NICHOLAS, David W.

NICHOLAS

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 5/31/2021 at 20:26:09

David W. Nicholas
born in 1838, Ohio

David Nicholas, a stock-buyer of Grant Township, Ida County, was born in Tioga County, Ohio, in 1838, a son of Dennis and Elizabeth (Watruous) Nicholas. The father was born in New Hampshire, but in early days removed with his father to Cleveland, Ohio, where the former lived the remainder of his life. In 1879 the father of our subject located in Adams county, Nebraska, where he died in April, 1891. The mother now resides in Kenewas, that State.
David W. Nicholas, our subject, removed to Janesville, Wisconsin, at the age of six and educated in Rock County. In 1848 he came to Fayette County, Iowa, and on August 4, 1862, enlisted in Company G, Thirty-eighth Iowa Infantry, for three years, or the remainder of the war. He was in the Western Army, and took part in the battles of New Madrid, at the siege of Vicksburg, on the Red river campaign and the battles of Lake Poncertrain and Brownsville, Texas, and was discharged at Connersville, Louisiana, in 1865. After the close of the struggle, Mr. Nicholas was engaged in buying horses at Denison, Texas, for three months and then returned to Fayette County, Iowa. In 1867 he went to Linn county and in 1873 came to Grant township, Ida County, where he is engaged in West Union, Iowa, on March 26, 1861, to Elizabeth Root, a native of Tioga County, Ohio. They had three children, one of whom is Charles, a foreman for Armour & Co., and resides in Kansas City, Missouri. The wife and mother died in 1862. In 1882 in Grant Township, he married Rena Smith, now deceased. Our subject is a member of Matthew Gray Post, G. A. R., of Ida Grove.
Source: Biographical History of Crawford, Ida, and Sac Counties, Iowa, 1893, p.610