Bio of Nash, Edward (b.1819) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Nash, Edward, farmer, the subject of this sketch, first saw the light of
day in Kilkenny county, Ireland, in September of the year 1819. His
parents, John and Mary (McGragh) Nash, belonged to the small farmer class.
He remained in his native land until 1850, and received a meager
education; he then came to America. After spending a few months on a farm
near Watertown, New York, he tried life as a lake sailor, until the close
of navigation, for the winter of 1850-1. The following spring he worked in
Ames & Spencer's tannery, near Milwaukee. In June, 1853, he found himself
a miner in the Lake Superior mines, where he remained until 1858, when he
came to Highland, and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres on sections 7
and 18, in Highland township, and section 13, in Oakwood, and in June,
1859, took up his permanent residence in this township. In 1882 he sold
his pioneer farm and purchased a smaller farm of eighty, on section 17,
from A. M. Grarey. He was married August 2, 1875, to Anna Mullins, a
native of Nova Scotia, born February 22, 1847. Her parents afterward
removed to Wisconsin, and in the fall of 1861 she and her twin-brother,
then in their fifteenth year, accompanied by two younger children, came
alone from Portage City, Wisconsin, to Wabasha, driving an ox team. In
politics Mr. Nash is an independent democrat; in religion, a Catholic; has
been supervisor two terms and assessor one. Mr. Nash tells of how he went
to bed one night in the dark of his pioneer bachelor cabin, and found a
bedfellow in the slimy coils of a serpent four feet in length.