Children:
Willard Nash
Clarence Nash
Clifford Hiram Nash
Edith Erline Nash
Sibling(s):
Nellie Shannon
Ellen Shannon
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Notes:
Nash, Alfred S., p. o. Willimansett, Mass.. was born in Granby, August 25, 1852, a son of Erastus and Abigail B.
(Grlggs) Nash, who were the parents of ten children, namely: Charles G. (deceased), Harland E., Abigail J., David H. G., Charles E., Harriet N-, Oscar Lorenzo, George A., Clarlcy Emellne, and Alfred S. Erastus Nash, born December 21, 1798, followed farming on the old Nash homestead, the Nash family being the original settlers of the land. Alfred S. Nash was educated in the district school and Wesieyan Academy. When twenty years of age, he became bookkeeper for his brother, Harland E., who was engaged in the wholesale produce business in Holyoke, and was associated with him nineteen years, the latter part of the time as partner. ln 1893 Mr. Nash engaged in the real estate business, being mostly interested in Willimansett property, and for the past eight years has been associated with James H. Newton as agent for his property in Willimansett. taking entire charge of the same. Mr. Nash has been one of the most active men of the town. For seven years he has been a member of the Republican Town Committee, part of the time serving as treasurer; served on the legisiative committee and spent one year in Boston at the time the charter was granted for the Holyoke-Willimansett bridge and was one of the most energetic in securing the consummation of this enterprise; in 1889 was appointed a member of a committee known as the charter committee and went to Boston to procure the charter for the city of Chicopee; he has been actively engaged in the construction of over a hundred houses Id Willimansett and Fairview. aiso many of the public buildings, as well as the electric road between Holyoke and Chicopee and Holyoke and Chicopee Fulis. in 1893 he was appointed a justice of the peace by Governor William E. Russell. On August 3. 1876, he married isadora, daughter of Hirum Shannon, of Windsor. Conn. They have had four children: Willard Foster, Clarence (deceased), Hiram, and Edith Erllne. |
