Nicum, John
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 6, 1851, in Germany. He is a prominent lutheran minister of Rochester, N. Y., who has published History of the New York Ministerium; Gleichniss- Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a translation of Wolf's Lutherans in America.
NIEDRINGHAUS, FREDERICK G., manufacturer, congressman, was born Oct. 21, 1837, in Germany. In 1862 he began the stamping of tinware; in 1866 the business was incorporated under the name of St. Louis Stamping company, in Missouri, of which he is president. In 1874 he invented what is called granite ironware, and in 1881 established extensive rolling mills. He was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.