STATE LEGISLATOR,EARLY MINNESOTA BUSINESSMAN
Born in Penn Yan Yates Co., New York, grandson of Revolutionary War Soldier, Silas Nash, Edgar came West with his widowed mother, Sarah Beal Nash and siblings- after the untimely death of his father Hiram Nash. The family arrived in St. Anthony in 1851, after a long trip from New York state, by wagon, sidewheeler paddleboat and ox cart. At the age of 19, Edgar was a Territorial Pioneer. He started to work in St. Anthony as a shop clerk, supplementing family funds; "clever with numbers," he was soon apprenticed as a Clerk and then he opened St. Anthony's first hardware store. He became agent for several lines of hardware, tools and stoves- all items in high demand by settlers in the growing settlements of the West. His second store is pictured in the 1874 Minneapolis A.T.Andreas Atlas as a three-story brick building at the corner of Washington Ave and Second Street in Minneapolis. His business flourished and he opened a shop in Duluth in 1869 and then another in Rochester.
In 1870 Edgar moved to Duluth, MN and was soon elected to its first City Council (Ward 2).He was a founding member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1871 he was elected to the Minnesota Legislature representing District 29, St. Louis, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Lake counties (District 29); he held this office two terms. Returning to Minneapolis, he turned the Duluth store over to his nephew, Walter VanBrunt. Edgar next turned to land development and insurance activity, representing several Massachusetts and Connecticut firms, underwriting developing businesses as far away as Montana and Dakotas as Western settlement expanded.
An active Templar, Mason and Scottish Rite member, he was known to be gregarious and well-liked in the frontier community. He married Virginia Bartholomew, the daughter of prominent political figure, Gen. Riley L. Bartholomew in Richfield, 19 June 1855. Edgar and Virginia had four children, all of whom settled in Minneapolis: Alice "Nellie," Fred E.,Carrie I., Virginia Belle. Edgar died at home in 1915 at age 83. He was honored with a Masonic funeral.
Born in Penn Yan Yates Co., New York, grandson of Revolutionary War Soldier, Silas Nash, Edgar came West with his widowed mother, Sarah Beal Nash and siblings- after the untimely death of his father Hiram Nash. The family arrived in St. Anthony in 1851, after a long trip from New York state, by wagon, sidewheeler paddleboat and ox cart. At the age of 19, Edgar was a Territorial Pioneer. He started to work in St. Anthony as a shop clerk, supplementing family funds; "clever with numbers," he was soon apprenticed as a Clerk and then he opened St. Anthony's first hardware store. He became agent for several lines of hardware, tools and stoves- all items in high demand by settlers in the growing settlements of the West. His second store is pictured in the 1874 Minneapolis A.T.Andreas Atlas as a three-story brick building at the corner of Washington Ave and Second Street in Minneapolis. His business flourished and he opened a shop in Duluth in 1869 and then another in Rochester.
In 1870 Edgar moved to Duluth, MN and was soon elected to its first City Council (Ward 2).He was a founding member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1871 he was elected to the Minnesota Legislature representing District 29, St. Louis, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Lake counties (District 29); he held this office two terms. Returning to Minneapolis, he turned the Duluth store over to his nephew, Walter VanBrunt. Edgar next turned to land development and insurance activity, representing several Massachusetts and Connecticut firms, underwriting developing businesses as far away as Montana and Dakotas as Western settlement expanded.
An active Templar, Mason and Scottish Rite member, he was known to be gregarious and well-liked in the frontier community. He married Virginia Bartholomew, the daughter of prominent political figure, Gen. Riley L. Bartholomew in Richfield, 19 June 1855. Edgar and Virginia had four children, all of whom settled in Minneapolis: Alice "Nellie," Fred E.,Carrie I., Virginia Belle. Edgar died at home in 1915 at age 83. He was honored with a Masonic funeral.
STATE LEGISLATOR,EARLY MINNESOTA BUSINESSMAN
Born in Penn Yan Yates Co., New York, grandson of Revolutionary War Soldier, Silas Nash, Edgar came West with his widowed mother, Sarah Beal Nash and siblings- after the untimely death of his father Hiram Nash. The family arrived in St. Anthony in 1851, after a long trip from New York state, by wagon, sidewheeler paddleboat and ox cart. At the age of 19, Edgar was a Territorial Pioneer. He started to work in St. Anthony as a shop clerk, supplementing family funds; "clever with numbers," he was soon apprenticed as a Clerk and then he opened St. Anthony's first hardware store. He became agent for several lines of hardware, tools and stoves- all items in high demand by settlers in the growing settlements of the West. His second store is pictured in the 1874 Minneapolis A.T.Andreas Atlas as a three-story brick building at the corner of Washington Ave and Second Street in Minneapolis. His business flourished and he opened a shop in Duluth in 1869 and then another in Rochester.
In 1870 Edgar moved to Duluth, MN and was soon elected to its first City Council (Ward 2).He was a founding member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1871 he was elected to the Minnesota Legislature representing District 29, St. Louis, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Lake counties (District 29); he held this office two terms. Returning to Minneapolis, he turned the Duluth store over to his nephew, Walter VanBrunt. Edgar next turned to land development and insurance activity, representing several Massachusetts and Connecticut firms, underwriting developing businesses as far away as Montana and Dakotas as Western settlement expanded.
An active Templar, Mason and Scottish Rite member, he was known to be gregarious and well-liked in the frontier community. He married Virginia Bartholomew, the daughter of prominent political figure, Gen. Riley L. Bartholomew in Richfield, 19 June 1855. Edgar and Virginia had four children, all of whom settled in Minneapolis: Alice "Nellie," Fred E.,Carrie I., Virginia Belle. Edgar died at home in 1915 at age 83. He was honored with a Masonic funeral.
Born in Penn Yan Yates Co., New York, grandson of Revolutionary War Soldier, Silas Nash, Edgar came West with his widowed mother, Sarah Beal Nash and siblings- after the untimely death of his father Hiram Nash. The family arrived in St. Anthony in 1851, after a long trip from New York state, by wagon, sidewheeler paddleboat and ox cart. At the age of 19, Edgar was a Territorial Pioneer. He started to work in St. Anthony as a shop clerk, supplementing family funds; "clever with numbers," he was soon apprenticed as a Clerk and then he opened St. Anthony's first hardware store. He became agent for several lines of hardware, tools and stoves- all items in high demand by settlers in the growing settlements of the West. His second store is pictured in the 1874 Minneapolis A.T.Andreas Atlas as a three-story brick building at the corner of Washington Ave and Second Street in Minneapolis. His business flourished and he opened a shop in Duluth in 1869 and then another in Rochester.
In 1870 Edgar moved to Duluth, MN and was soon elected to its first City Council (Ward 2).He was a founding member of the Duluth Chamber of Commerce. In 1871 he was elected to the Minnesota Legislature representing District 29, St. Louis, Carlton, Cass, Itasca, Lake counties (District 29); he held this office two terms. Returning to Minneapolis, he turned the Duluth store over to his nephew, Walter VanBrunt. Edgar next turned to land development and insurance activity, representing several Massachusetts and Connecticut firms, underwriting developing businesses as far away as Montana and Dakotas as Western settlement expanded.
An active Templar, Mason and Scottish Rite member, he was known to be gregarious and well-liked in the frontier community. He married Virginia Bartholomew, the daughter of prominent political figure, Gen. Riley L. Bartholomew in Richfield, 19 June 1855. Edgar and Virginia had four children, all of whom settled in Minneapolis: Alice "Nellie," Fred E.,Carrie I., Virginia Belle. Edgar died at home in 1915 at age 83. He was honored with a Masonic funeral.
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