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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 6 November 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Salem Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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SAMUEL REED NICKERSON. The subject of this sketch was born in the eastern part of Clinton Co., Ohio, on the 14th day of June, 1823. His father Artemas Nickerson was born in Putnam Co., N. Y., in 1796, and emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1805, landing at Lebanon this county on the 4th of July of that year, and finally settling on the banks of Todd's Fork, in what was then a part of Warren County. His mother Elizabeth Reed was born in Bourbon Co., Ky., in the year 1798. and emigrated with her parents to the eastern part of Clinton County in 1811. The subject of this sketch lived with his parents and labors on the farm, receiving only a slight education, such as the pioneer was able to give until the winter of 1844-45, when he attended an Academy at Waynesville, in this county, returning to his occupation as a farmer until the year 1846, when he married a Miss Humphrey, the daughter of James Humphrey, another of the pioneers of Warren County, who emigrated to this county from the State of New Jersey in 1815. Soon after Nickerson was married, he settled on a farm two miles south of Wilmington in Clinton County, where he had reared him a cabin in a dense forest, where he remained until the year 1850, when he removed to Wilmington, following different occupations until 1860, when he, in company with L. C. Walker, now one of the Judges of the Superior Courts of Indianapolis, Ind., I. W. Quinby, late a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and John H. Kirk, a member of the Clinton County bar, was admitted to the practice of law in August, 1862. He entered the army as a private in Company C, of the 79th O. V. I., and was discharged from the service in February, 1864, by reason of a broken arm received while in said service. In April, 1864, he removed to Blanchester, Clinton Co., Ohio, where he entered into the practice of law until the 1st of March, 1870, when he commenced editing the Blanchester Herald, a paper which he and his two sons started at that time selling out the office to James L. Turk in October, 1871. In 1873, being compelled to take possession of the printing office again, removed the material to Sabina, Ohio, where, with his son, A. R. S., he commenced the publication of the Sabina Telegram which he continued to edit until in the year 1875, when they sold out to one E. E. Man, who also failed to pay for the office, thus compelling him again to resume the editorial chair, this time as editor of the Morrow Telegram which he commenced December, 1876, and continued to manage until the 1st of January, 1882, when they sold the office and good will to Wm. H. Sanders, of the Sabina News, and who this time clinched the trade by paying for the same at the time of taking possession. |
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