Niblack, William E – Nichols, Matthias H
Niblack, William E
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born May 19, 1822, in Dubois county, Ind.
In 1843 he was appointed county surveyor, and in 1849 was elected to the Indiana state legislature, where he served until 1852. In 1854 he was appointed a circuit judge, and subsequently elected for six years.
He was elected a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from Indiana, and re-elected to the thirtysixth congress. He was elected to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the forty-first, forty-second and fortythird congresses.
Nicholas, George
soldier, lawyer, was born about 1755 in Hanover, Va.
He was a leading member of the convention which ratified the federal constitution, and a prominent member of the house of delegates in Virginia. He moved to Kentucky in 1790; was a member of the convention for framing a state constitution, and was the author of that instrument. He was the first attorney-general of the state. He died in 1799 in Kentucky.
Nicholas, John
congressman, state senator, was born Jan. 19, 1761, in Williamsburg, Va. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1793 to 1801. He subsequently removed to Geneva, N. Y., whence he was elected to the state senate from 1806 to 1809. He died Dec. 31, 1819, in Geneva, N. Y.
Nicholas, Philip Norborne
lawyer, jurist, banker, was born in 1773 in Williamsburg, Va. For many years he was president of the Farmers' bank of Virginia, and was judge of the general court of Virginia from about 1823 till his death. He died Aug. 8, 1849, in Richmond, Va.
Nicholas, Robert Carter
lawyer, jurist, public official, was born in 1715 in Hanover, Va. He represented James City in the house of burgesses of Virginia when very young. He continued in that position until the house of delegates was organized in 1777; and was a member of that body until 1779, when he was appointed a judge of the high court of chancery, and subsequently of the court of appeals. He was treasurer of the colony from 1776 to 1777; and in 1773 was a member of the committee of correspondence. He died in 1780 in Hanover, Va.
He
Nicholas, Robert Carter
soldier, public official, was born about 1793 in Hanover, Va. He was appointed captain of the twentieth infantry in 1812; major of the twelfth infantry in 1813, and lieutenant-colonel in 1814. He was charge d'affaires to Naples, and subsequently secretary of state of Louisiana. In 1851 he became state superintendent of public instruction. He died Dec. 24, 1857, in Terrebonne, La.
Nicholas, Samuel Smith
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1796 in Lexington, Ky. In 1831 he was appointed judge of the court of appeals; and he was subsequently a member of the Kentucky state legislature. He assisted in preparing the revised code of Kentucky, and was the author of a series of essays on Constitutional Law. He died Nov. 27, 1869, in Louisville, Ky. was
Nicholas, Wilson Cary
soldier, United States senator, governor, born about 1757 in Hanover, Va. He was governor of Virginia; was an officer in the war of the revolution, and a member of the convention which ratified the constitution of the United States. He was a distinguished member of the senate of the United States from 1799 to 1804; and of the national house of representatives from 1807 to 1809. In 1804 he resigned his seat in the senate, and accepted the office of collector of the ports of Norfolk and Portsmouth. He was afterward again a member of the house, but resigned his seat in 1809. In 1814 he was governor, and remained in office until 1817. died Oct. 10, 1820, in Milton, Ohio.
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Nicholls, Francis Tillou
soldier, lawyer, governor, was born Aug. 20, 1834, in Donaldsonville, La. The most notable fact of his life is that to him is due the organization of the first temperance society of Louisiana, of which he was president. During the civil war he was in the confederate service, and became brigadier-general. During 1888-92 he served with distinction as governor of Louisiana, and to him is principally due the defeat of the Louisiana lottery.
Nicholls, John C
soldier, lawyer, born state senator, congressman, was April 25, 1834, in Clinton, Ga. He served in the confederate army throughout the war; was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1865, and was a presidential elector in 1868. He was elected to the state senate in 1870 and served five years, and was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1876.
He was elected a representative from Georgia to the forty-sixth congress, and was also elected to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Nicholls, Rhoda
artist, was born in England. In 1896 she received a silver medal at the Atlanta (Ga.) international exposition on her water-color entitled Searching the Scriptures.
Nichols, Alva W
physician, surgeon, was born in 1848, near Grand Rapids, Mich. He acquired his education at the district school and the high schools of Grand Rapids and Greenville. He studied medicine at the State university at Ann Arbor; in 1874 graduated from the Bellevue Hospital Medical college of New York city; and has since been successfully engaged in the practice of his profession at Greenville. In 1886 he was a nominee for state senator; in 1888 he was a fusion elector, and since 1878 has been a greenbacker and populist. He has filled various public offices of honor; is a member of the leading medical societies, and a member and hearty supporter of various fraternal orders. In 1894 he was a candidate for governor of Michigan and made a remarkably successful canvass on the people's ticket for that high office.
Nichols, Clarinda Howard
reformer, was born Jan. 25, 1810, in Townsend, Vt. She was instrumental in securing the passage of the first bill in the Vermont legislature that recognized the civil existence of wives. She afterward emigrated to Kansas, served one term as recording clerk of the state legislature, and removed to Pomo, Cal., in 1871. She died Jan. 11, 1885, in Pomo, Cal.
Nichols, Edward Leamington
Ph. D., educator, physicist, author, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in England. Since 1887 he has been professor of physics in Cornell university. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Physical Review, and is the author of A Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Electricity, in two volumes; The Elements of Physics; and The Outlines of Physics.
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, 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.
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.