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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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806 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
owns a boat 10x 24 feet, and five small boats,
all of which he himself built.
He was married in Ohio, to Miss Margaret
J. McCloud, a native of that State, and they
have three children living, namely: Mary M.,
now the wife of Charles Crowell; Sarah M.,
now Mrs. William Ellington, and Susie E., who
married Samuel Slicer.
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L. NICHOLS.—In the list of Chico business houses the hardware establishment
? of A. L. Nichols holds a leading place,
both in the volume of the business transacted
and in the character of the stock and arrangements. The honse was founded five years ago
by Mr. Nichols, and since that time the business of the establishment has known constant
increase and enlargement. The size of the
premises is 86 x 360 feet, of which the stores,
two in number, occupy 66x 120 feet, and the
yards and other buildings the remainder. The
stock is unusually well kept and arranged,
everything having its proper place and _position. Mr. Nichols handles the leading articles,
such as plows, barbed wire, wagons, nails, blacksmith coal, etc., in car-load lots, thus effecting a
large saving and enabling him to make prices
that compete snecessfully with the wholesale
houses in Sacramento and elsewhere. As a
consequence of this he commands a part of the
trade of Stanford’s great Vina ranch and other
large farmers of Butte County. He is also the
agent. for the celebrated Oliver plow, Cassiday
gang plow, etc., and the best makes generally of
tools and implements, handling also sewer pipe,
terra cotta work and similar articles.
A. L. Nichols was born in Maine, August 9,
1849, and is the son of Dr. H. L. Nichols, of
Sacramento, who is well known for his prominence in matters political as well as professional. When be was five years old the family removed to California, settling in Sacramento,
and there he was brought up and received his
education. In 1871 he entered the employment
of Huntington, Hopkins & Co., in Sacramento,
remaining with them fourteen years, during the
latter ten years of which he was one of their
trusted salesmen and travelers, visiting in that
position all parts of the State. June 1, 1885,
he set out for himself, by establishing this business in Chico. The success which has attended
him in this venture is not surprising, as he is
not only a thorough and capable business man,
intimately acquainted with every branch of the
hardware trade; but is an energetic und enterprising citizen, public-spirited and popular with
every class.
He is a Major in the State Militia, holding «
position as Staff Officer under General Montgomery, who is in command of the National
Guard for the Northern District of California.
A. WRENN, M. D., physician and surgeon at Placerville, was born at Weet? field, Hamilton County, August 23, 1844,
where he was reared and attended the public
schools. Later he took a course of one year’s
study in the high school of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and would have entered the University the
following year, but on account of the disability
of his brother he was compelled to return huime,
thereby losing the opportunity of prosecuting
his collegiate studies. He began reading medicine at Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana,
in the oftice of Daniel Cary, in 1869; took his
first course of lectures in the medical department of the University of Michigan in 187071; later he took two courses in the Medical
College of Ohio, at which institution he graduated,and afterward entered the Bellevue Hospital
Medical College of New York City. After
completing a course there he returned to Cincinnati, where he practiced his profession with
merited success for many years.
He visited California in 1881. After # short
residence in the Golden State he returned East,
with the intention of remaining but a short
time, but circumstances detained him for sev-