Edward H. Nabb Sr.
CAMBRIDGE - Edward Harwood Nabb, 85, a prominent Cambridge attorney died at his home, Sunday, June 2, 2002.
He was born Dec. 30, 1916 in Cambridge, the son of the late William T. Nabb and Anna M. Nabb.
Mr. Nabb was educated in the Maryland School system. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salisbury State University on May 23, 1999.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. Mr. Nabb enlisted in the Army on May 23, 1941 and was discharged March 23, 1946.
He served in the Army Corps Engineers as a combat engineer and in the Infantry, European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, in grades private through captain. He served 10 months on the Korean front from March 15, 1951 to Sept. 15, 1952 with the Army Corps of Engineers, 116 Engineers Combat Battalion with the grade of captain.
As an enlisted soldier, Mr. Nabb was primarily a weapons instructor. He graduated from the Corps of Engineers Officer Candidate School on Nov. 11, 1942.
As a commissioned officer he was engineer and infantry unit commander, weapons instructor, S2 intelligence, S3 plans and training, all at battalion level. He was a graduate of the Engineer School, the Infantry School, Parachute School and attended Ordinance Bomb Disposal School.
On Dec. 5, 1947 he married the former Winifred D. Harrington. She died July 21, 1981.
Mr. Nabb worked in his early years for Phillips Packing Co., then for the Cambridge store of Sears, Roebuck and Co. before entering the legal profession in 1957.
Mr. Nabb was a senior partner and owner of the law firm of Harrington, Harrington & Nabb, one of the older firms in the state of Maryland. Emerson C. Harrington established the firm in 1894 and his son and Mr. Nabb's father-in-law, Emerson C. Harrington Jr. entered the firm in 1920. He died Jan. 12, 1972. Edward H. Nabb Jr., a partner, joined the firm as an associate in Jan. 1, 1976, the fourth generation.
Mr. Nabb was elected to the Board of Directors of People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank in Cambridge in 1958, serving as secretary of the board and counsel. He remained until the merger with Union Trust Co. of Maryland in 1963.
Mr. Nabb continued as an Advisory Board member and was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of Union Trust Co. in 1972 and held that position until the board was dissolved. The merged name was Signet. He was later on the local Advisory Board of Provident State Bank of Preston.
Mr. Nabb earned his pilot's license in 1939 and took up flying again in 1967. He organized the Annual Tangier Island Holly Run, which continues today.
Mr. Nabb loved boating and had owned sailboats since early childhood. The largest, a 30-foot skipjack, was built at age 18 and he owned the boat until enlisting in the Army at age 24. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1946 Mr. Nabb bought an inboard racing hydroplane named "Black Magic," which he raced for three years.
In 1947 he was elected to the Marine Racing Hall of Fame, one of about 100 living drivers at the time. Mr. Nabb retired from active racing in 1948 and assisted in the administration of the American Power Boat Association Racing on the local, regional and national levels.
He headed many of the national committees and was general counsel for the organization, but never sought elective office.
In 1963, he was elected vice president of Union International Motor Boating, a world governing body of all powerboat events, with 44 member nations and headquarters in Belgium. For a number of years, Mr. Nabb represented the U.S.A. in this organization and then had responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere.
For a number of years Mr. Nabb followed a secondary profession of technical writing. He started writing boating columns for Skipper Magazine in 1948 and 10 years later entered into a long run of monthly columns in Rudder Magazine.
This developed into columns and articles for all of the other national boating publications such as Motor Boating and Sailing, Yachting, Popular Boating, Boat Construction and Maintenance, Speed and Spray and Motorboat. Mr. Nabb had work published in six countries.
The work was primarily on boat propulsion including engines, gears, propellers, etc. Mr. Nabb wrote a book on the subject and annual boating sections for one of the encyclopedia yearbooks. In 1976, he was awarded the Knuth Award, the world's highest award for Boating Technical Writing.
Mr. Nabb served as president of the Nathan Foundation and on the Board of Directors for various charitable organizations.
On Feb. 11, 1982 he married the former Linda M. Kleinwachter. She was the planning director of Dorchester County until 1987.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Nabb is survived by four children: Edward N. (Ned) Nabb Jr. and his wife, Betty of Cambridge, Winifred (Winnie) Nabb Sewell of Annapolis, Andrew W. (Drew) Nabb and Ian Nathan Nabb, both of Cambridge and grandchild, Meredith Harrington Nabb of Annapolis.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Thursday at the Curran-Bromwell Funeral Home, P.A. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Grace United Methodist Church in Cambridge with the Rev. Douglas Ridley officiating. Burial will follow in Christ Church Graveyard.
Pallbearers will be Christopher R. Robinson, William H. Kleinwachter, David W. Nickerson, Carlton Gray Nabb, George B. Nabb III and T. Sewell Hubbert.
Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy J. Creighton, Russell S. Baker Jr., Hon. Donald F. Johnson, Edward C. Conway and J. Edward Powell.
In lieu of flowers, memorial offerings may be made to the Dorchester Skipjack Committee, 526 Poplar St., Cambridge, MD 21613; Nabb Research Center, 101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 or Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733.
CAMBRIDGE - Edward Harwood Nabb, 85, a prominent Cambridge attorney died at his home, Sunday, June 2, 2002.
He was born Dec. 30, 1916 in Cambridge, the son of the late William T. Nabb and Anna M. Nabb.
Mr. Nabb was educated in the Maryland School system. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salisbury State University on May 23, 1999.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. Mr. Nabb enlisted in the Army on May 23, 1941 and was discharged March 23, 1946.
He served in the Army Corps Engineers as a combat engineer and in the Infantry, European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, in grades private through captain. He served 10 months on the Korean front from March 15, 1951 to Sept. 15, 1952 with the Army Corps of Engineers, 116 Engineers Combat Battalion with the grade of captain.
As an enlisted soldier, Mr. Nabb was primarily a weapons instructor. He graduated from the Corps of Engineers Officer Candidate School on Nov. 11, 1942.
As a commissioned officer he was engineer and infantry unit commander, weapons instructor, S2 intelligence, S3 plans and training, all at battalion level. He was a graduate of the Engineer School, the Infantry School, Parachute School and attended Ordinance Bomb Disposal School.
On Dec. 5, 1947 he married the former Winifred D. Harrington. She died July 21, 1981.
Mr. Nabb worked in his early years for Phillips Packing Co., then for the Cambridge store of Sears, Roebuck and Co. before entering the legal profession in 1957.
Mr. Nabb was a senior partner and owner of the law firm of Harrington, Harrington & Nabb, one of the older firms in the state of Maryland. Emerson C. Harrington established the firm in 1894 and his son and Mr. Nabb's father-in-law, Emerson C. Harrington Jr. entered the firm in 1920. He died Jan. 12, 1972. Edward H. Nabb Jr., a partner, joined the firm as an associate in Jan. 1, 1976, the fourth generation.
Mr. Nabb was elected to the Board of Directors of People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank in Cambridge in 1958, serving as secretary of the board and counsel. He remained until the merger with Union Trust Co. of Maryland in 1963.
Mr. Nabb continued as an Advisory Board member and was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of Union Trust Co. in 1972 and held that position until the board was dissolved. The merged name was Signet. He was later on the local Advisory Board of Provident State Bank of Preston.
Mr. Nabb earned his pilot's license in 1939 and took up flying again in 1967. He organized the Annual Tangier Island Holly Run, which continues today.
Mr. Nabb loved boating and had owned sailboats since early childhood. The largest, a 30-foot skipjack, was built at age 18 and he owned the boat until enlisting in the Army at age 24. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1946 Mr. Nabb bought an inboard racing hydroplane named "Black Magic," which he raced for three years.
In 1947 he was elected to the Marine Racing Hall of Fame, one of about 100 living drivers at the time. Mr. Nabb retired from active racing in 1948 and assisted in the administration of the American Power Boat Association Racing on the local, regional and national levels.
He headed many of the national committees and was general counsel for the organization, but never sought elective office.
In 1963, he was elected vice president of Union International Motor Boating, a world governing body of all powerboat events, with 44 member nations and headquarters in Belgium. For a number of years, Mr. Nabb represented the U.S.A. in this organization and then had responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere.
For a number of years Mr. Nabb followed a secondary profession of technical writing. He started writing boating columns for Skipper Magazine in 1948 and 10 years later entered into a long run of monthly columns in Rudder Magazine.
This developed into columns and articles for all of the other national boating publications such as Motor Boating and Sailing, Yachting, Popular Boating, Boat Construction and Maintenance, Speed and Spray and Motorboat. Mr. Nabb had work published in six countries.
The work was primarily on boat propulsion including engines, gears, propellers, etc. Mr. Nabb wrote a book on the subject and annual boating sections for one of the encyclopedia yearbooks. In 1976, he was awarded the Knuth Award, the world's highest award for Boating Technical Writing.
Mr. Nabb served as president of the Nathan Foundation and on the Board of Directors for various charitable organizations.
On Feb. 11, 1982 he married the former Linda M. Kleinwachter. She was the planning director of Dorchester County until 1987.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Nabb is survived by four children: Edward N. (Ned) Nabb Jr. and his wife, Betty of Cambridge, Winifred (Winnie) Nabb Sewell of Annapolis, Andrew W. (Drew) Nabb and Ian Nathan Nabb, both of Cambridge and grandchild, Meredith Harrington Nabb of Annapolis.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Thursday at the Curran-Bromwell Funeral Home, P.A. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Grace United Methodist Church in Cambridge with the Rev. Douglas Ridley officiating. Burial will follow in Christ Church Graveyard.
Pallbearers will be Christopher R. Robinson, William H. Kleinwachter, David W. Nickerson, Carlton Gray Nabb, George B. Nabb III and T. Sewell Hubbert.
Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy J. Creighton, Russell S. Baker Jr., Hon. Donald F. Johnson, Edward C. Conway and J. Edward Powell.
In lieu of flowers, memorial offerings may be made to the Dorchester Skipjack Committee, 526 Poplar St., Cambridge, MD 21613; Nabb Research Center, 101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 or Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733.
Edward H. Nabb Sr.
CAMBRIDGE - Edward Harwood Nabb, 85, a prominent Cambridge attorney died at his home, Sunday, June 2, 2002.
He was born Dec. 30, 1916 in Cambridge, the son of the late William T. Nabb and Anna M. Nabb.
Mr. Nabb was educated in the Maryland School system. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salisbury State University on May 23, 1999.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. Mr. Nabb enlisted in the Army on May 23, 1941 and was discharged March 23, 1946.
He served in the Army Corps Engineers as a combat engineer and in the Infantry, European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, in grades private through captain. He served 10 months on the Korean front from March 15, 1951 to Sept. 15, 1952 with the Army Corps of Engineers, 116 Engineers Combat Battalion with the grade of captain.
As an enlisted soldier, Mr. Nabb was primarily a weapons instructor. He graduated from the Corps of Engineers Officer Candidate School on Nov. 11, 1942.
As a commissioned officer he was engineer and infantry unit commander, weapons instructor, S2 intelligence, S3 plans and training, all at battalion level. He was a graduate of the Engineer School, the Infantry School, Parachute School and attended Ordinance Bomb Disposal School.
On Dec. 5, 1947 he married the former Winifred D. Harrington. She died July 21, 1981.
Mr. Nabb worked in his early years for Phillips Packing Co., then for the Cambridge store of Sears, Roebuck and Co. before entering the legal profession in 1957.
Mr. Nabb was a senior partner and owner of the law firm of Harrington, Harrington & Nabb, one of the older firms in the state of Maryland. Emerson C. Harrington established the firm in 1894 and his son and Mr. Nabb's father-in-law, Emerson C. Harrington Jr. entered the firm in 1920. He died Jan. 12, 1972. Edward H. Nabb Jr., a partner, joined the firm as an associate in Jan. 1, 1976, the fourth generation.
Mr. Nabb was elected to the Board of Directors of People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank in Cambridge in 1958, serving as secretary of the board and counsel. He remained until the merger with Union Trust Co. of Maryland in 1963.
Mr. Nabb continued as an Advisory Board member and was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of Union Trust Co. in 1972 and held that position until the board was dissolved. The merged name was Signet. He was later on the local Advisory Board of Provident State Bank of Preston.
Mr. Nabb earned his pilot's license in 1939 and took up flying again in 1967. He organized the Annual Tangier Island Holly Run, which continues today.
Mr. Nabb loved boating and had owned sailboats since early childhood. The largest, a 30-foot skipjack, was built at age 18 and he owned the boat until enlisting in the Army at age 24. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1946 Mr. Nabb bought an inboard racing hydroplane named "Black Magic," which he raced for three years.
In 1947 he was elected to the Marine Racing Hall of Fame, one of about 100 living drivers at the time. Mr. Nabb retired from active racing in 1948 and assisted in the administration of the American Power Boat Association Racing on the local, regional and national levels.
He headed many of the national committees and was general counsel for the organization, but never sought elective office.
In 1963, he was elected vice president of Union International Motor Boating, a world governing body of all powerboat events, with 44 member nations and headquarters in Belgium. For a number of years, Mr. Nabb represented the U.S.A. in this organization and then had responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere.
For a number of years Mr. Nabb followed a secondary profession of technical writing. He started writing boating columns for Skipper Magazine in 1948 and 10 years later entered into a long run of monthly columns in Rudder Magazine.
This developed into columns and articles for all of the other national boating publications such as Motor Boating and Sailing, Yachting, Popular Boating, Boat Construction and Maintenance, Speed and Spray and Motorboat. Mr. Nabb had work published in six countries.
The work was primarily on boat propulsion including engines, gears, propellers, etc. Mr. Nabb wrote a book on the subject and annual boating sections for one of the encyclopedia yearbooks. In 1976, he was awarded the Knuth Award, the world's highest award for Boating Technical Writing.
Mr. Nabb served as president of the Nathan Foundation and on the Board of Directors for various charitable organizations.
On Feb. 11, 1982 he married the former Linda M. Kleinwachter. She was the planning director of Dorchester County until 1987.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Nabb is survived by four children: Edward N. (Ned) Nabb Jr. and his wife, Betty of Cambridge, Winifred (Winnie) Nabb Sewell of Annapolis, Andrew W. (Drew) Nabb and Ian Nathan Nabb, both of Cambridge and grandchild, Meredith Harrington Nabb of Annapolis.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Thursday at the Curran-Bromwell Funeral Home, P.A. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Grace United Methodist Church in Cambridge with the Rev. Douglas Ridley officiating. Burial will follow in Christ Church Graveyard.
Pallbearers will be Christopher R. Robinson, William H. Kleinwachter, David W. Nickerson, Carlton Gray Nabb, George B. Nabb III and T. Sewell Hubbert.
Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy J. Creighton, Russell S. Baker Jr., Hon. Donald F. Johnson, Edward C. Conway and J. Edward Powell.
In lieu of flowers, memorial offerings may be made to the Dorchester Skipjack Committee, 526 Poplar St., Cambridge, MD 21613; Nabb Research Center, 101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 or Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733.
CAMBRIDGE - Edward Harwood Nabb, 85, a prominent Cambridge attorney died at his home, Sunday, June 2, 2002.
He was born Dec. 30, 1916 in Cambridge, the son of the late William T. Nabb and Anna M. Nabb.
Mr. Nabb was educated in the Maryland School system. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Salisbury State University on May 23, 1999.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. Mr. Nabb enlisted in the Army on May 23, 1941 and was discharged March 23, 1946.
He served in the Army Corps Engineers as a combat engineer and in the Infantry, European Theatre, Pacific Theatre, in grades private through captain. He served 10 months on the Korean front from March 15, 1951 to Sept. 15, 1952 with the Army Corps of Engineers, 116 Engineers Combat Battalion with the grade of captain.
As an enlisted soldier, Mr. Nabb was primarily a weapons instructor. He graduated from the Corps of Engineers Officer Candidate School on Nov. 11, 1942.
As a commissioned officer he was engineer and infantry unit commander, weapons instructor, S2 intelligence, S3 plans and training, all at battalion level. He was a graduate of the Engineer School, the Infantry School, Parachute School and attended Ordinance Bomb Disposal School.
On Dec. 5, 1947 he married the former Winifred D. Harrington. She died July 21, 1981.
Mr. Nabb worked in his early years for Phillips Packing Co., then for the Cambridge store of Sears, Roebuck and Co. before entering the legal profession in 1957.
Mr. Nabb was a senior partner and owner of the law firm of Harrington, Harrington & Nabb, one of the older firms in the state of Maryland. Emerson C. Harrington established the firm in 1894 and his son and Mr. Nabb's father-in-law, Emerson C. Harrington Jr. entered the firm in 1920. He died Jan. 12, 1972. Edward H. Nabb Jr., a partner, joined the firm as an associate in Jan. 1, 1976, the fourth generation.
Mr. Nabb was elected to the Board of Directors of People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank in Cambridge in 1958, serving as secretary of the board and counsel. He remained until the merger with Union Trust Co. of Maryland in 1963.
Mr. Nabb continued as an Advisory Board member and was elected Chairman of the Advisory Board of Union Trust Co. in 1972 and held that position until the board was dissolved. The merged name was Signet. He was later on the local Advisory Board of Provident State Bank of Preston.
Mr. Nabb earned his pilot's license in 1939 and took up flying again in 1967. He organized the Annual Tangier Island Holly Run, which continues today.
Mr. Nabb loved boating and had owned sailboats since early childhood. The largest, a 30-foot skipjack, was built at age 18 and he owned the boat until enlisting in the Army at age 24. Upon his discharge from the Army in 1946 Mr. Nabb bought an inboard racing hydroplane named "Black Magic," which he raced for three years.
In 1947 he was elected to the Marine Racing Hall of Fame, one of about 100 living drivers at the time. Mr. Nabb retired from active racing in 1948 and assisted in the administration of the American Power Boat Association Racing on the local, regional and national levels.
He headed many of the national committees and was general counsel for the organization, but never sought elective office.
In 1963, he was elected vice president of Union International Motor Boating, a world governing body of all powerboat events, with 44 member nations and headquarters in Belgium. For a number of years, Mr. Nabb represented the U.S.A. in this organization and then had responsibility for the entire Western Hemisphere.
For a number of years Mr. Nabb followed a secondary profession of technical writing. He started writing boating columns for Skipper Magazine in 1948 and 10 years later entered into a long run of monthly columns in Rudder Magazine.
This developed into columns and articles for all of the other national boating publications such as Motor Boating and Sailing, Yachting, Popular Boating, Boat Construction and Maintenance, Speed and Spray and Motorboat. Mr. Nabb had work published in six countries.
The work was primarily on boat propulsion including engines, gears, propellers, etc. Mr. Nabb wrote a book on the subject and annual boating sections for one of the encyclopedia yearbooks. In 1976, he was awarded the Knuth Award, the world's highest award for Boating Technical Writing.
Mr. Nabb served as president of the Nathan Foundation and on the Board of Directors for various charitable organizations.
On Feb. 11, 1982 he married the former Linda M. Kleinwachter. She was the planning director of Dorchester County until 1987.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Nabb is survived by four children: Edward N. (Ned) Nabb Jr. and his wife, Betty of Cambridge, Winifred (Winnie) Nabb Sewell of Annapolis, Andrew W. (Drew) Nabb and Ian Nathan Nabb, both of Cambridge and grandchild, Meredith Harrington Nabb of Annapolis.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 Thursday at the Curran-Bromwell Funeral Home, P.A. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Grace United Methodist Church in Cambridge with the Rev. Douglas Ridley officiating. Burial will follow in Christ Church Graveyard.
Pallbearers will be Christopher R. Robinson, William H. Kleinwachter, David W. Nickerson, Carlton Gray Nabb, George B. Nabb III and T. Sewell Hubbert.
Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy J. Creighton, Russell S. Baker Jr., Hon. Donald F. Johnson, Edward C. Conway and J. Edward Powell.
In lieu of flowers, memorial offerings may be made to the Dorchester Skipjack Committee, 526 Poplar St., Cambridge, MD 21613; Nabb Research Center, 101 Camden Ave., Salisbury, MD 21801-6860 or Coastal Hospice, P.O. Box 1733, Salisbury, MD 21802-1733.
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