Nichols, John
educator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1834, in Wake county, N. C. From 1873 till 1877 he was principal of the North Carolina institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, in Raleigh, N. C. In 1881 he was appointed postmaster at Raleigh. He has been secretary and treasurer of the State Fair association for a number of years, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as an independent.
NICHOLS, MRS. MARY SARGEANT, physician, author, was born Aug. 10, 1810, in Goffstown, N. H. She is a hydropathic physician, and the author of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology; Experience in Water Cure; A Woman's Work in Water Cure and Sanitary Education. As Mary Orme she published the novels, Uncle John; Agnes Norris; and The Two Loves, Eros and Anteros.