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H M Nichols
H. M. NICHOLS, of Kellersburg, Armstrong county, has been engaged in the
blacksmith business at that place for the last fifteen years, and is now
serving as justice of the peace. He is one of the well-known citizens of the
locality. Mr. Nichols was born in Perry township, Clarion Co., Pa., Sept. 15,
1867, and is a grandson of Asa Nichols, who came to this section from New York
State, settling in Strattonville, Pennsylvania.Isaac N. Nichols, father of H. M. Nichols, was born in New York State, and
was two years old when the family moved to Clarion county. He was a resident
of Perry township for some sixty years, dying there in November, 1911, at the
age of seventy-nine. By trade he was a carpenter, but he also did other kinds
of work. He was married in Perry township to Charity Neff, a native of that
township, daughter of Thomas Neff, and they became the parents of nine
children, of whom H. M. is seventh in the order of birth. He and his brother,
A. L. Nichols, are the only members of the family residing in Armstrong
county. The mother still makes her home in Perry township, Clarion county. She
is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, to which her husband also
belonged, and he was a Republican in politics, but not active in such matters.H. M. Nichols received his education in the common schools of Perry
township, Clarion county. He learned his father�s trade, that of carpenter,
at which he was employed until 1898, when he commenced to do blacksmith work
at Kellersburg. He acquired his knowledge of the trade under L. J. Wolf who
was well known as a justice of the peace here also. Mr. Nichols succeeded Mr.
Wolf in the blacksmith business, buying his present property in October, 1898,
and he has not only held the old patrons but continued to develop the trade
steadily. He does blacksmithing and general repair work. He has one and a half
acres of land, on which he built his comfortable residence in 1904. For one
year Mr. Nichols was assistant mail carrier on the Mahoning R. F. D. route No.
I. In November, 1911, he was elected justice of the peace for Madison
township, the duties of which office he discharges with characteristic ability
and due regard for his obligations to his fellow citizens.In September, 1888, Mr. Nichols married Cora E. Moorhead, daughter of J. W.
Moorhead, an old settler of Armstrong county, and they have two living
children, Velma E. and Mary Bell. Four children died in infancy. Mr. Nichols
holds membership in Lodge No. 1139, I.O.O.F., of Widnoon, Pa. Since 1898 he
has been a member of the M. E. Church at Kellersburg, which he has served
faithfully as an official. In political connection he has always been a
Republican.Source: Page 768 Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed September 1998 by Kathy Zagorac for the Armstrong County Beers
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