Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Nichols, Mongin Baker 1874 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   MONGIN BAKER NICHOLS, auditor of traffic with the Central of Georgia Railway
Company, at Savannah, Georgia, has been a resident of this city since his birth.
In his association with business life he has been connected with but the one
company with which he now is and he has filled numerous positions in the years
that have intervened since he first took service with this company in 1892,
beginning in the more humble capacity of stenographer and advancing constantly
until he was promoted in 1907 to his present position.

   Born in Savannah in 1874, Mongin Baker Nichols is the son of George Nicoll
and Minnie (Mongin) Nichols. The father was born in Savannah and here lived all
his life. He was identified with the printing and stationery business for a long
period of years. He retired from active business in 1898, and died on April 13,
1905. Mr. Nichols was a member of the board of aldermen of Savannah on various
occasions, serving several years in that capacity. Left an orphan at an early
age, he made the best of every opportunity that presented itself at his door. He
was the son of Abram Nichols, a native of New Jersey, and who in early life came
to the southland and settled in Savannah. Abram Nichols was the first port
warden of Savannah, was a member of the first board of fire commissioners, and
was the commander of a mosquito fleet, fitted out in Savannah, and sent to Tybee
island during the War of 1812 to protect Savannah from an invasion by the
British fleet. He was the father of two sons and one daughter, George Nicoll
Nichols, being the eldest son and the younger Edward Tattnall Nichols, who died
in 1888, having achieved the rank of rear admiral of the United States navy.

   The wife of George Nicoll Nichols and the mother of Mongin Baker Nichols of
this review, was born in South Carolina, of Huguenot ancestry, and is still
living in Savannah. Her family removed to Savannah in her early life and she was
married to Mr. Nichols in 1872. Her mother was Eliza (Maner) Mongin, the
daughter of Ruth (Stafford) Maner, who was the daughter of Col. William
Stafford, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this review. William
Stafford was lieutenant colonel of a regiment of South Carolina troops in the
War of the Revolution, in command at Black Swamp, near the Savannah river. The
Mongin family, on the paternal side, is related in earlier generations to
several famous characters, among them being Jonathan Edwards, an early president
of Princeton University, and Phillipo Martin Angelo, an Italian refugee, who had
been a soldier in the Vatican Guards. Mongin Baker Nichols is one of the five
children of his parents. The others are: William N.; Fenwick T.; Oliver S.; E.
McIntyre, and Minnie S. Nichols.

   Mongin Baker Nichols was reared in Savannah and has lived in this city all
his life. He was educated in private schools of the city, and in the old
Savannah Academy conducted by Capt. John Taliaferro. After concluding his
studies in the best private schools which the city afforded, young Nichols
decided upon a business course for himself, and entered a business college,
where he completed a thorough course in business training. His first position
was in the capacity of stenographer in the office of the comptroller ef the
Central of Georgia Railway in 1892. In 1899 he was appointed station accountant,
which position he occupied until 1907, in that year being promoted to his
present position. He occupies the same position with the Ocean Steamship Company.

   Mr. Nichols was for some years an active member of Company A, Savannah
Volunteer Guards, enlisting as a private, and served as corporal, sergeant, and
second lieutenant. He is a member of the Savannah Golf Club, Savannah Yacht
Club, Business, Professional and Transportation Club, Guards Club, and of the
Society of Colonial Wars, and is the historian of the Georgia Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution. Since February, 1908, he has been secretary of
the Southeastern Accounting Conference, which is composed of the accounting
officers of common carriers in the territory south of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers and east of the Mississippi river. His religious convictions have
brought, about his membership with the Baptist church.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913

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