The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-29
a MISSOURI PIONEER

$Ahram Nave, Well Iinoyn In Wheeling.
VI Was Que OF til o~Oldest Residents OF the
Platte Pnrclase-Was u Very Sncce.sfuI
business ,iinn.
OF Abram Nave, whose recent death
az ST Joseph No.. the 1nteRigencer has
chronlcled, the st. Joseph News has the
+ following:
( With the death OF Abram Nave there
passed away one OF the Oldest residents
OF the Platte Purchase. He has been
one. Ef the most active men In this sec
stioR, during his lifetime, and few others
have had the business interests he COM.
manded during his career. During the
g last few years he has not been actively
engaged in business, but attended to his
own interests with the same ability he
displayed In his younger days.
Y More than one magnificent business
! in this state owes its existence TO
ADRIAN Nave. The greatest OF all per-
haps Is the, wholesale house that Is. still
zone OF the solid institutions OF the city.
lie has helped other men to fame and
fortune. provided each OF his children
with la nIsome fortune and at his
1 death icft large estate. AS n business
man he was always phcnomlnahy sue
-cessful, and Us citizen he was none
! the less SO. In his death 81. Joseph
loses one OF its oldest and best citizens.
AbrtE Nave came to Missouri when
Il vas yet n territory. He was born
June 2, lN5.sn Cooke county. East Ten
nesses. ard the next year, 1916, came to
4 missouri, which was then q territory,
with his parents. His father located
in that section now known as Saiince
& county, and there the boy grew to mnn-
hood He came OF a long line OF good
people, and Al an early age gave prom
Use OF the qualities that were in him.
In 1871 he weE: TO Savannah. where he
engaged In mercantile pursuits. and af-
ter becoming established there went
Z back to Salince county and was married
ITO Miss Lucy McCord. q daughter OF
! James McCord6 OF this city. She was
4 the mother Of his four childien and
died, at Savannah in 1853.
ss,ta4 After the death OF his wife Mr.. Nave
y remained widower for more than a
4 uuarter OF a century. He came TO St.
4 James McCord established the whole-
.3sale house now known rs the Nave &
EMcCord Mercantile Company. In 1877
I, he removed TO St. Louis and establish
\ ed the Wholesale firm OF Nave &: McCord
there. He resided In st. Louis until
z 1889, when lie returned to st. Joseph.
Since he returned 10 st. Joseph In 1888.
Mr.. Nave has not engaged actively In
y business OF any kind. hefhad large ln-
terests In Texas which he attended with
the game vigor that marked his early
Il career as q business man, and has Fill
i RETAINED many interests in this city aud
Elsewhere. MaEy years after the death
4 81 his first wife he married Mira Au-
Y gusta Bagley, Of Chillicothe, the mar
: Rage taking place In March. 1855. The
last few years OF hts life have been
apcnt In the peaceful enjoyment: OF his
handsome home on North Eighth street,
in the society t0f his large circle OF
q friends and old acquaintance n
-Four children and the widow survive
y Mr.. Nave. The children are William II.
I Nave. who resided many years IN New
y York. but who Is at present living In
Il 81 Joseph; james NJ. Nave. OF Kansas
u CITY. who Is engaged in business there;
Samuel NJ. Nave. OF this city. Of the
wholesale house known as the Nave
stcCord Mercantile Company, and Mrs.
Emma -Ranncy, WHO lives IN Eu-