John A. Nash

NASH, HEPBURN, RUSSELL

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1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

pages 790-791

JOHN A. NASH, of the law firm of
Nash, Phelps & Green, Audubon, Iowa,
was born in Polk County, Iowa, in the
city of Des Moines, May 9, 1854. He is the
only son of a family of four children of Dr.
J. A. and Mary (Hepburn) Nash. The boy-
hood of John A. Nash was spent in Des
Moines, where he attended the public schools,
after which he entered the University at Des
Moines, from which he was graduated in
1870. Immediately after his graduation he
entered the law office of Brown & Dudley,
prominent attorneys of Des Moines, with
whom he read law for two years; he then
entered the law school of Simpson Centenary
College, and afterward was examined and
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of
Iowa in 1870. He then went to Stuart,
Iowa, where he was employed in the private
office of C. S. Fogg for one year. In June,
1878, Mr. Nash came to Exira, at which
place he built up a good law business; here
he was employed by the Rock Island & Pa-
cific Railroad Company as their attorney to
quiet the titles of lands then owned by the
company in Shelby, Crawford and Audubon
counties. Mr. Nash had formed a partner-
ship with Byron S. Phelps, which continued
until 1882, when Mr. O. K. Holmes was taken
into the firm, this partnership continuing
for two years. In 1886 Mr. Green was taken
into the firm. The business is conducted in
the following way: Mr. Phelps makes all
loans, Mr. Nash attends to the collections,
real-estate and insurance, and Mr. Green
manages the law business of the firm. Mr.
Nash was united in marriage with Miss Ger-
trude Russell, September 1, 1881; she is a
daughter of George S. Russell, a prominent
merchant of Audubon, and a native of
Stoughton, Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Nash
are the parents of two daughters -- Beatrice
and Gretchen. Mr. Nash is a member of the
A. F. & A. M., Godfrey Commandery, No.
44; Audubon Lodge, No. 163, K. of P., and
of the I. O. R. M. He is also a member of
the school board.