Brief Life History of William Clyde
When William Clyde Nichols was born on 27 March 1893, in Brownsville, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, his father, William Edward Nichols, was 38 and his mother, Martha Bardin, was 24. He married Alice Dovie Crenshaw in 1923. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Beat 2, Hinds, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 25 March 1972, in Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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- William C Nichols, "United States Census, 1930"
- William C Nichols, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- William Clyde Nichols in entry for Nichols, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1914 · Steamboat Service Established with New York
Satilla was the first Deepwater Steamship to arrive at the port of Houston. This accomplishment successfully established a steamboat service between Houston and New York City.
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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