Wilcox County GaArchives Biographies.....Nicholson, David Bascom 1853 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
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   JUDGE DAVID BASCOM NICHOLSON is one of the most prominent members of his
profession in this section of the state and having served since 1906 as judge of
the city court. He has earned the reputation of being one of the most learned
and impartial of jurists. He has an excellent legal equipment and has also
brought to bear the strength of a fine and upright character, so that he has
gained and held the inviolable confidence and regard of his fellow practitioners
and of the general public. While a resident of his native state, North Carolina,
he was sent to represent the interests of his county in the state legislature
and in that body was recognized as one of its most intelligent and
public-spirited members.

   Judge Nicholson was born September 19, 1853, near Magnolia, Duplin county,
North Carolina. He was reared to the age of fifteen years amid the rural
surroundings of the father's farm. He received his early education in the public
schools and also in private schools and subsequently entered Trinity College,
now at Durban, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1875,
receiving the degree of bachelor of arts. He took post-graduate study and
ultimately acquired the degree of master of arts. His first adventures as a
wage-earner were in the capacity of a school teacher and during his pedagogical
endeavors he also read law in spare minutes, pursuing this professional
preparation under the direction of Col. W. A. Allen, a distinguished lawyer of
Goldsboro, North Carolina. In 1880, the subject was admitted to the bar of the
supreme court of North Carolina, and to inaugurate his practice, he removed to
Kenansville, the judicial center of Duplin county, and there remained for two
years. He represented Duplin county in the state assembly, as mentioned
previously, and was instrumental in bringing about considerable helpful and wise
legislation. Following that he removed to Clinton, Sampson county, North
Carolina, where he practiced for ten years, and in 1893 he came to Abbeville,
Georgia, where he resided two years, and then moved to Rochelle, where he has
won recognition of the highest character. In that year he was appointed
solicitor of the county court of Wilcox county, and he remained in that office
until the establishment of the city court in 1896, when he was appointed by
Governor Terrell judge of the city court, and subsequently, in 1908, he was
elected to the same office for a term of four years, being at the present time
the incumbent. Wilcox county looks upon this gentleman as an acquisition of
great value and no matter with what responsibility entrusted he has never been
found wanting.

   Judge Nicholson is a son of Rev. David B. Nicholson, a distinguished member
of the North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church South, and of
his wife, Zilpha (Pearsall) Nicholson, both of these admirable people being
natives of North Carolina.

   He was happily married in 1876, his chosen lady being Miss Katie Powell,
daughter of the late Col. Luke A. and Mary A. (Vann) Powell. Mrs. Nicholson's
father was colonel of a regiment of North Carolina troops in the Civil war, and
the record of that gentleman is gallant indeed. The children of Judge and Mrs.
Nicholson are: Luke Powell, a locomotive engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line;
Edwin Forrest, an electrical engineer of Americus, Georgia; David B., Jr., a
Baptist minister of Macon, Georgia; and James Marvin, a student at Locust Grove
Institute. Justin L. died March 5, 1909, and Mary died April 3, 1911. Judge
Nicholson is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fellows and at
college was a member of Chi Phi fraternity. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, and his wife of the Missionary Baptist church at
Rochelle. They maintain a household redolent of that warm and wholly charming
hospitality for which the South is so justly famed.



Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

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




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