Sacramento County
Biographies
WILLIAM H. NICHOLS
WILLIAM H. NICHOLS, of Folsom, was born
in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
July 16, 1848. In 1856 the family removed to New York city, and lived
there five years, and then came to Placer County, in this State, and soon
afterward to Folsom, where William H. was engaged by the Sacramento Valley Railroad
Company, headed by L. M. and J. P. Robinson. He was in their employ twenty
years. Since then he has followed blacksmithing and draying. In his
shop he employs four men, one wagon-maker and three horse-shoers. Eli
L. Nichols, father of William, was also born in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, and died in Folsom April 6,
1888; and his mother, Lucy N., was fifty-six years of age when she died, in
March, 1881, also in Folsom. August 21, 1869, Mr. Nichols, the subject of
this paragraph, married Christina Wagner, a native of Pennsylvania. The
names of their seven children are, Lena W., Willie,
Charlie, Maud, Lawrence, Bertie and Minnie.
Transcribed 8-30-07
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated
History of Sacramento County, California. Pages 621-622.
Lewis Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Marilyn R. Pankey.