Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1895 — REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLSON.

Biographical Sketch of the Author of the Famous Temperance Bill, Representative Nicholson is thirtytwo years old. He was born in Bartholomew county. He was brought up on a farm and educated at Sand Creek Seminary, a Quaker academy, near Elizabethtown. He was oraduated at Earlham College in 1885. He became principal of Sanderfcek Seminary. Afterward he taught school two years id Azalia, neighboring town. He moved t. Howard county in 1890, and was jirincipal of the New London Ilioh School. He bought the Russiaville Observer, and two years later became owner of the Kokomo Times,

which took a prominent part on the law and order side in’ilie last Kokomo town election. At present he is in the real estate business at Kokomo. He has been in politics before, lie was a candidate for Representative in Bartholomew county in 1888. and ran ahead of his ticket. In 1890 he was on the Bartholomew county Republican central committee. He was elected to the present Legislature by a majority of more than 2,000. He is a birthright member of the Frinds church and an ordained minister. He preaches almost every Sunday, although he has never ac cepted a pastorate. He is married and has two children

REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLSON.