George T. Nichols and Mary C. Doty

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Husband George T. Nichols ¹

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           Born: 12 Nov 1845 - Clarion Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1902
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: James C. Nichols (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Frances McDermitt (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1870 3

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Wife Mary C. Doty ³

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           Born: 1844
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           Died: 1920
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2

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         Father: Joseph Doty (1811-1881) 4 5
         Mother: Eleanor Borland (      -Aft 1890) 5

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1 M Harry Nichols ³

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2 F Josephine Nichols ³

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3 M George Nichols ³

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4 F Gertrude Nichols ³

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5 F Bessie Nichols ³

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General Notes: Husband - George T. Nichols

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He received a common school education before the year 1860, when he began clerking in the drug store of J. G. Hammar at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. After three years of diligent application to the duties as­signed him in this business he began moving from place to place, which afforded him a varied and beneficial experience in dispensing drugs to dif­ferent classes of people, until 1864, when he came to Oil City and accepted employment in the store of M. L. Porterfield, one of the earliest physicians and druggists of Oil City. Within a brief period he changed to the employ of John A. Christy, whose business was in the Third ward, and in 1865 took full charge of the drug store of Christy, Phillips & Company, located on Ferry street, South Oil City. In 1868 he purchased Christy's one-third in­terest in the firm, the name was changed to Phillips, Vanausdall & Company, and Mr. Nichols was assigned to the management of the business until 1877, when he bought out Phillips and two years later became sole owner. The firm of Phillips, Vanausdall & Company started a branch store where our subject is now located in 1870, and this also fell into the possession of Mr. Nichols in 1879. In 1883 he, after mature deliberation, concluded to consolidate the two stores, consequently the stock of drugs was transferred from the original to the branch store-room on State street, which he had previously enlarged, and where he has since remained, doing a continually increasing business in the line of drugs, patent medicines, oils, window glass, wall paper, etc. He carries a stock valued at from six to eight thousand dollars, which together with the ample building and ground upon which it is located, is the reward of his individual labors and careful and frugal deal­ing.
Mr. Nichols was the second treasurer of Venango borough, and has represented the Sixth ward in the city council for five years. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., K. O. T. M., K. of H., and Royal Arcanum, and is a Republican. [HVC 1890, 869]

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 869.

2 Various, Grove Hill Cemetery Transcription (Oil City, PA: Privately published, ~1985).

3 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 870.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 541.

5 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 868.