Biographies
HAMLIN
NASH
HAMLIN NASH, dealer
in coal, wood, hay and grain at No. 1318, San Pablo avenue, Oakland, was born
in Washington county, Maine, in 1857, a son of Abraham and Sophia (Cates)
Nash. Grandfather Nash, of
H. Nash, our subject,
received the usual district school education in his youth, and helped on his
father’s farm to about the age of sixteen. He then went to sea, making
some trips in the coasting and West India trade, continuing his education
between times for three or four years longer, attending a seminary near
Portland, Maine, for a few terms, and also a business college in that city for
a season. In his seafaring career he was advanced to the position of mate
of a schooner at eighteen, and later became mate of a brig. He continued
in that line to the age of twenty-two and made a voyage from
Mr. Nash was married
in this city, in 1884, to Miss Tenia Brown, born in
1863, and they are the parents of three children: Carl L., born in 1885; Percy
C., in 1887; and Stella J., born in August, 1890.
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