Nichols, Moses – Nicol, Charles Edward
Nichols, Moses
physician, soldier, was born in 1759 in Amherst, N. H. He was a general of militia during the revolution. He died in May, 1790, in Amherst, N. H.
Nichols, Mrs Rebecca S
(REED), poet, was born in August, 1820, in Greenwich, N. J. She is a poet of Cincinnati, and the author of Bernice, and Other Poems; and Songs of the Heart.
Nichols, Roland
poet, was born Aug. 1, 1865, in Shalersville, Ohio. He has contributed numerous poems to the leading periodicals of Ohio.
Nichols, Starr Hoyt
broker, author, was born in 1834 in Connecticut. He is a broker of New York city, in earlier life a unitarian minister. He has published Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.
Nichols, Thomas L
physician, author, was born in 1820. He is an American physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the civil war, and the author of Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a Day; and Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.
Nichols, William Augustus
soldier, was born May 12, 1818, in Philadelphia. He became colonel and brevet brigadier-general in 1864, and brevet majorgeneral in 1865 for meritorious service during the civil war. At the time of his death he was chief of staff and adjutantgeneral of the military department of Missouri. He died April 8, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo.
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.
Nicholson, Francis
governor. He was lieutenant-governor of New York under Andros; was governor of Virginia in 1690-92, and from 1699 to 1705; and governor of Maryland in 1694-99. He died March 5, 1728, in London, England,
Nicholson, Isaac Lea
bishop of Milwaukee, Wis., was born Jan. 18, 1844, in Baltimore, Md. He was consecrated bishop of Milwaukee in St. Mark's church, Philadelphia, in 1891. He has published occasional sermons, addresses and pastorals, and has compiled several liturgical manuals.
Nicholson, James Bartram
author, was born Jan. 28, 1820, in St. Louis, Mo. He is a prominent bookbinder of Philadelphia, and the author of a Manual of Bookbinding, an exhaustive treatise on the subject.
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.
Nicholson, Jasper Hopper
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1770 in Maryland. In 1805 he was appointed chief justice of the sixth judicial district, and was also a judge of the court of appeals of Maryland. From 1799 to 1806 he was a representative in congress. died March 4, 1817, in Maryland.
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Nicholson, John
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1765. He was for several years a member of the New York assembly; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1809 to 1811. He died in January, 1820.
Nicholson, John A
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 17, 1827, in Laurel, Del. He was elected a representative from Delaware to the thirty-ninth congress, and re-elected to the fortieth congress as a democrat.
Nicholson, John Reed
lawyer, jurist, was born May 19, 1849, in Dover, Del. He has served with distinction as attorney-general of Delaware, and is now chancellor of the state of Delaware.
Nicholson, Samuel
naval officer, was born in 1743 in Maryland. He was the first commander of the frigate Constitution, the building of which he superintended. At the time of his death he was at the head of the navy. He died Dec. 29, 1813, in Charlestown, Mass.
Nicholson, Timothy
educator, philanthropist, was born Nov. 9, 1828, in Belvidere, N. C. He is prominent in temperance reform, a member of the Indiana state board of charities and corrections since 1889, and president of the state conference of charities since 1896.
Nicholson, William Rufus
bishop, author, was born Jan. 8, 1822, in Green county, Miss. He is a reformed episcopal bishop, dean of the theological seminary of that faith in Philadelphia, and the author of The Blessedness of Heaven; Why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian; The Real Presence; and The Call to the Ministry.
Nicholson, William Thomas
inventor, manufacturer, was born March 22, 1834, in Pawtucket, R. I. He was famous as the inventor of the first successful machine for cutting files, and as the founder and president for thirty years of the Nicholson File company, one of the great manufacturing corporations of the east. He attended the common schools until the age of thirteen, and then, after a year spent at Uxbridge academy, entered a machine shop to learn the trade of a machinist. He branched out for himself in the manufacture of machinery and machine tools, in Providence, R. I., and during the civil war executed heavy government contracts for supplying parts of rifles. In 1864 he went to work in earnest upon an idea which had long occupied his mind, the invention of an improved machine for cutting files. After considerable study and labor he succeeded in perfecting an invention, and after securing his patents, immediately organized a stock company for the utilization of it. After years of experiment, and the inspection of the various methods by which files were produced both in this country and abroad, and the construction of a variety of machinery, for which over forty patents were obtained, he brought his company to the position which he desired, that of being the largest manufacturers of files in the world, and of producing a recognizedly superior quality article. He died Oct. 17, 1893, in Providence, R. I.
Nickerson, Charles Sumner
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 28, 1861, in Chatham, Mass. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended Tufts College Divinity school. For four years he was a displayman in the United States signal service; since 1886 has been a successful clergyman, and now fills a pastorate in Newton, Mass. He is the author of a volume entitled Noble Living; and a constant contributor to religious publications.
Nickerson, Franklin Steven
soldier, was born Aug. 27, 1826, in Swanville, Maine. During the civil war he served gallantly, and became major and lieutenant-colonel of the fourth regiment, and in 1862 he was commissioned a brigadier-general. In 1873 he opened a law office in Boston, and is noted as one of the foremost lawyers of New England.
Nickerson, Samuel M
banker. He is an able financier, and one of the foremost bankers of Chicago, Ill.
Nicklin, Philip Holbrook
author, was born in 1786 in Philadelphia.
He contributed articles on conchology to Silliman's Journal, and to other periodicals; wrote Letters Descriptive of the Virginia Springs; Pleasant Peregrinations Through Pennsylvania; and Remarks on Literary Property. He died March 2, 1842, in Philadelphia.
Nicol, Charles Edward
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1854, in Brentsville, Va. He attended the Richmond college and the university of Virginia. He served with distinction as a member of the house of delegates of Virginia for three sessions; and since 1895 he has been judge of the eleventh judicial circuit of Virginia. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the south and resides in Manassas, Va.