William Nicholson

    William Nicholson was born in Salem County, New Jersey, July 20, 1830. His parents, Isaac and Rebecca (Fogg) Nicholson, natives of Maryland, and New Jersey respectively, were married in Philadelphia, and shortly afterward removed to Salem County, New Jersey, where the father carried on the manufacture of edged tools until a few years prior to his death in 1868. The mother died in 1873.

    William Nicholson is the third son and fourth child in family, and was reared in New Jersey, where he obtained a good education in the schools of his native town. When fifteen years of age, he came to Milton, Wayne County, Indiana, where he learned the blacksmith's trade with his brother John, with whom he remained for three years; returning thence to New Jersey, he followed his trade until 1866, when he began the study of dentistry with his brother George, and one year later purchased the business of his brother. The spring o 1869, he removed to Wilson County, Kansas, and practiced dentistry until in 1875. He then came to Indiana, and opened an office in Xenia, Miami County, where he remained only a short time. Removing to Plainfield, he engaged in his practice there, and in 1878, came to Morgan County and opened an office in Mooresville, where he lived until  June, 1882, when he came to Martinsville, and is at present here engaged very successfully.

    On March 4, 1852, he was married to Emily Sickler, of Salem, new Jersey. They had vie children -William S., Albert A., Harriet E., Anna B. (deceased) and an infant. His wife died August 20,1 866, an active member of the Baptist Church. On May 15, 1868, he married Sallie D. Price, daughter of Jacob and Mary Price, of Salem, New Jersey. They have had four children -Mary D., Harry, Fannie and Frank (deceased). Mr. Nicholson is a member of the K. of H., Mooresville Lodge, No. 997; in politics he is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.

Source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.