Cumberland County, Maine - Daniel F. Nash
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Biography
Daniel F. Nash
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 420-421


Daniel F. Nash, of Portland, who, as a financier, manages large and varied
interests, his private business being trade in stoves, furnaces, heating and
plumbing apparatus, and manufacturing tinware, copper, and sheet iron, was born
in Portland, October 19, 1858. His parents were Daniel W. and Mary Elizabeth
(Smith) Nash, his father being a native of East Raymond, Me., born in December,
1827, his mother of Portland, born in 1833. Daniel W. Nash, who also was a stove
dealer, senior partner of the firm of O. M. & D. W. Nash, a well-known stove
firm of Portland, died in June, 1883. His wife also has passed away. They reared
three children - Ella Frances, wife of Peter S. Nickerson; Carrie Adelaide, wife
of Frank M. Strout; and Daniel F., our subject.

Daniel F. Nash attended the public schools of Portland, graduating from the high
school in 1878. He subsequently took a course of study at the Portland Business
College, and earned his first salary as bookkeeper for O. M. & D. W. Nash, his
uncle and father. After the death of his father the son purchased his interest,
and the business was continued without change of name. In 1891 Mr. O. M. Nash
died; and our subject became sole proprietor of the enterprise, still retaining
the original firm name. The business, which is one of the oldest of its kind in
Portland, has materially increased since Mr. Nash became its manager. He has
added plumbing and steam and hot water apparatus to the stock; and his trade,
which is mainly local, is very extensive. He employs a large number of men, and
occupies five floors of the building at 6 Exchange Street, where he has hardly
room for his increasing business. Mr. Nash is a member of the Merchants'
Exchange of Portland and a stockholder in the following corporations: the
Portland Steam Packet Company, International Steamship Company, Portland
Railroad Company, Portland Water Company, Standish Water and Construction
Company, Underwood Spring Water Company; and he is also a stockholder in the
Merchants' National and First National Banks. He is part or whole owner of
various vessels, including steamboats, schooners, brigs, and barques. In fact,
his interests are so many and various that it seems hardly possible for one man
to attend to them all; but he neglects nothing, and every enterprise with which
he is connected prospers.

In December, 1883, Mr. Nash was married to Miss Flora R. Parker, a native of
Putney, Vt., (laughter of Henry M. Parker; and three children have brightened
their home - Edith Marion, Mabel Frances, and Arthur Freeman.

In politics Mr. Nash is a Republican. He was elected a member of the City
Council in 1894 from Ward 7, and reelected this year, during both terms serving
as a member of the Committee on Finance. He has passed the thirty-second degree
of Masonry, belonging to Portland Lodge, No. 1; Greenleaf Chapter, No. 13; St.
Albans Commandery, No. 8; Portland Council, No. 4; and Maine Consistory, Kora
Temple, N. M. S. He was a charter member of Iona Lodge, No. 21, Order of the
Eastern Star; is Past Noble Grand of Harmony Lodge, No. 19, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, of which he has been a Trustee for a number of years; a member of
the Grand Lodge of Maine; Past Chief Patriarch of Eastern Star Encampment, No.
2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is also a Trustee; a member of
the Grand Encampment of Maine; a charter member of the Grand Canton Ridgely,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and a Director in the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows Relief Association. He was a charter member of the Woodbine Lodge,
Daughters of Rebecca, and of the Royal Society of Good Fellows, of which he is
also a Trustee; is Past Chancellor and Trustee of Pine Tree Lodge, Knights of
Pythias; a member of the Grand Lodge of Maine of the same Order; a charter
member of Samoset Tribe, No. 32, Independent Order of Red Men; and he belongs
also to the Young Men's Christian Association, and to the social organization
known as the Portland Fraternity. Both Mr. and Mrs. Nash attend the Williston
Congregational Church of Portland. Their home, which is at 277 Spring Street, is
one of the handsomest in the city.