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Nichols, William Ripley

chemist, educator, author, was born April 30, 1847, in Boston, Mass. He was devoted to the interests of the institute of Technology, and compiled a record of the Publications of Its Officers, Students, and Alumni, in which may be found a complete list of his own papers down to 1882. Besides his scientific papers he published in book-form An Elementary Manual of Chemistry, abridged from Eliot and Storer's Manual. He died July 14, 1886, in Germany.

NICHOLSON, ALFRED OSBORNE POPE, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 31, 1808, in Williamson county, Tenn. He was a member of the Tennessee state legislature from 1833 to 1839; was a senator in congress from that state from 1840 to 1842; and was a member of the state senate from 1843 to 1845. He was chancellor of the middle division of the state in 1845; was president of the bank of Tennessee in 1846 and 1847, and was elected printer of the house of representatives by the thirtythird congress, and printer of the senate by the thirty-fourth congress. He was elected a senator in congress from Tennessee for the term commencing in 1859 and ending in 1865, but was expelled July 11, 1861. He died March 23, 1876, in Columbia, Tenn. NICHOLSON, MRS. ELIZA JANE (POITEVENT), journalist, author, poet, was born in 1849 in Mississippi. She was a journalist of New Orleans, owner and editor of The Picayune, and the first woman in the world to own and manage a great daily paper. She was the author of Lyrics. She died in 1896.