LIASH, SAMUEL Caldwell (b Oct 04, I834- d May 26, I919)

Mr. Nash was a native of Nova Scotia. He was employed with the Inland Revenue Service in Halifax for three before being sent to Charlottetown in I870, to organize the Department and was appointed collector. He was continuously collector in Charlottetown for the Inland Revenue Department for a period of upwards of 40 years, a record rarely equalled in the Civil Service of Canada.

He was a lifelong member onion Church, being a Sabbath School superintendent and teacher, and Elder. For many years, he was treasurer of Zion.

He belonged to that noble succession of "God's gentlemen," who in their own quiet and devoted manner have wrought into the life of our beloved Church that element which has, under God, assured her success. (minutes of Session I9l9).

Samuel wrote a "de from

it's erection to February I908" A marble plaque in his honor was placed in the sanctuary on the wall

over the entrance to the ministers study. It reads:

IN MEMORIAM SAMUEL C. NASH ELDER, S. S. SUPERINTENDENT, TEACHER AND HISTORIAN OF ZION CHURCH

DIED MAY 26TH l9l9 AND HIS WIFE

HANNAH CREELMAN

DIED JUNE IOTH I920

”AT EVENING TIME ITSHALL BE LIGHT"

EOQI‘E, HILLIAM Sl (July 20, I844 - )

Trustee (I904 - I910)

BOrn Burslem, North Staffordshire, England to Joseph and Ann (Sergeant). Joseph went into the pottery business, where he spent his life. William, following school served as an apprentice in the Earl of Granville's machine shop. In I866 he came to Enfield, N.S. where he had two brothers and a sister living, and went to work in a pottery factory. He set up the machinery. He took a trip and met the manager of the lntercolonial Railway and was hired to come to P.E.I. to take charge of the mill at Charlottetown.

He married in December I865, Frances Biggarton of Stoke-upon- Trent, England. He would have moved on had it not been for his wife. In I90I he was appointed mechanical superintendent of the Prince Edward Island Railway.

Williams eldest brother was one of only seventeen who returned out ofone thousand men who went into battle in the Crimean War.

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