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Nason, Elias

clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1811, in Wrentham, Mass. He was a congregational minister of North Billerica, Mass., among whose numerous religious biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer of Massa- >chusetts; Life of John A. Andrew; Lives of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson; History of Middlesex County; Originality; Thou Shalt Not Steal; and Fountains of Salvation. He died June 17, 1887, in North Billerica, Mass.

NASON, MRS. EMMA [HUNTINGTON], poet, was born in 1845 in Maine. She is a poet of Augusta, Maine; and the author of White Sails (verse); The Tower, with Legends and Lyrics.

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