BIOGRAPHY: George R. Nash, Weedsport, Cayuga co., New York

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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING CITIZENS OF CAYUGA
COUNTY NEW YORK
BOSTON
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
1894

GEORGE R. NASH is a man who has made himself well known and popular through
the columns of his well-conducted and enterprising paper, the Weedsport
Sentinel, of which he is editor and proprietor. Mr. Nash is a descendant of
English ancestors, and son of George and Charlotte Maria (Cordelle) Nash.
The elder George was a native of Buckinghamshire, England, where he was born
in 1790. He was a carpenter, architect, and contractor, and in 1832 came
from England with his wife and settled in Albany, N.Y., where he engaged in
business and put up many important buildings.

 Before coming to America Mr. Nash had been married in England to Rachel
Whitman. She died in Albany, and left five children. One son, George, Jr.,
died at the age of seven years. The other children are as follows: Sarah,
and Jesse, and John H. Nash, of Albany, whose son, Willis G., is the
Cashier of the State Bank, which is in the oldest bank building in America 
and Lydia, who married Oran Ott, for many years the purchasing agent of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company in Chicago, Ill. In 1832, in Albany, Mr.
Nash married Charlotte Maria Cordelle, of Kunttesshall, Suffolk County,
England. The Cordelle family originally came from French Flanders, and is
well known in England; but there are only two families of that name in this
country. George R. was the only child of this second marriage. Mr. Nash died
in Albany in 1873, and his wife's death occurred in the same city.

 George R. Nash received an excellent education in the public schools of
Albany, and then worked in the printing-ofrice of Weed, Parsons & Co. In
1872 he came to Weeds-port and bought the Sentinel, which had been
established since  1860, and was a four-page folio paper. It has a large
circulation through the northern part of Cayuga County. Mr. Nash is a stanch
Republican; and his paper reflects the principles and views of its editor,
being a strong organ for that party in this county. The county agency of the
Eastern Building & Loan Association, of Syracuse, N.Y., is in the hands of
Mr, Nash, and he has made the undertaking successful far beyond the
expectations of its projectors, having established it on so firm and
reliable a basis, that he has secured a large amount of business.

 The wife of Mr. Nash was Ida L. Rogers, of Verona, Oneida County,
N.Y.They were married July 2, 1873, and have two children, Reva
Cordelle and
Edna R.

 Mr. Nash holds an important position in the life of the town of Weedsport.
He is an active worker for the Republican party, and does much toward
furthering the interests of that party when he considers those interests to
be also for the general good of the town. Through the columns of his paper
he is able not only to spread to a large territory the news of the county,
State, and nation, but he succeeds in arousing in the minds of the many
readers of. his pages a spirit of patriotism and fellowship, and a wish for
the constant improvement of social conditions. Through his influence and
that of his paper many projects for the better management and control of the
public interests have been suggested and carried out. He has a wide field of
work before him, and the strength and ability already shown in his
enterprises have won him prestige for his future undertakings.