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History of Cleveland and its Environs
The Heart of New Connecticut
Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company
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1918
 

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W. F. Nash

WILLIAM F. NASH.  The largest independent packing company in the State of Ohio is the Cleveland Provision Company.  It is a big business, one that has been in existence for fully three-quarters of a century, and its development throughout has been fostered largely by the members of one family.  It was founded by the late Benjamin RoseJohn Nash became associated with Mr. Rose in the Cleveland Provision Company about 1893, and most of the executive officers at present are his sons, including William F. Nash, vice president.
     The late John Nash was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1836, and spent a large part of his life in the old country, coming to Cleveland about 1890.   He died in this city in 1910.  He first came to the United States when sixteen years of age, locating at Baltimore, Maryland, where he became associated with the packing industry.  Subsequently he had further experience in the Chicago packing firms, and finally went back to England to marry, and took his bride to Chicago.  In 1872 he again went back to England and lived for about two years on the Isle of Wight.  For ten years his home was a farm in Worcestershire.  England, and from there he went to Liverpool and engaged in the commission business twelve years, conducting a large provision house.
     On returning to this country, John Nash located at Cleveland, where he became associated with Benjamin Rose in establishing the Cleveland Provision Company.  Mr. Rose was a factor in this business until his death in 1909.  John Nash had for a number of years been vice president of the company, and succeeded Mr. Rose as head of the institution, but after a few months the presidency was taken by his son, S. T. NashS. T. Nash is now president; William P. Nash, vice president; and Joseph H. Nash, secretary and treasurer.
     The plant of the Cleveland Provision Company is at 2527 Canal Road.  It is a wholesale packing establishment, employs about 900 hands and its goods are shipped all over the United States and to England and France.
     The late John Nash, who died at Cleveland in 1910, was a member of the Episcopal Church and the Masonic fraternity.  He married Winnifred Fowler. She was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, England, in 1841, and died at Cleveland in 1917.  Their children were: Joseph H., a resident of Cleveland and secretary and treasurer of the Cleveland Provision Company; Elizabeth A., who is unmarried and lives at Cleveland Heights, being a stockholder in the Cleveland Provision Company; Winnifred E., wife of Charles Tilby, a resident of Berkenhead, England, where he is in the shipping business; William F.; S. T. Nash, president of the Cleveland Provision Company; R. P. Nash, twin brother of S. T., who is now a major in the United States army, at present stationed in the army camp at Chillicothe, Ohio; J. W. Nash, who lives at Bournemouth.  England, serving with the rank of commander in the English navy; Dianna L. and Margaret, both residents of Cleveland Heights and stockholders in the Cleveland Provision Company; Annie, unmarried and living at Ocean View, Virginia; H. L. Nash, a captain in the engineers' corps of the United States army; and T. H. Nash, a resident of Cleveland Heights and a captain now stationed at Camp Sheridan.
     William F. Nash was born at Chicago, Illinois, Oct. 31, 1870, and in early infancy his parents returned to England and he was educated in the grammar schools, finishing at Berkenhead College.  For three years of his youth he was associated with his father in business at Liverpool, and in 1890 came to Cleveland and entered the Cleveland Provision Company.  He began as a clerk and did practically everything in the round of duties, which made him familiar with every phase and detail of the business.  He has been one of the executive managers for a number of years, and succeeded his father in the office of vice president of the company.
     Mr. Nash is an independent republican in politics and belongs to the Episcopal Church.  He and his family reside at 2921 South Park Boulevard in Shaker Heights, Cleveland.  He married in 1909, at Wickliffe, Ohio, Miss Anna B. RockefellerMrs. Nash is a daughter of Frank and Helen Elizabeth (Scofield) Rockefeller and is a niece of John D. Rockefeller.  Her father is deceased and her mother resides at Wickliffe, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Nash have three children: William R., born Nov. 10, 1910; Helen E., born Sept. 2, 1912; and John F., born Jan. 22, 1916.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 401 - Vol. III


W. M. Nichols
WILLIAM M. NICHOLS.  Not least among the industries that give prestige to Cleveland as a city are the clay products manufacture.  One of the largest of these is The Cleveland Brick & Clay Company, of which William M. Nichols has been general manager and otherwise officially identified since its establishment.
     Mr. Nichols has been a resident of Cleveland for the past twenty years and is a native of the old Western Reserve of Ohio.  He was born in Hiram Township, Portage County, May 31, 1855.  The Nichols family was founded in America in 1700 by three brothers of the name who came from England, locating in New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut.  This branch of the family is descended from the New York State settler.  Mr. Nichols' grandfather was Capt. Andrew Nichols, a native of New York and captain of a company in the War of 1812.  In 1832 he brought his family to Portage County, Ohio, and spent the rest of his years as a pioneer farmer.
     Paris Chandler Nichols, father of the Cleveland manufacturer, was born at Crown Point, Essex County, New York, July 10, 1823, and was nine years of age when he came to Portage County, Ohio.  He grew up in a country district, had a common school education, and in 1851 went east to Massachusetts and married Miss Hannah Caroline Younglove.  She was born at South Lee, Massachusetts.  After his marriage Paris C. Nichols located on a farm in Hiram Township of Portage County, and developed a fine estate of 300 acres.  He was an influential citizen, filled various offices of trust, and in 1880 was elected county commissioner for six years.  He was a stalwart republican, and his life of usefulness and service made him a man of mark in his home county.  Both he and his wife died at the age of seventy-two.  They had two sons and four daughters, four of whom reached years of maturity.
     William M. Nichols grew up in the environment of the old home farm, attended local schools and the high school at Garrettsville.  At the age of twenty he took his place on his father's farm and was identified with agricultural activities for many years.  In 1896 he removed to Garrettsville, but the following year came to Cleveland and became connected with the Canton & Cleveland Brick Company.  He was superintendent of the plant one year
and after that was a director of the company and superintendent until February, 1902.  At that date he sold out his interests with that concern and established The Cleveland Brick & Clay Company with J. L. Higley of Canton as president, Mr. Nichols as vice president and general manager, J. C. Trask as treasurer, and F. M. Brady as secretary.  At the present time Mr. A. L. Hendershot is secretary and treasurer of the company.
     Construction of the plant, located at Harvard Street and the Baltimore & Ohio tracks, was begun February 1, 1903, and the first brick manufactured in October of the same year. For some years they manufactured shale brick, paving brick, hollow brick conduits and fireproofing, but at the present time the output is exclusively shale paving brick.  The first year they manufactured 5,000,000 brick and at the present time the plant turns out regularly 1,000,000 brick a month. Sixty-five men are employed in the business and it is an industry of no inconsiderable magnitude.
     Mr. Nichols is a republican in his political faith. He married at Windham, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1890, Miss Frances Higley, who was born and reared in Portage County, daughter of John L. and Elizabeth (Frary) Higley.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 380 - Vol. II
  LOUIS E. NOBLE, vice president and secretary of the Cleveland Automobile School Company, concerning which a separate article appears on other pages, is an expert automobile man, of many years practical experience, and was for a long time head tester for the White Automobile Company and has traveled as trouble man for different automobile organizations.
     Mr. Noble was born at Mesopotamia, Ohio, Dec. 12, 1886, a son of Elson L. and Nellie E. (Sperry) Noble.  His father, who was born at Windsor, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1862, was educated in the old Grand River Institute at Austinburg, Ohio, was a merchant at Mesopotamia for three years, married there, and then located on a farm nearby.  For a number of years now he has been engaged in the lumber and milling industry and is also a county commissioner of Trumbull County.  He and his wife have three children: Leon C., of Cleveland; Louis E.; and Leonard S., at home.
     Louis E. Noble had a grammar and high school education in his native county, and in 1906, on leaving high school, attended Oberlin College for one year.  The next year he came to Cleveland and was employed as an instructor in the automobile school of the Y. M. C. A., the nucleus of the present Cleveland Automobile School.  The following year he was traveling trouble man and tester for the White Motor Company and in 1909 became one of the incorporators of the Cleveland Automobile School, of which he has since been vice president and secretary and also school principal.
     Louis E. Noble had a grammar and high school education in his native county, and in 1906, on leaving high school, attended Oberlin College for one year.  The next year he came to Cleveland and was employed as an instructor in the automobile school of the Y. M. C. A., the nucleus of the present Cleveland Automobile School.  The following year he was traveling trouble man and tester for the White Motor Company and in 1909 became one of the incorporators of the Cleveland Automobile School, of which he has since been vice president and secretary and also school principal.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 439 - Vol.

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