1828–1876

Introduction

Born: Cir­ca 1828, Ire­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 6, 1876, Wash­ing­ton, DC.

Buried: Mount Mo­ri­ah Ce­me­te­ry, Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia.

Biography

Nicholson emi­grat­ed to Am­eri­ca around age 25.

He lived in Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia, for al­most two de­cades, and was a mem­ber of the Whar­ton Street Me­tho­dist Epis­co­pal Church (Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick was there at the same time).

Around 1871, he moved to Wash­ing­ton, DC, and worked as a clerk in the Post Off­ice De­part­ment.

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