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Nichols, Edward Tatnall – Nichols, Thomas L

Nichols, Edward Tatnall

naval officer, was born March 1, 1823, in Augusta, Ga. He was appointed to the United States naval academy in 1866; became commodore in 1872, rear-admiral in 1878, and was placed on the retired list in March, 1885. He died Oct. 12, 1886, in Pomfret, Conn.

Nichols, Edward W

artist, was born in December, 1820, in Oxford, N. H.

He has attained success as an artist of New York city, where he opened a studio. He died Sept. 18, 1871, in Peekskill, N. Y.

Nichols, Ernest Fox

educator, author, was born June 1, 1869, in Leavenworth, Kan. In 1891-92 he was a fellow in physics in the Cornell university, and since 1892 has filled the chair of physics in the Colgate university of Hamilton, N.

Y. He is the author of a number of important researches in the Heat Spectrum.

Nichols, Francis T

governor. He was governor of Louisiana from 1876 to 1880.

Nichols, George Ward

author, was born June 21, 1837, in Mt. Desert, Maine. He was a writer on art and music who was president of the Cincinnati college of Music, and the author of The Story of the Great March; Art Education Applied to Industry; Pottery; and Sanctuary, a story of the Civil War. He died Sept. 15, 1885, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Nichols, Ichabod

clergyman, author, was born July 7, 1784, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a unitarian minister of Portland, Maine, in 1814-55, and from the latter date a resident of Cambridge. He was the author of Natural Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; and Remembered Words. He died Jan. 2, 1859, in Cambridge, Mass.

Nichols, James Robinson

chemist, author, was born July 19, 1819, in West Amesbury (now Merrimac), Mass.

He was a manufacturing chemist of Boston who founded The Journal of Chemistry (now The Popular Science News) in 1866, and was the author of What, When, and Where? Fireside Science; Chemistry of the Farm; and The New Agriculture.

He died Jan. 2, 1888, in Haverhill, Mass.

Nichols, Matthias H

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 3, 1824, in Salem county, N. J. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-third, thirtyfourth and thirty-fifth congresses.

Nichols, Moses

physician, soldier, was born in 1759 in Amherst, N. H. He was a general of militia during the revolution. He died in May, 1790, in Amherst, N. H. NICHOLS, MRS REBECCA S. (REED), poet, was born in August, 1820, in Greenwich, N. J. She is a poet of Cincinnati, and the author of Bernice, and Other Poems; and Songs of the Heart.

Nichols, Roland

poet, was born Aug. 1, 1865, in Shalersville, Ohio. He has contributed numerous poems to the leading periodicals of Ohio.

Nichols, Starr Hoyt

broker, author, was born in 1834 in Connecticut. He is a broker of New York city, in earlier life a unitarian minister. He has published Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.

Nichols, Thomas L

physician, author, was born in 1820. He is an American physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the civil war, and the author of Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a Day; and Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.