MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL PIONEER AND EARLY MINNESOTA PHARMACIST
Born in Penn Yan, Yates Co. N.Y., son of Hiram and Sarah Beal NASH, George was locally schooled, and apprenticed early as a bookkeeper. After the death of his father, he headed West with his brothers Edgar and "ZEB," along with his widowed mother and sisters, Mandy and Adaline, their spouses and children. The opening of the Western lands was an opportunity for northern New Yorkers. The family went by boat, wagon and paddleboat stopping in Wisconsin before continuing to the Mississippi rivertown of St. Anthony in Minnesota. They had arrived in 1851 , before statehood, when the Minnesota territory was still forming. This family were Minnesota Territorial Pioneers.
In New York George had obtained a contract to represent a Boston wholesale druggist and he planned to be the first to open a medication and drug product store in St. Anthony ---first in the new territory. His small store thrived and soon he opened a larger store in nearby St. Paul -this was also the first store dedicated to medicinal and drug products in St. Paul.
George married first in 1854 at St. Anthony to Hettie Perry and the couple set up housekeeping as new members of the Minnesota Territory. George was active in local politics and as everyone on the frontier with a bit of capital, speculated in real estate. He was elected from St. Paul to serve as Ramsey County Commissioner in 1906 and served for six years. He helped form the first volunteer fire department and St. Paul's Chamber of Commerce.
During the Civil War he joined the 6th Minnesota Regiment as Sutler and spent several years in Missouri and in Southern states. Returning to Minnesota after the war with his brothers, ZEB and Edgar, invested in many new shops and small trade works that were a thriving part of growth in frontier towns and cities. He was the Minnesota Manager of Union Mutual Life Insurance in his later years.
The Nash family lived in a fine house on St. Paul's prestigious Summit Avenue and enjoyed prosperity of Minnesota settlement and development. While they had four children, Sarah, Marion Idell (Bell), Albert, Charles, unfortunately only the two boys survived childhood. Illness and death filled the Nash household, possibly traced to tuberculosis of one of the household staff. Hettie too died in 1869 of the same disease.
George remarried in 1871 to young and charming, Josephine Peironnet of St. Paul. Their only child, young "Willie" (William), also died in 1875.
Then George turned to hobbies of horse breeding and farming on his outstate properties. He and Josephine summered at White Bear Lake, where George tried boating as well. George died in 1912. The family, George, Hettie, Sarah, Bell,and Willie are all buried in the same lot in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul along with George's mother, Sarah Beal NASH.
Born in Penn Yan, Yates Co. N.Y., son of Hiram and Sarah Beal NASH, George was locally schooled, and apprenticed early as a bookkeeper. After the death of his father, he headed West with his brothers Edgar and "ZEB," along with his widowed mother and sisters, Mandy and Adaline, their spouses and children. The opening of the Western lands was an opportunity for northern New Yorkers. The family went by boat, wagon and paddleboat stopping in Wisconsin before continuing to the Mississippi rivertown of St. Anthony in Minnesota. They had arrived in 1851 , before statehood, when the Minnesota territory was still forming. This family were Minnesota Territorial Pioneers.
In New York George had obtained a contract to represent a Boston wholesale druggist and he planned to be the first to open a medication and drug product store in St. Anthony ---first in the new territory. His small store thrived and soon he opened a larger store in nearby St. Paul -this was also the first store dedicated to medicinal and drug products in St. Paul.
George married first in 1854 at St. Anthony to Hettie Perry and the couple set up housekeeping as new members of the Minnesota Territory. George was active in local politics and as everyone on the frontier with a bit of capital, speculated in real estate. He was elected from St. Paul to serve as Ramsey County Commissioner in 1906 and served for six years. He helped form the first volunteer fire department and St. Paul's Chamber of Commerce.
During the Civil War he joined the 6th Minnesota Regiment as Sutler and spent several years in Missouri and in Southern states. Returning to Minnesota after the war with his brothers, ZEB and Edgar, invested in many new shops and small trade works that were a thriving part of growth in frontier towns and cities. He was the Minnesota Manager of Union Mutual Life Insurance in his later years.
The Nash family lived in a fine house on St. Paul's prestigious Summit Avenue and enjoyed prosperity of Minnesota settlement and development. While they had four children, Sarah, Marion Idell (Bell), Albert, Charles, unfortunately only the two boys survived childhood. Illness and death filled the Nash household, possibly traced to tuberculosis of one of the household staff. Hettie too died in 1869 of the same disease.
George remarried in 1871 to young and charming, Josephine Peironnet of St. Paul. Their only child, young "Willie" (William), also died in 1875.
Then George turned to hobbies of horse breeding and farming on his outstate properties. He and Josephine summered at White Bear Lake, where George tried boating as well. George died in 1912. The family, George, Hettie, Sarah, Bell,and Willie are all buried in the same lot in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul along with George's mother, Sarah Beal NASH.
MINNESOTA TERRITORIAL PIONEER AND EARLY MINNESOTA PHARMACIST
Born in Penn Yan, Yates Co. N.Y., son of Hiram and Sarah Beal NASH, George was locally schooled, and apprenticed early as a bookkeeper. After the death of his father, he headed West with his brothers Edgar and "ZEB," along with his widowed mother and sisters, Mandy and Adaline, their spouses and children. The opening of the Western lands was an opportunity for northern New Yorkers. The family went by boat, wagon and paddleboat stopping in Wisconsin before continuing to the Mississippi rivertown of St. Anthony in Minnesota. They had arrived in 1851 , before statehood, when the Minnesota territory was still forming. This family were Minnesota Territorial Pioneers.
In New York George had obtained a contract to represent a Boston wholesale druggist and he planned to be the first to open a medication and drug product store in St. Anthony ---first in the new territory. His small store thrived and soon he opened a larger store in nearby St. Paul -this was also the first store dedicated to medicinal and drug products in St. Paul.
George married first in 1854 at St. Anthony to Hettie Perry and the couple set up housekeeping as new members of the Minnesota Territory. George was active in local politics and as everyone on the frontier with a bit of capital, speculated in real estate. He was elected from St. Paul to serve as Ramsey County Commissioner in 1906 and served for six years. He helped form the first volunteer fire department and St. Paul's Chamber of Commerce.
During the Civil War he joined the 6th Minnesota Regiment as Sutler and spent several years in Missouri and in Southern states. Returning to Minnesota after the war with his brothers, ZEB and Edgar, invested in many new shops and small trade works that were a thriving part of growth in frontier towns and cities. He was the Minnesota Manager of Union Mutual Life Insurance in his later years.
The Nash family lived in a fine house on St. Paul's prestigious Summit Avenue and enjoyed prosperity of Minnesota settlement and development. While they had four children, Sarah, Marion Idell (Bell), Albert, Charles, unfortunately only the two boys survived childhood. Illness and death filled the Nash household, possibly traced to tuberculosis of one of the household staff. Hettie too died in 1869 of the same disease.
George remarried in 1871 to young and charming, Josephine Peironnet of St. Paul. Their only child, young "Willie" (William), also died in 1875.
Then George turned to hobbies of horse breeding and farming on his outstate properties. He and Josephine summered at White Bear Lake, where George tried boating as well. George died in 1912. The family, George, Hettie, Sarah, Bell,and Willie are all buried in the same lot in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul along with George's mother, Sarah Beal NASH.
Born in Penn Yan, Yates Co. N.Y., son of Hiram and Sarah Beal NASH, George was locally schooled, and apprenticed early as a bookkeeper. After the death of his father, he headed West with his brothers Edgar and "ZEB," along with his widowed mother and sisters, Mandy and Adaline, their spouses and children. The opening of the Western lands was an opportunity for northern New Yorkers. The family went by boat, wagon and paddleboat stopping in Wisconsin before continuing to the Mississippi rivertown of St. Anthony in Minnesota. They had arrived in 1851 , before statehood, when the Minnesota territory was still forming. This family were Minnesota Territorial Pioneers.
In New York George had obtained a contract to represent a Boston wholesale druggist and he planned to be the first to open a medication and drug product store in St. Anthony ---first in the new territory. His small store thrived and soon he opened a larger store in nearby St. Paul -this was also the first store dedicated to medicinal and drug products in St. Paul.
George married first in 1854 at St. Anthony to Hettie Perry and the couple set up housekeeping as new members of the Minnesota Territory. George was active in local politics and as everyone on the frontier with a bit of capital, speculated in real estate. He was elected from St. Paul to serve as Ramsey County Commissioner in 1906 and served for six years. He helped form the first volunteer fire department and St. Paul's Chamber of Commerce.
During the Civil War he joined the 6th Minnesota Regiment as Sutler and spent several years in Missouri and in Southern states. Returning to Minnesota after the war with his brothers, ZEB and Edgar, invested in many new shops and small trade works that were a thriving part of growth in frontier towns and cities. He was the Minnesota Manager of Union Mutual Life Insurance in his later years.
The Nash family lived in a fine house on St. Paul's prestigious Summit Avenue and enjoyed prosperity of Minnesota settlement and development. While they had four children, Sarah, Marion Idell (Bell), Albert, Charles, unfortunately only the two boys survived childhood. Illness and death filled the Nash household, possibly traced to tuberculosis of one of the household staff. Hettie too died in 1869 of the same disease.
George remarried in 1871 to young and charming, Josephine Peironnet of St. Paul. Their only child, young "Willie" (William), also died in 1875.
Then George turned to hobbies of horse breeding and farming on his outstate properties. He and Josephine summered at White Bear Lake, where George tried boating as well. George died in 1912. The family, George, Hettie, Sarah, Bell,and Willie are all buried in the same lot in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul along with George's mother, Sarah Beal NASH.
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