of General Chase in Florida and was with the state troops who took possession of Forts Barrancas and McRae, Pensacola, in 1860. He then enlisted in the Confederate army as a private and was in the command under General Braxton Bragg. He was one of the detail in the bloody night attack on Santa Rosa Island, and afterward served in the battle of Shiloh. He was commissioned lieutenant of artillery, served in the army of Tennessee, principally on staff duty, and surrendered as captain of artillery at Greensboro, N.C. in 1865.

He then visited France as the guest of his aunt, Princess Murat, wife of Prince Achille, eldest son of the King of Naples and Caroline Bonaparte. While in Europe he acted in 1866 as a voluntary aide-de-camp in the Prussian army during the war between Prussia and Austria.

He then engaged in banking in New York City and in Virginia, and in 1869 entered the dry goods business in Nashville, Tennessee.

He afterward became a cotton manufacturer at Nashville, Tennessee, and at Huntsville, Alabama.

He was married, May 11, 1869, to Ella, daughter of Hugh Douglas of Nashville, Tennessee.

Their son, Hugh Douglas Dallas, became assistant treasurer of the Dallas manufacturing company.

Mrs. Dallas died in 1870 and Mr. Dallas was married, January 18, 1876, to Ida, daughter of Dr. M. H. Bonner of Nashville.

In 1899 his cotton mills operated 70,000 spindles and 2200 looms.

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