OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES: 1879 1889 1903 1911 1930 BIOGRAPHIES Source: HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS by H. W. Beckwith Publ. Chicago:  H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers 1879 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z   Elwood Twp. - W. R. NASH, Ridge Farm, physician, was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, on the 12th of May 1841.  His father died when he was but five years old, and his mother, when he was twelve years of age.  He followed the occupation of a farmer until the war broke out, when he enlisted on the 1st of June, 1861, in Co. D, 25th Ill. Vol. Inf., as private, and served three years.  He was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Nashville, and then the one steady fight from Chattanooga to Atlanta, he receiving in all these but a flesh-wound.  Soon after the close of the war he commenced the study of medicine: first, under P. T. Cellers, for two years, and then he attended the Surgical Institute at Indianapolis for two years, and afterward, several different courses of lectures at different colleges.  He graduated on the 27th of February, 1877, received a diploma for practicing medicine, and came to the "Ridge" on the 1st of April, 1877, where he has been practicing since.  Mr. Nash has been practicing at intervals for several years, meeting with quite an extensive practice.  He was married on the 14th of May, 1865, to Ruth J. Coy, who, too, was born in Hendricks county, Indiana.  They have by this union one child:  Effie E., born on the 8th of August, 1866.  Both of their parents were natives of Kentucky.  He is a republican; in his religion he is liberal. Source: History of Vermilion County, Illinois - H. W. Beckwith - 1879 - Page 608   Elwood Twp. - ADAM NIER, Ridge Farm, inn-keeper, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, on the 23d of November, 1826, and was raised on a farm.  He was one of the early settlers of this county, coming here in 1840, and settling near Georgetown.  He came one half mile north of Ridge Farm, and then to the Ridge in 1876, and engaged in his present business.  Mr. Nier was married in 1852 to Mary Padget, who was born in Kentucky in 1820, and died in 1864.  They had by this union six children, four of whom are living:  Alfred, Lillie, William and Addie.  He was then married to Nancy Morton in 1867.  She was born in Kentucky in 1831. Source: History of Vermilion County, Illinois - H. W. Beckwith - 1879 - Page 598   Newell Twp. - NATHAN J. NORRIS, M.D., Bismark, farmer and physician, was born in Brown county, Ohio, on the 14th of December, 1824, and is a son of James and Elizabeth (Carter) Norris.   His father was born in Mason county, Kentucky, August, 1798. At the age of nine years he removed with his parents to Ohio. In November, 1833, he settled in Oakwood, township, and in the spring of 1845 moved into Newell, where he died, on the 21st of September, 1850.  The subject of this sketch married Martha Norris, on the 29th of January, 1852.  He removed to Brown county, Ohio, in 1854: and engaged in the practice of medicine. In February, 1858, he graduated from the American Medical College, Cincinnati.  In 1864 Mr. Norris returned to Newell township, where he has since lived, tilling the soil and practicing his profession.  He has been supervisor of Newel1 township five terms.  He owns one hundred and twenty acres of land, worth $4,800. In politics he is a democrat, and in religion a Baptist. Source: History of Vermilion County, Illinois - H. W. Beckwith - 1879 - Page 955 - Submitted by Mary Paulius NOTES:

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