Wallis Nash (1837 - 1926)

Wallis Nash was an well known English lawyer who immigrated to Oregon in 1879. He came to Oregon to build a railroad; he stayed the rest of his life to build a university. Nash authored three major books and two pamphlets, "Oregon and Back in 1877," "Two Years In Oregon and "A Lawyer's Life On Two Continents, plus "The Farm, Ranch and Range In Oregon" and "The Settlers Handbook to Oregon."