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A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II -
by G. Frederick Wright
1916
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ALLEN MASON NICHOLS.
That farming can be conducted as a successful
business in the same class as store or factory need
no other proof than a visit to the excellent estate
of Allen Mason Nichols, situated in Eaton
Township. Mr. Nichols has a reputation
in Lorain County as a progressive farmer and a
skillful dairyman and is now vice president of the
Lorain County Dairymen's Association.
His farm comprises 160 acres on Center Road one
mile north of Eaton Center, and it has always been a
matter of pride with him to maintain the highest
standards as an agriculturist.
The farm where he now lives and which he owns was also
his birth-place. He first saw the light of day in a
log house Jan. 27, 1858. His parents were
Mason E, and Joan (Mead) Nichols. His
father was born at Crown Point, Essex County, New
York, Feb. 26, 1830, and while still a boy went with
his parents Andrew and Mrs. (Haven) Nichols
to Shalersville Township in Portage County, Ohio,
where his parents bought land, improved a farm, and
spent the rest of their days. There he
grew to manhood and at the age of nineteen, desiring
to get married, he bought his time from his father
for $75. He was married in Freedom Township of
Portage County to Miss Joan Mead, and soon
afterward came to Lorain County, where some of his
Havens relatives had previously located.
For $12 an acre he bought eighty acres of land still
included in the Nichols homestead
occupied by his son Allen. Only about
six acres of this was cleared at the time.
Mason Nichols was a very industrious man
and a good manager, and from time to time purchased
other land until he had accumulated an estate of 421
acres in one body. Among other improvements
there arose a substantial frame house in 1860, and
there were also several barns, the largest of which
was burned in 1867. It was about that time
that his first wife, Joan, died, being
survived by four children. Arthur, the
oldest, who became a well known lawyer in Elyria and
died Dec. 26, 1886, married Nettie Squiers of
Elyria and is survived by one child, Mason.
The second of the four children is Allen Mason.
Celia J., the only daughter, died in
Cleveland as the wife of F. H. Jackson.
The youngest, John D., owned and occupied a
farm in Nelson Township of Portage County for a few
years, afterwards became manager of the Bell Vernon
Creamery at Garrettsville, and then became assistant
manager of the Cleveland plant of this creamery
concern, remaining about ten years, and is now
connected with the Schneider Becker Dairy
Company of Cleveland. lie was at one time president
of an United States Dairymen's Association. By
his marriage to Adel Felt of Eaton
Township he had two children, Paris and
Lula. For his second wife Mason E. Nichols
married Mahala Cousins of Dover, Cuyahoga
County. The only child of this marriage died
quite young. Mason Nichols was a
republican in politics, served as a trustee of Eaton
Township, was a member of the Disciples Church, and
his death occurred in 1883.
While growing up on the old farm Allen M. Nichols
acquired a good country school education. At
the age of eighteen his father removed to Elyria and
he continued his schooling there and at Berea.
He then began working out, and for a time was
employed in a cheese factory at Eaton Center.
On Mar. 29, 1882, in Hiram, Portage County, Mr.
Nichols married Miss Frances D. Gage, who
was born on a farm in Freedom Township, Portage
County, Jan. 7, 1861, a daughter of Martin B. and
Mandana (Hart) Gage, her father being a native
of Portage County and her mother a native of
Michigan. Mrs. Nichols was reared in
Hiram Township and had a common school education.
To their marriage have been born seven children. Bessie
D. is the wife of O. V. Hudson of Akron,
and they have had three children, but a son, named
Paul V., is the only one living.
Louis G., who lives on a farm in Eaton Township,
married Metta Sayers and has one child named
Ethel F. Arthur A. is an employe
of the Big Four Railway Company. Martin E.
is a motorman on the Green Line. Ralph A.
is a clerk in a hardware store at Akron.
Olive M. is the wife of Edward Bainbridge.
Paul C. lives at home and assists his father
in the management of the farm and dairy.
Mr. Nichols is a stanch republican, and for
twenty years has served his township as assessor and
was reelected for another term in 1915. He was
elected trustee in 1896, and in 1915 was again
chosen for that responsibility. In the way of
public improvements he has always favored the
construction and maintenance of good highways.
He has also a tended various county conventions as a
delegate, and wherever possible has manifested his
influence in behalf of improvement and progress.
In 1916 he was appointed vice president for Eaton
Township of the Lorain County Dairymen's
Association, and since taking the office has
succeeded in adding 167 to the membership of the
association in his own township. For
twenty-two years Mr. Nichols has been
a member of the Knights of the Maccabees in Eaton
Center, has filled all the chairs in the local
organization and has represented them in the Grand
Lodge. There are many things about his farm
which indicate his stand for improvement. In
1899 he put down a gas well 800 feet, has thoroughly
tiled his land, and a few years ao he put up a silo
14x16 feet with a capacity of 150 tons.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick
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BRYAN GERALD NICHOLS.
For more than thirty years Byron Gerald Nichols
has been identified with the business interests of
Lorain, first as a successful merchant and more
recently as an operator in real estate and
insurance. His connections are so numerous and
important, however, that it would be difficult to
find a field to which his activities have not led
him, and each of his various ventures has been
brought to a success through the exercise of his
fine abilities. His business talents have
always been used to further the interests of the
city, and as a member of the Lorain City Council for
five years he contributed materially to civic
improvement and advancement.
Mr. Nichols is a native son of Lorain, and was
born Oct. 12, 1864, his parents being John and
Deborah (Lowe) Nichols. The parents came
to Lorain County in 1857, settling in the vicinity
of Lorain, on a farm, and here the father continued
to be engaged in agricultural pursuits during the
remaining years of his life, and passed away Nov. 1,
1878. He was one of the substantial, practical
farmers of his locality, was a man of the highest
honor and integrity, and won and held the entire
confidence of the people of his community.
Mrs. Nichols survived him for a long
period, and passed away at the old home, May 15,
1899.
The public schools of Lorain furnished Byron Gerald
Nichols with his early education, following
which he enrolled as a student at Baldwin
University, at Berea, Ohio, from which institution
he was duly graduated in 1883. Thus equipped,
Mr. Nichols entered business life at Lorain,
establishing himself as the proprietor of a general
merchandise establishment, of which he continued to
be the head for a period of twelve years. In
the meantime he had at various times invested in
realty holdings, and his interests in this direction
grew so extensively that he decided to give more of
his attention to the real estate business. He
accordingly disposed of his holding in the store,
which he had built up to large proportions, and
opened an office as a dealer in real estate, loans,
insurance, etc., in which field of endeavor he has
steadily advanced to a foremost position among the
business men of Lorain. Mr. Nichols
has been connected with various transactions of
large magnitude, and his great capacity and thorough
knowledge of values, coupled with many years of
business association with capitalists and men of
affairs, render him a valued medium for the carrying
through of real estate deals. Mr.
Nichols' abilities have been recognized and
appreciated by his associates at Lorain, and his
connection with enterprises of an important
character are many, including directorships in the
Lorain Banking Company, the Black River Telephone
Company, the Lorain Glove Company and the Lorain
Casting Company. He is a member and steward of
the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lorain.
Mr. Nichols' first political office
was that of township clerk, in which capacity he
served very acceptably for two years. He was
then sent to the Lorain City Council, where he
served five years, and while a member of that body
served on the finance and other important
committees,
Mr. Nichols was married Nov. 20, 1884, at New
London, Ohio, to Miss Elizabeth Brightman,
daughter of P. B. Brightman, who is engaged
in agricultural pursuits in Huron County, and a
member of a family that has been well known and
prominent in Ohio for many years. Three
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Nichols;
Howard Kent, who graduated in June,
1914, from Western Reserve University, and is now
associated with his father in the real estate
business. He was married Sept. 10, 1915, to
Miss Gladys White, a daughter of
John F. and Mae (Reed) White, of Cleveland,
Ohio, Enid Lucretia and Millicent
Deborah reside with their parents.
Personally, Mr. Nichols' manner and
bearing are those of the brainy, successful business
man, and he thus possesses peculiar advantages for
his chosen vocation. His friends are as
numerous as his acquaintances, and his career in the
real estate history of Lorain County is no doubt
destined to continue as a brilliant one.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick
Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 655 |
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CHARLES A. NICHOLS.
He whose name introduces this paragraph is a native
son of Lorain County and is a scion of staunch
English stock, his paternal grandparents having come
from England to establish a home in America somewhat
more than eighty years ago. He has been a
resident of Lorain County from the time of his
nativity and is now engaged in the real estate and
insurance business as one of the representative
exponents of these lines of enterprise in the City
of Lorain.
Charles Arthur Nichols was born in Black River
Township, Lorain County, Ohio, on the 2d of
February, 1870, and is a son of John J. and
Deborah (Chase) Nichols, concerning whom more
specific mention is made on other pages of this
work. In the public schools of Lorain County
Mr. Nichols acquired his early educational
training, and in the meanwhile he gained effective
discipline in connection with the operations of his
father's farm. As a youth he became a clerk in
a grocery store in the City of Lorain, and after he
had gained a thorough knowledge of the details of
this line of enterprise he engaged in the retail
grocery business in an independent way, as a member
of the firm of Nichols & Gawn, in
which his coadjutor was Harry B. Gawn.
This alliance continued eight years, and since that
time Mr. Nichols has been engaged in
the real estate and insurance business in Lorain,
where he has built up a substantial and
representative enterprise in these important lines
and where he gives special attention to the handling
of city property.
Mr. Nichols is a progressive business man and
alert and public-spirited citizen of his native
county, where he takes lively interest in all things
that tend to advance civic and material prosperity.
His political allegiance is given to the republican
party, and he is affiliated with the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows and with the Tribe of Ben Hur.
On the 26th of December, 1892, was solemnized the
marriage of Mr. Nichols to Miss Hattie
Burtis, a native of New York State, and they
have sis children, namely: Lucille, John
Raymond, James Burtis, Nina
May, Charles Arthur, Jr., and
Virginia.
Source: A Standard History
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JOHN J. NICHOLS.
It was given to the late John J. Nichols to
become one of the representative agriculturists and
stock-growers of Lorain County, and he was a child
at the time when the family home was established in
Ohio. He was born at Elzing, Norfolkshire,
England, and was a son of John and
Elizabeth (Dent) Nichols, the former of whom was
born and reared at Elzing and the latter of whom was
born at Castle Acre, England, a daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth (Titeringim)
Dent, John Nichols was born in
the year 1800 and bore the full patronymic of his
father, John Nichols, Sr. John and
Elizabeth (Dent) Nichols came to America in the
year 1835, and their voyage across the Atlantic was
made on a sailing vessel of the type common to that
period, six weeks and one day elapsed ere they
disembarked in the port of New York City, whence
they soon afterward continued their westward journey
and established their home on a pioneer farm near
Sandusky, Ohio, the remainder of their lives having
been passed in Erie County. Of their eleven
children five were born in England, and the other
six claimed the United States as their place of
nativity.
John J, Nichols was a child at the time of the
family immigration to the United States and he was
reared to adult age on the pioneer farm of his
father in Erie County, Ohio, where his early
education was obtained in the common schools of the
period. He continued his active association
with agricultural enterprise in Erie County until
about the year 1855, when he came to Lorain County
and instituted the development of a farm in Black
River Township, where he engaged also in the
manufacture of brick. He became one of the
representative men of the township and here both he
and his wife passed the residue of their lives, as
prominent and honored citizens of Lorain County.
They were pioneer members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Lorain County and were zealous members of
the First Methodist Church of Lorain for many years.
The marriage of Mr. Nichols to Miss Martha
Elwood was solemnized in Erie County, and they
became the parents of three children. After
the death of his first wife Mr. Nichols
wedded Miss Deborah W. Lowe, daughter of
Stephen and Rebecca Lowe, and she survived him
by a number of years.
Concerning the children of Mr. and Mrs. Nichols
the following brief data are given: Ezra C.
married Miss Ella Thomas; Violet E.
became the wife of William E. Lowe; Elmina
died in infancy; Byron G. is individually
mentioned on other pages of this publication;
Charles A. is likewise the subject of a specific
sketch in this work; J. Bert married Miss
Jennie Ramsdell; Erwin H. first married
Miss Ida M. Hicks and after her death wedded
Miss Eva Bryant; and Miss Grace E. is a
popular teacher in the public schools of Lorain
County.
Of the eleven children of John and Elizabeth (Dent)
Nichols the five who were born prior to the
family immigration to the United States were
Thomas, Mary, Susan, John J. and Ann, and
the names of those who were born in Erie County,
Ohio, were as here noted: George, William,
Samuel, Elizabeth, Delia and Benjamin.
Source: A Standard History
of Lorain County, Ohio - Vol. II by G. Frederick
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HANS P. NIELSEN.
In the person of Hans P. Nielsen, the City of
Lorain has a citizen who has contributed to its
upbuilding a conservative and reliable jewelry
business, whose abilities have been solicited in the
management and direction of a number of other
enterprises, and whose talents have been utilized in
serving the interests of the city in various
positions of trust and importance. When he
first came to this country Mr. Nielsen's
assets consisted principally of ambition and
determination and a thorough knowledge of an
honorable and useful trade; with these as a
foundation he has built up a structure of success
that entitles him to a place of honor among the
substantial men of his adopted city.
Mr. Nielsen was born June 1, 1851, in Demark,
and is a son of Jonathan and Christina Nielsen.
He received his education in the public schools and
his first experience was in the store of his father,
who was a jeweler, and under whom he learned the
trade, which included that of silversmith, as well
as watch repairing. He worked in his native
land until 1873, when he emigrated to the United
States, first locating at Cleveland, Ohio, where he
remained for four years, and then coming to Lorain,
where he established himself in business as a
watchmaker. His first store was a modest one,
with a small line, but his skill, fidelity and
courtesy attracted custom to its door, and as
business grew he found it necessary to enlarge his
quarters. Each year found him adding to his
stock and equipment until he finally built his
present store, a three story structure, 30x100 feet,
with the two upper floors devoted to apartments and
the main floor occupied by his jewelry business and
salesroom. Here he has a full and up-to-date
stock of all kinds of watches, jewelry, diamonds and
other precious stones, silverware, cut glass, etc.,
catering to the most representative trade in the
city. The abilities that developed this
business have not been allowed to remain tied up in
it, for Mr. Nielsen has found the time and
the energy to devote to other matters, of both a
business and public character, and at the present
time is a director of the Lorain Banking Company and
secretary of the Citizens Home Savings Association,
having held the latter office for a period of
twenty-five years. Always a sincere and
helpful friend of education, he is at this time vice
president of the Lorain Board of Education and
chairman of the new high school building committee.
He was formerly a trustee of the Lorain Water Works
and for five years was customs officer of the port
of Lorain. His public life has been
characterized by faithful performance of duty and
the accomplishment of many benefits for the city of
his adoption. Fraternally, Mr.
Nielsen is affiliated with the local lodge of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he
has many friends.
On Oct. 4, 1875, Mr. Nielsen was married to
Miss Mikoline Mikkelsen, also a native of
Denmark, and to this union their have been born
eight children: Christina, who is the
wife of Clarence Hitchcock, who is engaged in
the insurance business at Lorain; Jonathan,
who learned the jewelry business under his father
and is now the proprietor of an establishment at
Newcastle, Pennsylvania, and one of the successful
business men of that place; Anna, who is the
wife of E. M. Timms, a marine engineer of
Lorain; Gyde, who is the wife of Bert
Boyes, a machinist of Lorain; Harry and
Walter, bright and energetic young business men
of Lorain, who are associated with their father in
the jewelry business; Mildred, who is single
and resides with her parents; and Florence,
who is the wife of Frank Schworer, a
carpenter of Lorain. Mr. Nielsen and
his family are members of the Lutheran Church.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio -
Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page
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David J. Nye |
HON. DAVID J. NYE.
Through the last and most active forty years of his
life during which he followed a constant,
conservative and dignified career as lawyer, jurist
and business man, David J. Nye has gained an
eminence which probably has been surpassed by none
and excelled by few in this community.
His rise from the lowly farmer's son to that of one of
the foremost lawyers of the state, and one of the
leaders in the civic and business life of Northern
Ohio, was far from meteorical. It was
accomplished only after years of close application
and hard and consistent efforts in his chosen
profession.
While the early years of his life are not of important
historical note, yet they were busy ones and served
to make up that formative period when boys of that
age create for themselves their ideals of life, and
form those conceptions which direct their footsteps
in after years.
It was during this period that Mr. Nye conceived
the idea of following the law as a profession and he
formed his ideals of all that this profession stood
for and demanded. With these ideals firmly
fixed in his mind, he clung to them, and each step
in his life was in furtherance of his aim to attain
to the heights on which his desires were set.
No matter what the endeavor cost him in work or
denials, no matter what the sacrifice might be, he
faced all in his hard struggle to reach his destined
goal.
Born at Ellicott, Chautauqua County, New York, Dec. 8,
1843, he was a son of Curtis F. and Susan
Jerusha (Walkup) Nye. While his parents
were of sturdy Vermont stock; is paternal ancestors
trace their lineage to Benjamin Nye, the
original founder of the Nye family in
America. He was among the foremost of
those early English pioneers who cast his lot with
those who strove and struggled that a new nation
might be born. Benjamin Nye and
Katherine Tupper, who afterward became his wife,
landed on the shores of New England in 1634 and made
their home in Sandwich, Massachusetts, where they
reared a family which has ever grown and prospered.
A few years ago the descendants of Benjamin Nye
in this country, founded what is known as the Nye
Family of America Association and Judge Nye
was one of the prime movers in its organization and
served as its president for two years.
The parents of Judge Nye, five years after the
birth of their son David, moved from their
farm at Ellicott to Otto, Cattaraugus county, New
York, where they again took up the tillage of the
soil and remained there until their death.
During these years, Young Nye's work on his
father's farm was interrupted only by a few months
during the winter, with his attendance at the
district school of his neighborhood.
Denied the privilege of serving his country during the
great Civil conflict because of parental objections,
two other brothers having enlisted, Mr. Nye
turned his attention and concentrated his energies
on his preparation for the future. He left his
home and matriculated at Randolph (New York) Academy
in 1862 and spent the following winter in teaching
school. The succeeding year he spent in
practically the same manner. From that time
forward, such time as was not occupied with teaching
school, was spent in working on the farm for the
purpose of accumulating a stipend to be used in
further pursuit of learning.
Coming to Oberlin in the spring of 1866, he entered the
preparatory department and a year later became a
member of the freshman class of Oberlin College.
Although his studies were interrupted by the
necessity of teaching during the vacation, and doing
other work during school terms, he received his
degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1871. The degree
of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by the
college in 1883. In his final year at Oberlin
he also occupied the position of superintendent of
the Public Schools at Milan, Ohio, and at the
solicitation of the board of education, taught there
another year after his graduation.
While in Oberlin and also at Milan, he devoted his
spare time to laying a foundation for the law so
that in August, 1872, he successfully passed the
requirements for admission and was admitted to the
bar at Elyria, Ohio. The same year he went to
Emporia, Kansas, with a view to locating there and
growing up in what was then a new country. But
finding this location not suited to this tastes he
returned to Elyria and took up the practice of law
in earnest, associating himself with John C. Hale,
who later became one of the leaders of the Cleveland
bar, and a most worthy judge of the Circuit Court.
A year later he opened his own office for the practice
of law, which he retained continuously until he went
upon the Common Pleas bench in 1892. From 1881
to 1884, however, he served a creditable term as
prosecuting attorney of Lorain County. At
various times during his private practice in Elyria,
he served as county school examiner, member of the
city board of education and member of the city
council.
With the unanimous approval of the members of the
Lorain County bar, Mr. Nye's name was placed
in nomination for judge of Common Pleas bench for
the district composed of Lorain, Medina and Summit
counties, at the judicial convention held at Medina
in July, 1891. In the following November he
was elected by a handsome majority and took his seat
in February, 1892. Toward the close of his
term, he received the nomination by acclamation for
a second term and was re-elected for another five
years.
Judge Nye's record on the bench is distinctly
unique, both in the character and the amount of work
which was accomplished. Taking the position at
a time when the court docket was literally clogged
with old cases, he set his energies at once to a
clearing away of this accumulation of cases.
He made it a rule that the attorneys should try
their cases as they appeared on the assignment and
the oldest cases were brought forward and disposed
of with as great rapidity as justice would permit.
After ten years of the most arduous and exacting
labor, which for a time impaired his health,
Judge Nye as a heritage to his successor, a
practically up-to-date assignment with scarcely a
case on the dockets which had been started more than
three years before.
Many were the decisions of great public importance that
came from his pen. As a jurist he pursued a
course of conservative, intelligent, wise and
painstaking dignity, ever watchful for that true
justice which is tempered with equity and mercy.
It was with much relief that he often remarked that
his duty never called upon him to impose a capital
sentence upon one who was tried before him.
During his long term he maintained a record of
having had but one criminal case at which he
presided, overruled by a higher court.
Probably a greater strain was never placed upon a
judicial officer than during the trial of famous
liquor cases of Elyria. Regardless of the
influence, violent threats and affidavits of
prejudice that were used as a means to shake him, he
clung tenaciously to his honest and fearless
convictions that law and order should prevail.
His was a mind that concentrated itself upon a
principle of law until the fundamental theories were
solved and their application placed upon the case in
questions without regard to anything except right
and justice, and yet ever guided by his own high
conception of gentlemanly courtesy.
Among those of his decisions which will ever stand as
precedents of jurisprudence in this state and
nation, was one in which Judge Nye decided
that the holder of National Bank shares had not
right under the laws of Ohio to deduct his legal
bona fide debts from the value of such shares.
The Circuit Court of the county reversed Judge
Nye, but the Supreme Court of Ohio and the
Supreme Court of the United States sustained him,
consequently setting a new and unique precedent in
matters of the relation of Federal banks to counties
and states.
On retiring at the end of his second term, Judge Nye
again opened an office for the general practice of
law, which he still maintains in his service to a
large clientele. Significant of the respect
and esteem in which Judge Nye has been held
during his long career in this one community, is the
fact that among his present clients are the
grandchildren of some of those who formed his
clientele in the early days of his practice in
Elyria - three generations having continued to come
to him for counsel and advice.
In 1911 the electors of Lorain County complimented
Judge Nye by choosing him as one of its
representatives to amend the state constitution.
His work in the Fourth Constitutional Convention was
of a high order, dignified, conservative and based
on the sound judgment of a long experience and
familiarity with legal and constitutional questions.
Shortly after the adoption of the amendments to the
state constitution, it became necessary to draft new
rules for the procedure in the newly established
Courts of Appeals. Judge Nye was chosen
by the president of the Ohio State Bar Association
as a member of a committee of prominent lawyers of
the state to assist the judges of the court to
prepare regulations for its government, in
accordance with the new constitutional requirements.
Ever a strong exponent
for civic welfare and progress, he has interested
himself in an advisory capacity as well as
financially in the thriving industries of his city,
which are making it a sound and prosperous
manufacturing center.
It has been his joy to
hold himself in readiness for any honorable service
he might render to others and to the community in
which he lives, and he has served as president of
the Elyria Chamber of Commerce, a contributor to the
Elyria Hospital, and a member of the Elyria Hospital
Company, and a member and contributor of the Y. M.
C. A., besides giving liberally of his means and
energies in many other lines of upbuilding.
In Masonic circles, Judge Nye has gained
considerable prominence, having reached the highest
pinnacle of this ancient and honored order, when in
September, 1915, was conferred upon him, in Boston,
Massachusetts, the thirty-third and highest degree
in Masonry. He is a member of Oriental
Commandery Knights Templars, of Cleveland, Ohio, and
on the establishment of a commandery in Elyria, he
was made an honorary member of the organization.
Politically, Judge Nye is a staunch republican
and what honors he has received at the hands of his
party, he has fully compensated for by his counsel
and activity in the interests of the principles for
which the party stands and the good it has
accomplished.
On Sept. 15, 1880, Judge Nye was united in
marriage with Luna Fisher, daughter of
Alfred Fisher of Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
The Fisher family were pioneer settlers in
Independence Township and were the highly honored
and respected leaders of their community.
Mrs. Nye has always been an active influence for
good in her home and community, her inspiration
being an important factor in Judge Nye's
career.
Two children were born to Judge and Mrs. Nye.
David Fisher Nye, born Oct. 27, 1882, was
graduated from the Elyria High School in 1902 and
from Oberlin College in 1906. He received the
degree of LL. B. from the law school of Western
Reserve University in June, 1909, was admitted to
the bar and same month and soon after formed a
partnership with his father, under the firm name of
D. J. and D. F. Nye. He was a
most estimable young man and was considered one of
the most promising young attorneys at the Lorain
County bar. But his death on June 23, 1912,
deprived his family and the community of one of its
most cherished members.
Horace Hastings Nye, born Aug. 4th, 1884, was
graduated from Elyria High School in 1902 and from
Oberlin College in 1908. He engaged in
newspaper work for a few years and was afterwards,
in 1915, graduated from the law school of Western
Reserve University. He was admitted to the bar
July 1, 1915. At the present time (1915) he is
associated with his father in the practice of law in
Elyria.
Source: A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio
- Vol. II by G. Frederick Wright - Publ. 1916 - Page 557 |
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