San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Nash, Shaw 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

SHAW NASH, deceased, one of the honored pioneers of 1853, is the lamented
subject of this brief sketch. He was a lumberman and shipbuilder in Maine, but
in 1853 crossed the water to California, by the way of Panama, and with two of
his sons, E. G. and P. L. Nash, engaged in mining, where the former and eldest
of the two died. Later Mrs. Nash and two younger children came to California to
join the husband and father, and the family then made them a home in Alameda
county, where the youngest, a beautiful girl of fifteen summers, passed away,
and another chair was left vacant. They finally located at Hollister, where the
father and mother both died. Mr. G. S. Nash, the son who came to this country
with the mother still resides in San Benito county, where he is well known and
highly esteemed, as is also his only surviving brother, Mr. P. L. Nash.

  Mr. G. S. Nash was born in Washington county, Maine, April 3, 1842, and
therefore was but eighteen years of age when he made his trip to the great West.
In 1871 he removed to Hollister, and has remained there ever since, carrying on
farming on an extensive scale. He owns one of the finest farms in that vicinity,
consisting of about 100 acres. He also owns 255 acres in the fertile Santa Ana
valley, east of Hollister.

  He married, at his native home, Miss Letitia Cates, a native of Washington
county, Maine, an old schoolmate of his. She is a lady of line domestic tastes
and social culture. Two children still brighten their home, and two are
deceased. Those living are Erastus G. and Carrie A. The entire family are highly
appreciated by their host of friends.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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