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includes History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania
H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893
PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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History of Luzerne County, PA - Francis Marion Nichols
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History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania
H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893
PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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[Page 1207]
FRANCIS MARION NICHOLS, attorney at law, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Smithfield, Bradford Co., Pa., May 23, 1851, and is a son of George W. and Elizabeth (Hemingway) Nichols. His great-grandfather, Stephen Nichols, settled in Albany townshp, Bradford Co., Pa., in 1819. He was a basket-maker by trade, and his wares had the reputation of being the best that could be manufactured. His wife was Margaret Potter, a native of England, and a daughter of Robert Potter, a Revolutionary soldier. George W. Nichols, father of our subject, was a native of Albany, and a millwright and carpenter by trade. Our subject remained at home until sixteen years of age. In early life he taught school at Athens and Ulster townships, also taught mathematics in Macauley's Business College, at Lawrence, Kans., and finished his education at the State University of Kansas, at Lawrence. While in that town he read law with Barker & Summerfield, and finished his law studies with W. A. & B. M. Peck, of Towanda, Pa.; was admitted to the bar of Bradford county in the spring of 1873, and to the Luzerne county bar October 28, 1873. In 1879 he was appointed district attorney of Luzerne county, to fill a vacancy, and the same year was a candidate for the nomination for the same office in the Republican County Convention, but was defeated by a small vote. In 1880 he was appointed, by Attorney-General Palmer, a special assistant for Luzerne county. In 1881 he was chairman of the Luzerne county Independents, who refused to support the nominee of the Republican State Convention for State treasurer. In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for district attorney, but was defeated. On February 1, 1874, Mr. Nichols married Mary Corker, of Norwich, N.Y., by whom he had four children: Florence E., Lyman B., Lester W. and Leona M. His second wife was Almina Wilson, of Clifford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., and by this marriage he has one child, Francis M.
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?khmiller856 Thanks for the story. John son of Stephen was also a basket maker. In the "History of Bradford County" John took a basket weaving challenge &made a basket that could hold water. The story is in my comment section of my tree. Again thanks for info. I had father of John Nichols different. In a book written by descendants of the Courson Family. "The Descendants of Cornelius Coursonwhit" it claims John's father was Andrew. This makes things even more confusing. Robert Potter was of English descent but from RI according to his War Pension Appl.
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History of Luzerne County, PA - Francis Marion Nichols
Posted 21 Sep 2016 by GHawks7660
History of Luzerne County Pennsylvania
H. C. Bradsby, Editor
S. B. Nelson & Co., Publishers, 1893
PART II, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
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[Page 1207]
FRANCIS MARION NICHOLS, attorney at law, Wilkes-Barre, was born in Smithfield, Bradford Co., Pa., May 23, 1851, and is a son of George W. and Elizabeth (Hemingway) Nichols. His great-grandfather, Stephen Nichols, settled in Albany townshp, Bradford Co., Pa., in 1819. He was a basket-maker by trade, and his wares had the reputation of being the best that could be manufactured. His wife was Margaret Potter, a native of England, and a daughter of Robert Potter, a Revolutionary soldier. George W. Nichols, father of our subject, was a native of Albany, and a millwright and carpenter by trade. Our subject remained at home until sixteen years of age. In early life he taught school at Athens and Ulster townships, also taught mathematics in Macauley's Business College, at Lawrence, Kans., and finished his education at the State University of Kansas, at Lawrence. While in that town he read law with Barker & Summerfield, and finished his law studies with W. A. & B. M. Peck, of Towanda, Pa.; was admitted to the bar of Bradford county in the spring of 1873, and to the Luzerne county bar October 28, 1873. In 1879 he was appointed district attorney of Luzerne county, to fill a vacancy, and the same year was a candidate for the nomination for the same office in the Republican County Convention, but was defeated by a small vote. In 1880 he was appointed, by Attorney-General Palmer, a special assistant for Luzerne county. In 1881 he was chairman of the Luzerne county Independents, who refused to support the nominee of the Republican State Convention for State treasurer. In 1882 he was the Republican nominee for district attorney, but was defeated. On February 1, 1874, Mr. Nichols married Mary Corker, of Norwich, N.Y., by whom he had four children: Florence E., Lyman B., Lester W. and Leona M. His second wife was Almina Wilson, of Clifford, Susquehanna Co., Pa., and by this marriage he has one child, Francis M.
Luzerne Legal Register - Francis Marion Nichols
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The Luzerne legal register, Volume 14
By George Brubaker Kulp, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
page 62-65
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Francis Marion Nichols was born May 23, 1851, at Smithfield, Bradford county, Pa. His great-grandfather, Stephen Nichols, came from England and settled in Connecticut. His son John removed from that state in 1819, and settled in Albany township, Bradford county. The wife of John Nichols, who was Margaret Potter, was also born in England. Her father, Robert Potter was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and was with General Gates at the surrender of Burgoyne. John Nichols was a basket maker, and had both reputation and pride in the manufacture of that article. The following anecdote is related of him: At one time he offered to make for a neighbor a basket containing one and a half bushels for as much wheat as the basket would convey water from a spring to the house, a distance of a few rods. The offer was accepted and and Mr. Nichols began his work. Selecting and thoroughly seasoning his splints, which were cut very narrow, he wove them as closely as possible, and then soaked the basket in water, which expanded the wood and closed the interstices. He then summoned the neighbor, and going to the spring filled the basket with water and carried it to the house, the fluid standing an inch only from the rim. The price was paid.
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His son, George W. Nichols, and the father of F. M. Nichols, is a native of Albany. He lives at New Albany, in the same township, and is a millright and carpenter by trade. He has been a justice of the peace for fifteen or twenty years. The mother of F. M. Nichols, and the wife of George W. Nichols, was Elizabeth B. Hemingway, of Rome, Pa. She died May 3, 1872. In a work which Mr. Nichols has in preparation , and which is entitled "An Argument in Favor of the Bible Narration of Man's Creation and Dreams in which Humanity's Future is Revealed and its Shadows Depicted," he pays the following tribute to her memory:
"Many years have elapsed since I received the farewell kiss, and heard the dying prayer of my dear christian mother, -- the house in which she endeavored , by her love and tenderness, to guard the suceptibilities of my youth against evil temptations, an with an anxious heart saw me cross the threshhold of manhood. All the associations in the midst of which she faithfully did her life's work, the grave within whose solemn walls her physical presence was hidden forever from my sight, are many miles away; but unconnected
with all tangible object, I can sit here in the silence of the midnight hour , and recall before my mind's eye her cheering countenance and hear again the kind and loving words with which she sought to comfort me in sadness or make more gratifying the fruits of success. I can see her weeping over the missteps of my boyhood, and smiling her heart's joy when she saw the seeds of truth and virtue, which she had sown in my moral nature, beginning to sprout. I can see her, oh, how distinctly, slowly and without a murmur, fading away under the ravages of disease, and when the grim presence of death became visible to her consciousness, in the midst of the tears and sobs of children, friends and neighbors, with a calmness that the terrors of her approaching dissolution could not disturb, and a reliance upon the promises of her Master, that was absolutely free from the weakness of doubt or uncertainty, beseeching God to pour into the broken hearts at her bedside the consolations of a christian's hopes.
But equally as distinct I remember the influence of my mother's physical presence. I can re-experience the soothing sensations that came to me from the gentle stroke of her hand upon my forehead, when sickness, anger and disappointments beclouded the pleasures and ambitions of my childhood. When the turmoil and greed of the business contentions of the world are hidden from my sight, and I am permitted to meditate in the quiet and inspiration.
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of solitude, I can feel in the sensibilities of my soul the touch of her christian and moral instructions, and in the purest recesses of my heart the sacred influences of her last prayer."
Mr. Nichols remained at home until he was sixteen years of age, and has depended upon his own resources since then. In his early youth, he was a teacher in the schools of Athens and Ulster townships in his native county, and also for a while he taught mathematics in Macauly's Business College at Lawrence, Kansas. He finished his education at the State University of Kansas at Lawrence. He entered as a Sophomore, and remained in the institution for three years. While at Lawrence he commenced to read law with with Barker & Summerfield, and finished his reading with W.A. & B.M. Peck, at Towanda, Pa., and was admitted to the Bradford county bar in the spring of 1873, and admitted to the Luzerne county bar October 28, 1873. In 1879 Mr. Nichols was appointed by the court district attorney of Luzerne county to fill the vacancy caused by the election of Charles E. Rice, then district attorney, to the bench. In the same year he was a candidate for nomination in the republican county convention for the same office, but was defeated by a few votes only. In 1880 he was appointed by Attorney General Palmer a special assistant for Luzerne county. In 1881 he was chairman of the Luzerne county Independents, who refused to support the nominee of the Republican state convention for state treasurer. In 1882 he was the Republican candidate for district attorney, but was defeated at the polls by John McGahren, democrat, the vote standing: Nichols, 9,394, McGahren, 10,358. Mr. Nichols married February 1, 1874, Mary Corker of Norwich, N.Y. She died February 2, 1883. They had the following named children: Florence Edmonda Nichols, Lyman Bennett Nichols, Lester Wilson Nichols and Leona M. Nichols. Mr. Nichols married a second time, July 3, 1883, Almina Wilson of Clifford, Susquehanna county, Pa. They have one child, Francis Marion Nichols.
Mr. Nichols has been a republican ever since he arrived at voting age, but not of the sort who blindly accept whatever is done in the party name as constituting a gospel from which there is no right of appeal. As a consequence he has been in antagonism with the party management, and not in sentiment only, but in
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action. He led the revolt against Cameronism in the beginning of the opposition in the party to the continued domination of the faction whose doctrine or method was expressed in that word. His activity at that time was characterized by all the ardor of youth and firm conviction. He acted as chairman of the Independents, as they were called, for Luzerne county, wrote letters, made speeches and devoted much time and care to the details of organization. A year later, however, he returned to his old allegience, was nominated for district attorney, and since has been equally active and earnest for the regular organization and ticket. He has done much duty upon the stump, being a ready talker and always read up in current politics. During the campaign of 1884, he prepared a lengthy essay upon the tariff and delivered it to a large audience in the court house. It was an able and exhaustive presentation of the subject from his standpoint, which was the essentiality of the protective system as distinguished from the doctrine of incidental protection. As an attorney, Mr. Nichols is well-booked, painstaking and possessed of a happy capacity in pleading to a jury. Though he combines other businesses with his practice he has a considerable clientage and is rated among the most successful of the younger members of the bar.
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