A.A. Nicholson
Wilcox
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913

A.A. Nicholson has for seventeen years been identified with 
the commercial interests of Wilcox where he has acquired 
quite extensive property interests.  He was born on Prince 
Edward Island, Canada, in 1855 and is a son of Allan and 
Margaret Nicholson.  The parents were born, reared and 
married in Scotland and there were born the two eldest 
of their thirteen children, six of whom are still living.

A.A. Nicholson passed his early life at home, where he 
had instilled into his youthful mind many lessons on the 
value of thrift and diligence as well as honesty in the 
pursuit of a successful career.  He remained in Canada 
until 1881 when he crossed the border into the United 
States and engaged in business in St. Paul, Minnesota.  
He remained there for a number of years and then went to 
the state of Washington but after a two year sojourn 
there returned to St. Paul where he continued in business 
until 1899.  In the autumn of that year he came to Wilcox 
Arizona and formed a partnership with his brother but 
subsequently became sole proprietor of the business 
which he is still conducting.  He has met with a fair 
measure of success since coming here and holds title 
to the property where his business is located, besides 
owning his residence and other local real estate, 
including a one hundred and sixty acre ranch in the 
vicinity of Wilcox which he is improving.

In Minnesota on the 23rd of April 1885, Mr. Nicholson was 
united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Marshall who was born 
and reared in that state.  She is the fifth in order of 
birth in a family of nine children, seven of whom are 
still living; her parents being Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 
Marshall who passed away in Minnesota.  There Mrs. 
Nicholson resided until 1901 when she joined her 
husband in Wilcox.  Of their marriage have been 
born two children: Murdoch Allan, born October 2, 
1886 and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1911 with the degree of M.D. and is practicing in 
Hampton Iowa.  Marshall John, born October 6, 1896, 
is a student in the Normal School at Tempe.






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