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Early life

Stephen Gordon Nash was born in 1822, in New Hampton, New Hampshire. where he graduated from New Hampton School at age 16

Education

He entered Dartmouth College in 1838 and graduated in 1842. While attending Dartmouth, he founded the Kappa Kappa Kappa Fraternity along with classmates John Dudley Philbrick and Brigadier General Harrison Carroll Hobart. After graduation Nash taught at New Hampton and Noyes Academy in Franklin, NH while studying law with George Nesmith.

Massachusetts

He practiced law in Massachusetts being admitted to the bar in 1846 and was appointed a Justice of the Suffolk County Superior Court in 1855. He retired from the court in 1859 and returned to private practice of law. He traveled to Europe thereafter, the details of which are in his papers held at Dartmouth College Library In 1872 he moved to Lynfield Center, Massachusetts where he died on May 1, 1894.

Marriage and Death of Children He married Mary Upton and they had two children who both died in infancy, Arthur U. Nash in 1864 and Gordon Nash in 1874.

Legacy and Gordon-Nash Library

At his death in 1894 he left land and $10,000 to establish in his birth place the Gordon-Nash Library which is a non-profit library in New Hampton, New Hampshire.