NICHOLS, M. V.

NICHOLS, LINDSLEY, BARTLE

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 5/7/2010 at 21:57:15

M. V. Nichols came to Osage in 1869. He was born in Wayne Co., N. Y., March 17, 1835, and was the son of Dr. Samuel F. Nichols, who graduated at Brattleboro College, Vermont, and delivered the valedictory in 1825. Soon after graduating he located in Wayne Co., N. Y., where he followed his profession for eighteen years.

In about the year 1845 he emigrated to Janesville, Rock Co., Wis. Here he remained four years, when he removed to Green county, where he laid out the town of Albany, in company with Erastus O. Pond. Having lost his health through hard riding, he spent his latter winters in New Jersey. He died in Colorado, Nov. 14, 1874.

In politics he was a staunch democrat, was one of the electors of James Buchanan, and was the person who carried the returns to Washington. He was married to Julia A. Bartle, by whom he had seven children, four sons and three daughters. Mrs. Nichols is still living at Albany, Wis. M. V. Nichols, the eldest son, received his education at the common school and Beloit College, but on account of failing health he had to leave college before graduating. His father established the Northwestern Stage Company, in Wisconsin, and M. V. was placed as agent at Black River Falls, for one year.

About the time of the Kansas troubles he went there, but not liking the situation he returned, and immediately went to Minnesota, where he embarked in his present business. In 1858 he formed a partnership with C. H. Cotter and S. P. Wheeler, and their lines have crossed every county and territory in the north and west. In times past they have employed as high as 200 men and 500 horses. In 1865 he was married to Fannie A. Lindsley, a daughter of Charles and Sylvia A. Lindsley. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols are the parents of three children—Stella S., Frederick and Grace.

Mrs. Nichols' parents emigrated to Minnesota in 1856, and located where the city of Rochester now stands, laying out the northern addition of that city. In 1858 Mr. Lindsley represented his district in the State Senate, and was a candidate for Congress and would have been elected but for the trickery of his own party. In early life he followed journalism, and was at one time editor of the Troy Whig, of Troy, N. Y. He is at present residing in New York city.

Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, pages 435 & 436.

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