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CHARLES
BYRON NICHOLS
NICHOLS,
CHARLES BYRON, Physician and Surgeon, Los Angeles,
Cal., was born at Enfield, N.H.,
June 30, 1847, the son of Humphrey Nichols and Matilda (Jones) Nichols. He is
of American ancestry dating back nearly two centuries. He married Lizy Mattocks (now deceased), at Hanover, N.H.,
in December, 1871. They had one son, William Mattocks Nichols, who died in
1905. In March, 1895, at Denver,
Colo., Dr. Nichols married Mrs. Linnie B. Shy.
Dr.
Nichols began his education in the public and high schools of Enfield,
then entered Kimball Union Academy,
at Meriden, N.H., where he remained until 1863. In
October, 1864, he was made Acting Third Assistant Engineer, U.S.N., and
participated in the Atlantic Blockade, the battle of Fort Fisher
and several lesser affairs. At the close of the war he made a trip around the
world on board the U.S.S. Shenandoah. He continued in the Navy, visiting many
of the famous cities of the Old World during
the cruise of the Shenandoah. In 1869 he was honorably discharged, at Boston, and entered Dartmouth University,
graduating in Nov., 1871, with the degree of M.D.
In
1898 Dr. Nichols entered the Army for service in the Spanish-American War,
served two years as Post Surgeon at Fort
Wingate, N.M., and
then went to the Philippine Islands. He was promoted to a Captaincy, later
became Major, and handled a serious cholera epidemic in the Province of Tarlac.
Locating
in Los Angeles
in 1903, Dr. Nichols has been there since, and is a member of the L.A.County Med. Ass’n., Sou. Cal.
Med. Soc., L.A. Clinical and Pathological Soc., and the American Med. Ass’n. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, Knight Templar, Shriner, and a member of the University Club.
Transcribed 5-5-11
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 669, International News Service, New York, Chicago,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2011 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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