Thomas F. Nichols
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 131

Thomas F. Nichols, occupying a position in the office of 
the state engineer at Phoenix was born in Pownal Maine in 
1870.  His parents the Rev. Charles L. and Anne (Flint) 
Nichols were also natives of Maine and there the father 
engaged in preaching the gospel for some time as a minister 
of the Congregational Church.

Thomas F. Nichols attended the public schools of his native 
state and entered Bowdoin College at Brunswick Maine and 
graduated in 1892.  He afterward studied mathematics at 
Clark University at Worcester, Massachusetts and was there 
graduated with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1895.  
Through the succeeding school year he was a teacher of 
mathematics in the University of Wisconsin after which he 
took the Chair at Hamilton College of Clifton New York and 
stayed in that position until 1906.  During that time he 
also followed the profession of engineering in a private 
capacity.  He removed to Ray, Arizona in 1908 as a civil 
engineer for the Ray Consolidated Copper Company and 
continued in that capacity until 1912.

Mr. Nichols married in 1900 Miss Alice Gordon Root, of 
New York, a daughter of Orin and Ida (Gordon) Root and a 
niece of Elihu Root, secretary of state under Taft.


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