Nash, Harry Powers 1860-1936
Cooperstown Obituary
Harry
Powers Nash, 75,
of
Cooperstown, Passes
Cooperstown, April 12---Harry Powers Nash, 75, died
at 4:30 this morning in the Bassett hospital, where he had been a
patient for the last 11 weeks. Death was attributed to the general
infirmities of age. He had been in declining health for a year.
The funeral will be held from the funeral chapel of
Brown and Tillapaugh, Pioneer street, Tuesday afternoon at 1:30.
Rev. Jackson L. Cole, rector of Christ Episcopal church, will
officiate, and interment will be in the family plot in the Brick
School cemetery in Garrattsville.
Mr. Nash was a son of the late George and Virtue
(Wheeler) Nash, and was born in Covington, Ky., October 5, 1860. At
the age of 12, his parents came to Garrattsville, where his young
manhood was spent. He taught in the rural schools of that locality
for several years, following which he took up hotel work. For
several seasons he was a clerk in the fashionable Cooper House summer
hotel in this village until that hostelry was destroyed by fire in
1891. In May, 1900, Mr. Nash became proprietor of Carr's hotel,
well-known old tavern which stood on the present site of Cook's Auto
and Supply store. He continued in this until May 1, 1905.
Afterward, he engaged in the insurance business in Providence, R. I.,
and Albany, and his last business connection before coming to
Cooperstown four years ago in October to make his home, was with the
Pine brothers, makers of cough medicines, in Philadelphia.
He was married in January, 1880, to Miss Mary Edmunds
of Garrattsville. The widow survives with one daughter, Mrs. Fred
H. Knapp of Albany; and one sister, Mrs. Eunice Slater of Angelica.
He was a member at his death of the Mohican club of
this village, and had a wide circle of friends who will experience a
personal loss in his passing.
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