When Edward Lawson Nicholson was born on 9 August 1870, in Fannin, Texas, United States, his father, Captain Andrew Jackson Nicholson Sr, was 43 and his mother, Theresa Catherine Parrish, was 38. He married Bettie Jane Gossett on 8 November 1897, in Fannin, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 5, Fannin, Texas, United States for about 20 years. He died on 12 January 1901, in Fannin, Texas, United States, at the age of 30, and was buried in Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
English (northern) and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Nic(h)olas or the vernacular form Nic(h)ol + son; see Nichol , Nicholas . In Scotland the name was sometimes substituted for McNichol .
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Nicolaisen or Nikolaisen , or of the Swedish cognate Niklasson, patronymics from equivalents of the personal name Nicholas .
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