Nichols, William Campbell 1831 - 1902

NICHOLS, RYDER, STOCKMAN, EASTMAN, FRAZIER

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Date: 5/22/2024 at 16:07:26

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 21, 1902, FP, C5

W. C. Nichols Dead.
Thursday last, Mr. W. C. Nichols was taken down with spinal meningetis{sic} while down town. He was taken into the store of his son and cared for as well as possible and removed to his home in the evening, passing away Friday afternoon about 5 o’clock. He had been an active man all his life, was among the early settlers of the county and being enterprising, energetic and economical had accumulated a competence. We are without the data for an obituary which will be furnished later.

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Jan. 24, 1902, FP, C7

Obituary.
William Campbell Nichols was born in Londonderry, N. H., Aug. 18, 1831. When a child of about one year, his parents moved to Nashua, N. H. Here the boy spent the days of his childhood and youth; when about nineteen years old he removed with his parents to Yorkshire Corners, Cattaraugus county, in Western New York. Here the family lived only about one year, and then removed to Grand Detour, Ogle county, Ill. This was in 1851-2, and Illinois was just beginning to become a manufacturing state. With an eye keen for advancement, Mr. Nichols hired to the Grand Detour Plow Company as a traveling salesman, a position which he held for eight years.
In 1857 Mr. Nichols was married to Mrs. Lydia Ryder. In 1859, Mr. Nichols determined to cast his fortune in the then unknown west; and so he organized a little company of friends and relatives and started overland in covered wagons and ox teams for Pike’s Peak. It was a blithesome company and on their canvas wagon covers they blazoned the fact that they were “Bound for Pike’s Peak.” But when the party reached Iowa City they heard to their dismay that the Pike’s Peak “boom” had collapsed. Not disheartened, Mr. Nichols and his cousin (one of the party) pointed the noses of their oxen northward and came to Howard county where his parent already resided. In the fall of that year, 1859, they settled on the old homestead in Albion township, where they have made their home all these years. Since coming to Iowa Mr. Nichols has been actively engaged in farming and stock raising. For some years past he, with his family, have lived in Cresco, yet till the day of his death he was actively engaged in farming.
Upon Friday, Jan. 17, 1902, he was suddenly taken sick upon Elm Street, and was carried by his sons to his home, but loss all consciousness before reaching there, and never regained it. He died Friday evening about six p.m.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and four children, three sons and one daughter: Wrs.{sic} Wm. Stockman, C. D. Nichols and Howard Nichols, of Cresco, Holt Nichols of Mamia, Mont. He is also survived and mourned by two brothers and two sisters: Mr. Samuel Nichols, of Albion township, and Mr. Frank Nichols of Shell Lake, Minn. Mrs. Lydia Eastman of Minneapolis, and Mrs. Frazier, of Preston, Minn.
Mr. Nichols was one of the very best of men in all the relations of life, a good citizen, a kind neighbor, a true and trusty friend. He was a man of the strictest integrity and was held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.

Source: Decorah Republican Jan. 23, 1902 Page 2 Col 4

Pioneers Passing Away.

Thursday last, Mr. W. C. Nichols was taken down with spinal meningitis while down town. He was taken into the store of his son and cared for as well as possible and removed to his home in the evening, passing away Friday afternoon about 5 o’clock. He had been an active man all his life, was among the early settlers of the county and being enterprising, energetic and economical had accumulated a competence. We are without the data for an obituary which will be furnished later.

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