Person:Joseph Nations (2)

Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, 1900 census:^[4]

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Nations, Joseph Boarder 43 yrs (b. Jan 1857) (marr. 20 yrs) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Missouri) Cattleman

      Ida Boarder 36 yrs (b. Oct 1864)(4 children, 4 living) b. Mississippi (parents, b. Texas/Tennessee)

      Josephine Boarder 10 yrs (b. Aug 1889) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Mississippi) At School

      Catherine Boarder 9 yrs (b. May 1890) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Mississippi) At School

      Mary Boarder 4 yrs (b. Oct 1896) b. Missouri (parents, b. Texas/Mississippi)

El Paso County, Texas, 1910 census:^[5]

Nations, Joseph H. Head 53 yrs (marr. 29 yrs) b. Texas (parents, b. Texas)

      Ida Wife 44 yrs (3 children, 3 living) b. Mississippi (parents, b. Tennessee)

      Mary Dau 14 yrs b. Texas (parents, b. Texas/Mississippi)

Morfit, Josephine Nations Dau 27 yrs (div.) b. Missouri (parents, b. Texas/Mississippi)

      Josephine Gr/dau 7 yrs b. Missouri (parents, b. Maryland/Missouri)

Francis, May [BLACK] Servant 30 yrs b. Texas (parents, b. Texas)

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Joseph Henry Nations

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Gonzales, Texas, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   p. 97.
3. ↑ Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Jackson, Missouri, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule: Twelfth Census of the United States, NARA Microfilm Publication T623. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration)
   ED 25, p. 7A, dwelling/family 89/111 (1037 Washington St).
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 El Paso, Texas, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 75, p. 15B, dwelling/family 313/375 (904 Magoffin Ave).
6.   Paddock, B. B. (Buckley B.). A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas. (Chicago [Illinois]: Lewis Pub. Co., 1906)
   Vol. II, pp.480-481.

   JOSEPH H. NATIONS, a well known stock man of El Paso, was born in Gonzales county, Texas, January 5, 1857, a son of Eli and Eliza (Woodruff) Nations. The father was a native of Mississippi and in the early forties came to Texas, settling in Gonzales county. His wife was born in Texas. They are now living in El Paso and are among its pioneer settlers. She belongs to one of the well-known pioneer families of Texas. She was born prior to the establishment of the Texas republic, lived under that brief regime and her father was a participant in the events which brought independence to the state. Her half sister was the wife of Anson Jones, one of the earliest governors and contemporary of Samuel Houston. Throughout his entire life Joseph H. Nations has been connected with the live stock interests of this state. He was one of the prominent cattle men of the early days in western Texas, coming to this part of the state before either the Southern Pacific or the Texas Pacific Railroads were completed. He operated largely in the Pecos river country and still owns a large ranch in Pecos county. He located permanently in El Paso in the winter of 1887, and has there since made his home. He has been an is yet extensively interested in stock, being largely engaged in sheep raising in New Mexico and in addition he has large cattle interests in Texas. He is the owner of the J. H. Nations Meat & Supply Company, which business is conducted in his building, known as Nations Block, located in the heart of the business section of El Paso, at No. 214 San Antonio street. He has made extensive and judicious investment in real estate in El Paso, principally in East El Paso, where he has been associated with the Newmans and others prominent in the development of residence property there. He is president and stockholder in the Highland Realty Company, the best improved addition to El Paso. Mr. Nations was married to Miss Ida M. Hicks, of Lavaca county, Texas, and they have four daughters, Josephine, Annie, Catharine and Mary. Mr. Nations is a most generous and benevolent man and has a standing offer in the local papers to supply meat free to the worthy poor. He is unassuming in manner and free from ostentation, but is widely recognized as a prosperous and successful business man, and a gentleman of genuine, personal worth, whose life exemplifies many sterling traits of character, and he fully merits the confidence which is uniformly given him.

7.   Farmer, David, and Harwood P Hinton. History of the Cattlemen of Texas: a brief resumé of the live stock industry of the Southwest and a biographical sketch of many of the important characters whose lives are interwoven therein. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1991).

   NATIONS, JOSEPH HENRY (18571929). Joseph Henry Nations, rancher and businessman, was born in Gonzales County, Texas, on January 5, 1857, the son of Eli and Eliza Austin (Woodruff) Nations. He worked as a cowboy for his father and other ranchers for fifty cents a day; with the money he earned he began buying stock and by the age of eighteen had a substantial herd of his own. He drove his cattle from Gonzales County to the Gulf Coast, where he ranched for several years. In 1882 Nations moved with his father to Presidio County, where he ranched until 1897. In that year he sold out and established the Claber Hill Ranch near Midland in partnership with E. S. Newman. He then went into business for himself and lived the rest of his life, with the exception of a brief move to Kansas City in 1898, in El Paso. By 1914 Nations was handling 12,000 to 15,000 head of stock per year on his ranches in El Paso County, Pecos County, and Socorro and Valencia counties, New Mexico. Nations branched out into real estate and marketed Highland Park, Grand View, and Nations' Acres, among other additions.
   
   He also became one of the foremost businessmen and civic leaders in El Paso. He founded the Nations Meat and Supply Company, one of the largest businesses in the West; served as a director of the First National Bank of El Paso; owned the Nations Building in downtown El Paso; and was president of the City Transfer Company. He was also a trustee of the First Baptist Church, president of the El Paso Young Men's Christian Association, and a director of the Southwestern Stockman's Association of Texas and the American National Livestock Association. In the last capacity he testified before the Finance Committee of the United States Senate in 1913, urging that the duty on imported livestock be retained. He married Ida May Hicks of Moulton in 1880. They had four daughters. Nations died on November 27, 1929, in El Paso.