Androscoggin County ME Archives Biographies.....Nason, Benjamin F. 1818 - 1898
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Author: Everett S. Stackpole

   BENJAMIN F. NASON was born in Windham 13 March, 1818. His father was John,
son of William and Betsey Nason, born in Windham 29 March 1792. His mother was
Lavinia, dau. of Benjamin and Sarah (Libby) Weeks, born in Windham 27 June,
1797. They were married in 1817, and moved to Durham in 1819. John Nason died 30
May, 1872; his wife died 17 May 1879. Benjamin F. Nason was educated in the
public schools of Durham and in private schools taught at S. W. Bend and West
Durham by Joseph Hill, a student from Bowdoin College. He relates that when he
was ten years old a kinsman visited his father's house and gave him, for reading
a sentence from a book, a dollar with which to buy a Grammar and an Arithmetic.
At the age of eighteen he began to teach and continued that profession for
twenty-seven years, or thirty-five terms of school. His salary varied from $12
per month at the beginning to $50 per month at the end. He has received about
$3000 for teaching and has given a full equivalent to his pupils, many of whom
still remember his genial ways and patient efforts for their intellectual
improvement. Mr. Nason has also been supervisor of Schools and one of the
Selectmen. He interested himself in Town History and collected much material for
the present volume.

   He married Frances E. Drinkwater, by whom he had three daughters, only one of
whom, Mrs. Nettie Merrill of Auburn, is now living. He died at Auburn 20 July
1898.


Additional Comments:

Part of Chapter IX.
A FEW OUT OF MANY

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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