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Marshall C. Nichols was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

Nichols was born on January 17, 1838, in Hancock County, Illinois. During the American Civil War, he was a captain with the 42nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. He was a merchant by trade.

On September 11, 1867, Nichols married Hettie M. Rusk. They would have six children. Hettie was a National Secretary of the Woman's Relief Corps and niece of Jeremiah McLain Rusk. Jeremiah was a brevet brigadier general before becoming a member of the United States House of Representatives, the 15th Governor of Wisconsin and the 2nd United States Secretary of Agriculture. Nichols died on April 8, 1906.

Assembly career

Nichols was a member of the Assembly in 1883. He was a Republican.

References

1. JOURNAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE Woman's Relief Corps. Boston, Mass.: Griffith-Stillings Press. 1915. p. 210.
2. THE BLUE BOOK OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 1883. p. 505.

External links

• Marshall C. Nichols at Find a Grave
• Ancestry.com

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