Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Nichol, John 1928
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Ionia Sentinel Standard, 31 Aug 1928

Well-Known Attorney Of Ionia Dead

John Nichol Was Prominent in Masonic Circles in County and State; Death Follows
Long Illness; Funeral Sunday.

The death of John Nichol, well-known Ionia attorney and prominent Mason, after
several months’ illness, occurred shortly before noon Friday at his home on
Union street.  For several weeks his condition has been critical and for a
number of months Mr. Nichol had been unable to carry on his usual work.

Mr. Nichol has been long one of Ionia’s best known men, a resident of this city
for the past 45 years, and a resident of Ionia county for over half a century. 
He came to Ionia from Danby township in 1883 as county drain commissioner,
having settled on a Danby farm in 1876.  He was born in County Donegal, Ireland,
May 27, 1847, and came to Philadelphia, where he lived during the early days of
his residence in America.

He studied law in Ionia and in 1892 was admitted to the bar, opening offices in
the Webber block shortly thereafter.  Since then he had practiced his profession
as a member of the Ionia county bar association.  He was instrumental in the
enactment of Michigan’s first drain law and served the county as its first drain
commissioner.  During the later years of his life he was a justice of the peace
in Ionia.  He had also served Ionia county as deputy county clerk, and Ionia
city as its city attorney.

He was prominent in Ionia and in Michigan in Masonic circles, and he had held
nearly every office in the local orders, into which he was initiated February
26, 1869.  He served as thrice illustrious master of the grand council of
Michigan, and as eminent commander of Ionia commandery, Knights Templar, and was
a member of DeWitt Clinton consistory and of Saladin temple.

January 7, 1872, he was married to Mary Creaser, and they had observed their
fifty-sixth wedding anniversary last winter.  Mrs. Nichol survives him with two
children, Miss Janet Nichol, and Alfred A. Nickel of Ionia.

Funeral services will be attended Sunday afternoon from the residence at 3
o’clock, and interment will be in the Highland Park mausoleum.


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