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law and practised with great success. He was a representative in the first provincial congress which met in New Berne, Aug. 25, 177-4, and was a delegate to the succeeding provincial congresses in 1775. In February, 1776, he was a member of a committee sent to Charleston to devise measures to unite the southern colonies. He was a member of the council, served on the committee that drew up the state constitution and was the first speaker of the new state senate. He was a representative in the provincial congress which met at Halifax, April 4, 1776, and was ^s===^ speaker of the state senate in

1777 and in 1779. In 1777 Nash county was formed and named in his honor, and Jones county in honor of the maiden name of his wife. He was governor of North Caro- lina, 1779-81. He resigned m as the legislature refused to support him in prosecuting the war, and was suc- ceeded by Thomas Burke. He was a member of the state assembly, 1782-85, and was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1782-86. While on the way to New York to take his seat in congress, he died in Philadelphia. Pa., Dec. 2, 1786.

NASH, Charles Ellwood, educator, was born in Allamuchy, Warren county, N.J., March 31, 1855; son of Charles Pitman and Sarah Ann (Wade) Nash; grandson of Anson and Hester (Huffman) Nash, and of Homer and Julia K. (Reeves) Wade. He was educated in the public schools of Bay City, Mich., and at Curry's acad- emy, Newton, Iowa, and was graduated at Lom- bard university, Galesburg, 111., A.B., 1875. A.M., 1878. He was graduated B.D., from Tufts College Divinity school, Mass., in 1878, and was ordained to the Universalist ministry at Stamford, Conn., June 10, 1878. He was married, December 31, 1878, to Clara Maria, daughter of Nathan Hale Sawtelle of Livermore, Maine. He was pastor at Abington, Mass., 1877-78; at Stamford, Conn., 1878-81; at Newtonville, Mass., 1881-84; at Akron, Oliio, 1884-91, and at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1891-95. He was elected president of Lombard university (now Lombard college), Galesburg. 111., in 1895. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Tufts col- lege in 1891. He contributed to The Colmnbian Congress of the Universalist church in 1893, and to Our Word and Work for missions in 1894, and is the author of: The Saviour of the World (1895).

NASH, Francis, soldier, was born in Prince Edward county, Va., May 10, 1720; brother of Abner Nash (q.v.). He removed with his parents to New Berne, N.C.; was clerk of the superior court of Orange county, and held a captain's com- mission in the British army. He opposed the

Regulators at the battle of Alamance in 1771; was a member of the Provincial congress of North Carolina in August, 1775, and was ap- pointed lieutenant-colonel of the 1st North Carolina regiment. He was promoted briga- dier-general by the Continental congress in February, 1777; commanded a brigade in the bat- tle of Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777, and was mor- tally wounded. Congress voted $500 for a monu- ment to his memory, which was never erected. He died at Germantown, Pa., Oct. 7, 1777.

NASH, Frederick, jurist, was born in New Berne, N.C., Feb. 8, 1781; son of Gov. Abner

and (Jones) Nash, and a nephew of Gen.

Francis Nash (q.v.). He attended school at Wil- liamsboro and New Berne, and was graduated fron\ the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1799, A.M., 1802. He practised law in New Berne: was representative in the state legislature, 1804-05, 1814-15 and 1827-28; judge of the superior court, 1819-44, and was transferred to the supreme court in 1844, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Gaston. He succeeded Judge Ruflfin, resigned, as chief justice of the supreme court, 1852-58, and on his death in 1858, was suc- ceeded by Judge Ruffin, reappointed. The Uni- versity of North Carolina, of which he was a trustee, 1807-57, conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1853. He was married in 1803 to Mary Kollock of Elizabethtown, N. J., and their son, Henry Kollock Nash (University of North Carolina A.B., 1836), was a lawj^er and mem- ber of the general assembly. Judge Frederick Nash died at Hillsborough, N.C., Dec. 4, 1858.

NASH, George Kilburn, governor of Ohio, was born in Medina county, Ohio, Aug. 14. 1842; son of Asa and Electa (Branch) Nash; grandsoni of Capt. Asa Nash, and a descendant of Thomas Nash. He was a student at Oberlin college, 1862- 64; on leaving college entered the army, and then studied law. He removed to Colum- bus, Ohio, in 1865; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1867, and practised law in Columbus. He was cliief clerk in the of- fice of the secretary of state of Ohio, 1869; prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, 1870-74, and attorney-general of the state, 1880-83. He was married in April, 1882, to Ada M. Dishler, widow of W. K. Dishler. He was a member of the state supreme court commission, 1883-85; chairman of the Republican executive committee in 1880, 1881 and 1897; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination as governor of Ohio in 1895, but was nominated in June, 1899. He was elected to the ofiice, Nov. 7, 1899, and rp- elected in 1901, his second term expiring, Janu- ary, 1904.