Brief Life History of Anderson Arthur
When Rev Anderson Arthur Nichols was born on 7 April 1849, in Grant District, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States, his father, Alexander Nichols, was 35 and his mother, Henrietta " Harriet" Sommers, was 31. He married Sarah Jane Harrah on 12 March 1868, in Fayette, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He lived in Nicholas, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 2 May 1911, in South Dakota, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Dixie, Nicholas, West Virginia, United States.
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- Anderson Nicholas in household of Alexander Nicholas, "United States Census, 1860"
- Anderson Nichols, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Anderson Author Nichols, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Nichol , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ); see also below.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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