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Submitted: 4/29/15 • Approved: 4/29/15 • Last Updated: 5/2/15 • R1072729-G0-S3
11 Jan 1857 - 1930
*Forrest City Times
Art Souvenir-1905-Page 115
Jno.M.Nichols was born July 11,1857, at Raleigh, N.Carolina and is a son of Julius and Mary H.( Ferrell) Nichols. The elder Nichols was a merchant in Raleigh, until shortly after the war, when he moved to near Des Arc, in this state, and engaged in pioneer farming. At the age of 15 years the subject of this sketch began clerking in the general merchandise store of Eddins & Bros., of Byhalia, Mississippi, holding said position for seven years until the fall of 1879, at which time he formed a partnership with George H. Benson under the firm name Benson & Nichols, at Byhalia, and for a long time did a thriving business, but finally got on the wrong side of an erratic cotton market and was compelled to make an assignment. In 1887 Mr. Nichols located in Forrest City and secured employment as salesman and bookkeeper for T.A.Hatcher, where he remained until the dissolution of the firm of Wynne, Dennis & Beck in 1889, when the firm of J.W.Beck & Co. was organized and he took a partnership in the new concern. After several changes, he and Messr. Beck bought out Mr.Wynne, and Mr.Nichols took the position as buyer and outside man for the firm, and Mr.Beck looked after the office affairs and their cotton interests. In addition, Mr.Nichols has been seven years manager of Waters-Pierce Oil Co. for Forrest City and contiguous territory. On April 11,1882, he was married to Miss Lena Pierce of Trenton, Tennessee, but she lived only one year after their union. On January 15,1891, he was married to Miss Addie Bard of Forrest City, a daughter of the lamented and beloved J. H. Bard, at one time agent of the Little Rock & Memphis railroad, and for a long term of years the capable manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co. at this place. Of the latter union two children have been born-Bard and Helen- and these are the prime factors in making one of the happiest homes in the country. Mr.Nichols owns a town residence, and in addition to an interest in some of the most valuable farming lands in conjunction with Mr.Joel Wynne of Memphis.
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