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EVANS AMBROSE NASH
Volume 3, pg. 1329

Still a young man as age is counted in years, Evans Ambrose Nash has
followed a career that has given him breadth of knowledge and volume
of experience that as a rule come to men only after long years of
contact with the affairs of the world. Until accepting his present
position as deputy state examiner and inspector at Oklahoma City, Mr.
Nash was engaged in journalism, a field in which, at least on one
occasion, he was the medium through which the reading public secured
exclusive news. In his present capacity he is proving an energetic
and reliable factor in the machinery of the state department.

Mr. Nash was born December 25, 1888, at St. Joseph Missouri, and is
a son of Robert M. and Anna (Connelly) Nash. His grandfather, John M.
Nash, a native of Massachusetts, was a civil engineer of note both
before and during the Civil war, being the builder of the Nashville &
Chattanooga Railroad, the Nashville, Decatur Alabama Railroad, and
the bridge spanning the Ohio river at Louisville Ky., and the
contracting engineer with General Sherman during that famous Union
soldier's "March to the Sea." Following the close of the hostilities
between the North and the South he engaged in the wholesale lumber
business, and continued to be occupied therein until his death,
October 9, 1871. He married a Kentucky girl and they became the
parents of six children: Robert M; Harvey C., who is now retired and
a resident of St. Joseph, Missouri; Edward H., who is deceased;
Arthur E., county collector of Buchanan County, Missouri; Lizzie E.,
who is deceased; Anna E., who is the wife of Dr. J. M. Austin, a
dentist of St. Joseph.

Robert M. Nash was born October 24, 1858, on a farm in Maury county,
Tennessee, and in 1871, after the death of his father, his mother,
with her six children, moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where Mr. Nash
engaged as apprentice in the drug business. Active in civic affairs,
he was made chief of clerk of the money order department of the St.
Joseph Post office in 1886, a position which he held four years, when
he received the appointment of secretary of the State Hospital Board
Asylum No. 2, at that city and from 1894 until 1902 was county clerk
of Buchanan County, during which time he became the organizer of the
original Missouri County Clerks' Association. In 1908 he came to
Oklahoma City to accept his present position in the state examiners
and inspector's department. He is one of the leading and influential
democrats of the city. Mr. Nash was married in St. Joseph, January
11, 1888, to miss Anna Connelly, who was born September 20, 1864, at
that city, daughter of Michael and Katherine (Jordon) Connelly. Her
father a native of County Cork, Ireland, came to the United States in
1846 and eleven years later became a pioneer shoe merchant of St.
Joseph, where he died August 1, 1906. Three children were born to
Robert M. and Anna Nash, namely: Evans Ambrose; Thomas Murray, born
August 28, 1893, and died October 27, 1893; and Kathryn Elizabeth,
born November 4, 1899.

Evans A. Nash attended the public schools of St. Joseph and St.
Mary's College, of St. Mary's Kansas where he graduated as president
and valedictorian of the class of 1907. At that time he entered upon
his journalistic career as reporter on the staff of the St. Joseph
Gazette, but one year later accompanied his parents to Oklahoma City,
where he joined the staff of the Times. Later he was identified with
The Daily Oklahoman in a reportorial capacity, subsequently
succeeding to the city editorship of The Daily pointer. In 1909 he
gained country-wide reputation as the correspondent of the Oklahoman
and for the Associated Press, who furnished exclusive stories during
the Crazy Snake and Creek Indian war. In June, 1912, Mr. Nash was
appointed deputy state examiner and inspector, a position which he
has still retained. Mr. Nash is a democrat. And is fraternally
connected with the Knights of Columbus.

On August 24, 1910, Mr. Nash was married to Miss Nancy B. Offutt,
who was born July 7, 1889, at Adairville, Kentucky, daughter of Ezra
and Ida (Paisley) Offutt, and educated at the Ladies' College of
Franklin, Kentucky. They have one child: Evans Grundy, born December
24, 1912.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Tiffany Edmonds, October 4, 1998.