Bibb County AlArchives Biographies.....Nicholson, William J. March 18 1860 - after 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   WILLIAM J. NICHOLSON, M. D., a practicing physician of Centreville, Bibb
county, is a native of Tuscaloosa county, Ala., and was born March 18, 1860. He
is a son of the distinguished Rev. Evan Nicholson, who was born in Tennessee,
May 29, 1832. He was raised on a farm and educated at the common schools. At the
age of nineteen he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, and is still engaged in this profession. He is now a resident of
Birmingham. He was appointed chaplain of the penitentiary by the governor in
1886. He is an Odd Fellow, a Mason and a democrat. His wife was named Martha
Winn, and was born November, 1832. They were married December 26, 1837, and
became the parents of five children, viz.: Evan O., a dentist residing at
Collinsville, De Kalb county, Ala.; William J., whose name appears above; Lulu,
deceased; Mary A., wife of Marcus B. Long, a civil engineer of Chattanooga,
Tenn.; Ella P., wife of F. W. Beall, railroad superintendent residing at
Birmingham. The mother of these children died January 20, 1872, and on November
4, 1874, Mr. Nicholson married Agnes Murdock at Taylorsville, Tuscaloosa county,
Ala. William J. Nicholson is a grandson of William R. Nicholson, who was a
wealthy farmer and stock dealer of Tennessee. He grew to manhood on the farm in
the town of Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he received his education. In 1882 he began
the study of medicine under Dr. T. F. Robinson of Bessemer, Ala., and attended
medical lectures at Vanderbilt university during the session of 1882-83, and
1883-84, graduating in the spring of 1884. He then began the practice of
medicine at Centreville. Ala., where he has since resided and where he has built
up a lucrative practice. On December 23, 1888, he married Miss Minnie S. Cooper,
who was born April 14, 1869, and who is a daughter of Jesse D., and Rhoda
(Howard) Cooper, a sketch of the former of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
Dr. and Mrs. Nicholson are the parents of two children, Rosa, born January 9,
1890, and Cooper born April 11, 1892. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and is senior deacon of Friendship lodge, No. 83. He was mayor of Centreville
during 1891, and both he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church.
Dr. Nicholson stands high both as a citizen and as a professional man, and is
one of the rising young physician of Bibb county.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 494-495

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