Bio of NICHOLS, Edward B. (b.1864), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 521-522
EDWARD B. NICHOLS
Various corporate interests profit by the business ability and enterprise of
Edward B. Nichols, who is now president of the Nichols & Tuttle Company,
Incorporated, president of the Pequot Land Company and also secretary and
treasurer of the Port­land Avenue Improvement Association. He came to the
Mississippi valley from New England, his birth having occurred in Lyme,
Connecticut, on the 2d of May, 1864, his parents being John C. and Jennie (Ray)
Nichols. Reared in the east, he attended the public schools of Wethersfield and
of Hartford, Connecticut, and also of Boston, Massachusetts, receiving the
thorough training that has produced the high standard of the schools of that
section of the country.
Starting out in the business world after laying aside his textbooks, Edward B.
Nichols became a salesman for E. N. Kellogg of Hartford, Connecticut, and later
was associated with M. Bennett, Jr., manager of the Scottish Union & National
Insurance Company of Hartford. He came to Minneapolis on the 1st of November,
1886, and for nearly a quarter of a century was secretary of the Corser
Investment Company, after which he became associated with William B. Tuttle of
the Nichols & Tuttle Company, Incorporated. Throughout the period of his
residence in Minneapolis, covering thirty-seven years, he has been connected
with this line of activity and his opinions are recognized as authority upon
matters pertaining to land values and real estate. The development of his powers
has brought about his gradual advancement in the busi­ness world and today he
controls important interests as president of the Nichols & Tuttle Company; nor
have his efforts been confined alone to this one corporation, for he is also
president of the Pequot Land Company and secretary 'and treasurer of the
Portland Avenue Improvement Association. All of these companies have been
con­tributing factors to the substantial growth and improvement of the city. He
looks at every proposition from the standpoint of a broad-minded man whose
interest is not alone in the attainment of success but in civic improvement as
well.
On the 15th of May, 1888, Mr. Nichols was married at Hartford, Connecticut, to
Miss Martha Ann Stoddard, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Stoddard. Mr. and
Mrs. Nichols have a son and a daughter. The son, John Stoddard Nichols, was a
first lieutenant in Battery A of the Minnesota Field Artillery during the World
war and returned from France as captain of the Eighty-eighth Division, Field
Artillery. He is now vice president of Nichols & Tuttle Company. The daughter,
Edna, married John Upton Crosby, and they have a son and a daughter, John
Nichols Crosby and Marthann Crosby.
Mr. Edward B. Nichols gives his political support to the republican party, and
while keeping well informed on the vital questions and issues of the day, he has
never sought nor desired political preferment. He belongs to the Minneapolis
Athletic Club, to the Minneapolis Real Estate Board, to the National Association
of Real Estate Exchanges and to the Minneapolis Underwriters Association, and
through his con­nection with these organizations keeps in touch with the trend
of progress and aids in advancing the standards of business. He belongs to the
Park Avenue Congrega­tional church, in which he is serving as chairman of the
board of trustees. His friends-and they are legion-speak of him as a "high-class
man." He finds his recrea­tion in travel, in hunting and in fishing, greatly
enjoying the out-of-doors as well as visits to many places of modern and
historic interest.