Contra Costa-Alameda-Ventura County CA Archives Biographies.....Nicholl, John 1822 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

JOHN NICHOLL.—This gentleman, whose portrait will be found in this work, is the
son of Hugh and Mary (Aiken) Nicholl, and was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in
1822. There he resided until 1849, in which year he emigrated to the United
States, and first settled in New York, where he engaged as a laborer. In
January, 1854, he came to California, sailing from New York in the steamer
George Law to the Isthmus of Panama, and thence in the John L. Stephens to San
Francisco, where he arrived February 16th. In company with his wife he first
found employment for a year on a farm in Alameda county; then he purchased the
interest of a squatter on the Peralta Rancho, near San Lorenzo creek, where he
farmed for two years; finally, in the Fall of 1857, moving to his present ranch,
near San Pablo, which comprises two hundred acres. Besides this, Mr. Nicholl
owns nine hundred and thirty-seven acres of land in San Buenaventura county, the
Nicholl's Block in the city of Oakland, Alameda county, and a title to four
hundred acres more near his present residence. Thus in this gentleman's life we
see exemplified the reward of honest labor and unswerving honesty; add to these
that he has made a pleasant home for his mother, now nearly ninety years of age,
and we find that Mr. Nicholl possesses that goodness of heart and right feeling
which is always prone to benefit a community. He married, November 11, 1853, in
New York, Agnes B. Hodge, a native of Ireland, and has: Janetta, John H., Mazie
E., Ruth A., Joseph L., Agnes B., Lulu G., Hester H. and Willie B.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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