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Nicholson, James Oscar

lawyer, politician, was born March 29, 1847, in Pike county, Ill. During the civil war he served as a soldier in the union army at the age of seventeen. He subsequently lived in Missouri, California, Oregon and Washington territory, and since 1878 has been engaged in the practice of law in Texas, and since 1881 in Laredo. He has taken an active part in political affairs; has been a delegate from his county to every state democratic convention in Texas for the past fourteen years, and was a delegate to the national democratic conventions in 1892 and in 1896.

NICHOLSON, JAMES WILLIAM AU- GUSTUS, naval officer, was born March 10, 1821, in Dedham, Mass. He served in the United States navy during the civil war, attaining the rank of admiral. He died Oct. 28, 1887, in New York city.