Born: Ap­ril 21, 1811, Wren­tham, Mass­a­chu­setts.

Died: June 17, 1887, at his home “Bright­side,” in North Bill­er­i­ca, Mass­a­chu­setts.

A Con­gre­ga­tion­al min­is­ter, lec­tur­er, and writ­er, Na­son was ed­u­cat­ed at the Wren­tham Acad­e­my (1828), the school in Marl­bo­rough (1829), and Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty (1831-35). He taught in Georg­ia for some time, and from 1840 to 1849 in New­bu­ry­port, Mass­a­chu­setts. He was li­censed to preach in 1849, and was or­dained as pas­tor of the Con­gre­ga­tion­al church in Na­tick, Mass­a­chu­setts, in 1852. In 1856, he ac­cept­ed a call from the Mys­tic Church in Med­ford, Mass­a­chu­setts, “a church that re­ceives its name, not from its doc­trines, but from the riv­er that flows through the town.” He moved to Ex­e­ter, New Hamp­shire, in 1861, and North Bil­ler­i­ca, Mass­a­chu­setts, in 1865. Nason’s works in­clude:

Sources

Hymns

  1. Jesus On­ly, When the Morn­ing

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