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AUGUSTINE NICHOLSON
Augustine NICHOLSON, son of John and Hannah (ROBINSON)
NICHOLSON, was born in Harrison County, Ohio, February 21, 1830. His
father was a native of County Armagh, Ireland, and came to Ohio
about the beginning of the present century.
His wife was a native of Delaware. They made their
home on a farm in Harrison County, Ohio, from the time of their
marriage till their death, he dying October 7, 1844, aged
seventy-two years, and his wife in April, 1874, aged eighty-seven
years. They reared a family of six sons and three daughters,
Augustine being next to the youngest child. He lived on the home
place till
twenty-five years old. In the spring of 1855 he went to Iowa, and in
the fall of that year bought a farm in Ringgold County, consisting
of 400 acres, then returning home to Ohio. In the spring of 1857 he
went again to Iowa and bought 400 acres more. He made some
improvements on the first purchase, and staid (sic) there two years,
when he went to the northern part of Missouri, where he had a sister
living, and remained there eight or ten months; being then taken
with the ague, he returned to Ohio, where he lived till 1875, having
previously disposed of his Iowa lands. In the spring of 1875, after
visiting some of the Eastern cities, he sailed for Liverpool, and
from there he went to Belfast, in which vicinity he had relatives.
After making a short visit at Belfast, he visited Dublin, London,
and Paris, and other principal places of interest, and then went to
St. Helier, on Jersey Island, where he remained from September till
the following May, when he returned to Ohio. After attending the
Centennial at Philadelphia, the following October, he came to
California, to Los Gatos and San Jose. He spent the winter in San
Jose, and in July, 1877, went as far east as Oskaloosa, Jefferson
County, Kansas, where he remained till after the holidays, when he
took a trip down into the Indian Territory and Texas.
He visited Ohio, and was married there April 9, 1879, to Margaret
MILLER, a native of Ireland. In the fall of the same year he brought
his wife to California and lived in Los Gatos two years and a half.
After making one more trip to Ohio, in 1882, and remaining there a
year, he returned to Los Gatos, where he has since resided. March 3,
1885, he bought his present place in the Almond Grove Addition, and
in the fall of the same year built his present house. Just two years
and six months before the time of purchase, he disposed of a number
of lots by auction sale.
SOURCE: FOOTE, H. S., editor. Pen Pictures for the Garden of the
World of Santa Clara County, California. Illustrated. Pp. 302-03.
Lewis Publishing Co. Chicago. 1888.
Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2009 |
