As I recall and have been told by family and friends.
The Teer family became prominent in the early 20th century due to the remarkable combination of self-determination and effort of an unusual man named Nello. This is an account of my grandfather, Nello L. Teer, who at the age of nine had to drop out of the third grade to help support his family and, within the short span of the next ten years, would experience the traumatic loss of his right hand, the joy of marrying his sweetheart, the burial of their first child, the founding of what would become a world-class construction company, and the death of his father. (SOFT COVER)