BIOGRAPHIES

Source:
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of
COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO 1764-1876
by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers
1876

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C. C. NICHOLS, son of Eli Nichols, of New Castle township, died in hospital at Clifton, Tennessee, Jan. 14, 1865.  He was forty-two years of age, and held the rank of captain in the 183d regiment of Ohio volunteers.  His remains were finally placed in the home cemetery.  "He was," says a friend, "the child of ups and downs."  He was present at the first sack of Lawrence, Kansas, and gave his aid in making that state a free state.  He afterward spent some time in Colorado, and took an interest in laying out St. Charles, which afterward became Denver City.  He undertook the opening of an expensive gulch, and spent all he had on it, without avail.  In the fall of 1863, he entered the military service, continuing therein till his death. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO - 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers - 1876 - Page 257

ELI NICHOLS was for forty years a well-known citizen of Coshocton county.  He was for many years, ending with his death, the largest land-owner in the county, being in occupancy of the quarter township of New Castle, now held by his son, Lloyd Nichols.  He came from Belmont county, Ohio.      His death occurred at his home, after an illness of only two days.  His age was seventy-two years.  His wife preceded him to the grave but a few months.      His interest in education, and especially his attachment to the public-school system, was often avowed.      He was born and reared in the Quaker church, but in after years disavowed the religious principles of that body, and repudiated the Bible as an infallible book.  In early manhood, he took an active part in the operations of the Colonization Society, but soon abandoned it, and henceforward gloried in being an "Abolitionist."      His gentleness of nature made him patient amid whatever reproach he encountered in this, as in other lines of thought and action; and it is claimed for him that, whatever his antipathy to the system of slavery, and his sympathy with the oppressed, he was always wonderfully lenient toward the slave-holder.      In his later years, he became much interested in "Spiritualism" and much of his time in his declining years was given to study of this, and he became a full believer in it, continuing in this faith unto the last of earth. Source: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of COSHOCTON COUNTY, OHIO - 1764-1876 by William E. Hunt. - Publ. Cincinnati - Robert Clarke & Co., Printers - 1876 - Page 247