"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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WILLIAM NICHOLSON was born in Salem County, N.J., July 20, 1830. His
parents, Isaac and Rebecca (Fogg) Nicholson, natives of Maryland and New
Jersey respectively, were married in Philadelphia, and shortly afterward
removed to Salem County, N.J., where the father carried on the manufacture
of edged tools until a few years prior to his death in 1868. The mother
died in 1873. William Nicholson is the third son and fourth child in
family, and was reared in New Jersey, where he obtained a good education in
the schools of his native town. When fifteen years of age, he came to
Milton, Wayne County, Ind., where he learned the blacksmiths's trade with
his brother John, with whom he remained for three years; returning thence
to New Jersey, he followed his trade until 1866, when he began the study of
dentistry with his brother George, and one year later purchased the business
of his brother. The spring of 1869, he removed to Wilson County, Kan., and
practiced dentistry until in 1875. He then came to Indiana, and opened an
office in Xenia, Miami County, where he remained only a short time.
Removing to Plainfield, he engaged in this practice there and in 1878, came
to Morgan County and opened an office in Mooresville, where he lived until
June, 1882, when he came to Martinsville and is at present here engaged very
successfully. On March 4, 1852, he was married to Emily Sickler, of Salem,
N.J. They had five children---William S., Albert A., Harriet E., Anna B.
(deceased) and an infant. His wife died August 20, 1866, an active member
of the Baptist Church. On May 15, 1868, he married to Sallie D. Price,
daughter of Jacob and Mary Price, of Salem, N.J. They have had four
children--Mary D., Harry, Fannie and Frank (deceased). Mr. Nicholson is a
member of the K. of H., Mooresville Lodge, No. 997; in politics, he is a
Republican and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.
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