Biographical Sketch of Samuel Pusey NICKLE, M.D. (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** "Historical Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania", Vol. 1, edited by Gilbert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead, Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1904, page 391. "SAMUEL PUSEY NICKLE, M. D., of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, was born in Port Deposit, Cecil county, Maryland, September 30, 1865, and he is the son of William Wesley and Eliza (Pennock) Nickle. William Wesley Nickle is a son of William and Mary (Harris) Nickle, while Eliza (Pennock) Nickle is the daughter of Solomon and Elizabeth (Evans) Pennock. "William and Eliza Nickle had a family of four children as follows: Joanna, who died at the age of twelve years; Clara, who married Albert Boardman Earle (a full account of the Earle family is given in the sketch of A. B. Earle, elsewhere in this work); Pennock, who died at the age of two years, and Samuel Pusey, the subject of this sketch, who married Estella Mershom, of Philadelphia, a daughter of George B. and Sarah (Millis) Mershon. Dr. and Mrs. Nickle have no family. "In early life, Dr. Nickle attended the public schools, after which he con- tinued his studies at the West Nottingham Academy, and finished his prep- aratory work for college. After leaving the academy, he read medicine with Dr. Bromwell, of Port Deposit, and in 1884 entered the University of Penn- sylvania. In 1887 he was graduated from that institution and the same year located in Primos, where he began the practice of his profession, re- maining in that locality until 1893, when he removed to Clifton Heights, and in partnership with Dr. S. P. Bartleson, conducted a large practice. However, after some time, he returned to Primos, where he remained six months, and then again located at Clifton Heights and has made that town his home ever since. He was for some time president of the Clifton Heights Board of Health, resigning in 1900. In politics he is an independent Re- publican, and is also a member of state and county medical societies."