NICOL, William Wallace 1831-1904

NICOL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/24/2010 at 17:36:20

William Wallace Nicol, 1831-1904

William Wallace Nicol was born in Hammond St. Lawrence county, New York, August 18, 1831, and died in Little Cedar, Iowa, April 22, 1904, aged 72 years 8 months and 4 days. He was the older of twins, William Wallace and Robert Burns Nicol, born to Mr. and Mrs. William Nicol, who were of sturdy Scotch stock. In 1853 he came with his parents to Stacyville, this county, having lived here 42 years and thus becoming a pioneer of the county which still claimed him as an honorable and respected citizen at the time of his death.

Besides his wife and son, W. B. Nicol, of David, and daughter, Mrs. Winnie Julius, wife of Fred Julius, of Little Cedar, he leaves three brothers, and five sisters to mourn his loss, Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols, Cotton Hill, West Virginia; Mrs. Margaret Kessler of Kessler's Crosslanes, near Carnifax Ferry, West Va.; Mrs. Agnes Lynch, Auburn, New York; Robert B. Nicol, editor of the Fostoria Record, Fostoria, Iowa; Clark L. Nicol, Milford, Iowa; Violet Brainard, Union township, Mitchell County, Iowa and Mrs. Mattie Dickerson, Lark Park, Iowa. He was married to Alta Nichols on March 3, 1859, in St. Lawrence county, N.Y. In 1894, he united with the Methodist Church at Little Cedar.

William Nicol has left behind him a noble and honorable life record of nearly a half century in this county, where he succeeded in accumulating a goodly competency and in all these years there has been naught that could be said against him as a man and citizen. For many years he resided on a farm near Brownville, where he was engaged in the breeding of fine horses. He was one of the first in Iowa to import the Norman breed of horses, and it will be remembered that his valuable stallion "Emperor" which he had imported from France, was poisoned in his barn some twenty-five years ago.

For the past ten years Mr. Nicol has resided in the village of Little Cedar, where he worked a small patch of ground adjoining the city and lived in peace and happiness. When he came to this county Stacyville was but a postoffice and Osage and Mitchell little more that hamlets.

Among the relatives in attendance at the funeral were the following: R. B. Nicol, Fostoria; Robert H. Nicol and wife, Charles City, Iowa.

[Osage News -- Thursday, April 28, 1904]

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