STEPHEN NICHOLS
Stephen Nichols was born in Lorain county, Ohio, June 12, 1843. He was reared upon a farm, and for ten years was engaged in getting out timber in the wooded regions of Lorain county. In April, 1866, he came to Iowa, and stopped at Cedar Rapids until September of the same year. In 1867 he raised a crop of grain on the site of the present city of Atlantic. He bought his present farm in 1868, of Jeremiah Sample. It is located on sections 35 and 36 of Pymosa township, and contains one hundred and forty acres in all. It was unimproved at the time of his purchase. He settled on this place in April, 1868, making his first improvements in that year. He drew the lumber for his first house, which is a part of his present residence from Council Bluffs. His farm is now all under improvement. Mr. Nichols was married in Marion, Linn county, Iowa, to Flora C. Codding, a native of Ohio. They have two sons and two daughters...Burt, Florence, Roy and an infant daughter.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 571.
