James M. Nichol and Maria Mell

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Husband James M. Nichol ¹

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           Born: 28 May 1824 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 1
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         Father: Hugh Nichol (1802-1862) 2
         Mother: Sarah King McCoy (1810-1870) 3 4

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       Marriage: 9 Oct 1857 1

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Wife Maria Mell ¹

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           Born:  - near Canfield, Mahoning Co, OH
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         Father: John Mell (      -1882) 1
         Mother: Mary Magdalena Kiel (      -1887) 1

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Children

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1 F Lily Nichol ¹

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         Spouse: Frank Heber (      -Bef 1915) 1

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2 M Alexander Nichol ¹

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3 F Amelia Nichol ¹

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         Spouse: John Deer (      -Bef 1915) 1

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4 F Violet Nichol ¹

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         Spouse: David K. West (      -      ) 1

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5 M Otto Nichol ¹

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6 F Edith Nichol ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James M. Nichol

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In early life he worked on the farm which he helped to clear and prepare for the fertile fields that followed. His education was obtained in the "Clever" District School, which was then a subscription school. After his father's death, James M. assumed the management of the farm, so continuing until his mother's death, when the farm was divided, James M. receiving eighty acres as his share. He acquired considerable land in the neighborhood and became one of the wealthy men of his township. He built a brick residence on his wife's inheritance of two hundred acres in 1894, and continued the management of his properties. He was a republican in politics, and with his family communed with the Presbyterian Church, his forebears McCoy and Nichol, originally Covenanters and Presbyterians.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 520.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 519.

3 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 395.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 519, 523.