Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Nicholson, Bert C 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Nicholson, Bert C. – A progressive, enterprising citizen, who has won his way 
to the forefront solely through the medium of his own well-directed efforts, 
Bert C. Nicholson has attained not alone financial independence, but the 
esteem and respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens in Coal City, Ill., 
and is universally recognized as one of his community’s rising young men. He 
is a native of Grundy County, born in Mazon Township, on the farm where his 
parents, George and Rose (Bray) Nicholson, lived. His father, a native of 
Canada, came to Grundy County when twenty-one years of age, and here passed 
his life in agricultural pursuits, dying in 1907. Mrs. Nicholson, a native of 
Ireland, survives her husband, and makes her home in Oklahoma City, Okla. 
There were six children in their family: Bert C., Maud M., Mrs. Alice Brooks, 
Effie, Margaret and Lucille.

Bert C. Nicholson received his early education in the district schools, while 
assisting his father in the work of the home farm, and subsequently attended a 
business college at Ottawa for one year. A young man of versatile talents, he 
has at various times been engaged in the livery, butcher and draying business, 
and in 1909, upon coming to Coal City, established himself as the proprietor 
of a railroad tie and cord-wood business, in which he is still engaged. He is 
the owner of the John Corlett farm, a well-developed tract of eighty acres 
located in section 14, Mazon Township. He is progressive in his methods and 
his ideas, and his willingness to co-operate with his fellow- citizens in 
promoting movements of a beneficial nature has made him known as one of his 
community’s useful men. In 1904 Mr. Nicholson was married to Miss Belle 
Archibold, of Braidwood, Ill., daughter of David and Jessie (Montgomery) 
Archibold, natives of Scotland, who came to America in 1876 and settled in 
Braidwood as pioneers of that place. Two children have been born to this 
union: Dale George and Paul Archibold. Mr. Nicholson is a popular member of 
the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias and the Masons. His 
political connection is with the Republican party, but he takes only a good 
citizen’s interest in public matters.

pages 875-876

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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