Bio of NASH, William M. (b.1883), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 301-302
WILLIAM M. NASH.
William M. Nash, senior partner of the law firm of Nash & Nichols, devoting his
attention to general practice with marked success, was born in this city
September 4, 1883, and is a son of John P. and Annie E. (Jones) Nash, who were
pioneer residents of Minneapolis. The father was born in Lawrenceville,
Pennsylvania, July 1, 1855, his parents being John and Ann (Casey) Nash, who
arrived in Minnesota during the '50s. They took up their abode in Minneapolis,
but Indian attacks soon drove them out of the settlement with other early
pioneers of the district. Subsequently they walked to Litchfield, Minnesota,
where they secured one hundred and sixty acres of government land, but following
the abatement of the Indian trouble they returned to Minneapolis and conducted a
boarding house on the site of the Union depot. This property was sold to the
Manitoba Railroad in 1881 by the mother, the father having died the previous
year, while Mrs. Ann (Casey) Nash survived until 1881. Their son, John P. Nash,
was reared on the western frontier, for he was quite a young lad when the family
came to Minnesota. He held membership in the Immaculate Conception church and
early joined the band which bore that name and which was the first musical
organization of the city. His political allegiance was given to the democratic
party in young manhood, and he was at one time a candidate for the office of
county commissioner, while at the time of his death he was in charge of the
registry department at the post office.
Mr. Nash was united in marriage to Annie E. Jones, who was well known for her
charitable activities and her work in behalf of the Catholic church in
Minneapolis. The death of Mr. Nash occurred December 13, 1883, when he was but
twenty-eight years of age, while his wife reached the age of fifty-three years.
She was survived by two sons: William M. and John P., but the latter passed away
in 1922. Further mention of him is made on another page of this work.
The surviving son, William M. Nash, reared in his native city, pursued a public
school education, passing through consecutive grades until graduated from the
Central high school with the class of 1900. His desire to enter upon a
professional career at length centered in law practice and he began preparation
for the bar as a student in the law office of Judge John H. Steele, while later
he registered as a law student in the University of Minnesota and was admitted
to the bar on the 10th of February, 1904. Immediately afterward he entered upon
active practice in connection with Judge Steele, with whom he was thus
associated until the latter was elected to the district court bench, at which
time Mr. Nash formed a partnership with his brother under the firm name of J. P.
& W. M. Nash, an association that was continued until the 1st of August, 1908,
when W. M. Nash was appointed assistant county attorney under the late Al J.
Smith, with whom he remained until the death of Mr. Smith, on the 3d of
November, 1910. He continued in the office under John M. Rees and afterward
under James Robertson until the 1st of September, 1912, thus continuing to act
as assistant county attorney for four years and one month. With his retirement
from the office he entered upon the general practice of law, but in 1919 was
recalled to the county attorney's office, being elected to the position of
county attorney for a period of two years. In 1921 he had admitted Chester L.
Nichols to a partnership under the firm style of Nash & Nichols and this
relationship is still maintained, although in the meantime he had again for a
period been engaged in practice as a partner of his brother, John P. Nash. He
has long enjoyed a large practice of an important character and has been very
successful in its conduct, for he has always prepared his cases with great
thoroughness and care and is seldom, if ever, at fault in the application of a
legal principle to the point in litigation.
Mr. Nash was married on August 18, 1915, to Miss Alice M. Mahla of Minneapolis.
Of the Catholic faith, Mr. Nash is a communicant of the Church of the
Incarnation parish. He belongs also to Hennepin council of the Knights of
Columbus and is a life member of Minneapolis Lodge, No. 44, B. P. O. E. He is
likewise a member of the Minneapolis Civic & Commerce Association and is
interested in all that has to do with the general welfare. Through the World war
period he served on the draft advisory board for the third ward and at all times
he is a public-spirited citizen, whose devotion to the general good is manifest
in many tangible ways His social qualities make for popularity wherever he is
known and his circle of friends is an extensive one.