FRANKLIN H. NIMS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 647 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


  FRANKLIN H. NIMS, planing-mill; Burlington. Reuel Nims, father of
  Franklin Nims, came to Burlington, from Erie Co., Penn., in 1836;
  finished a log cabin that was partly built, and opened a hotel, and,
  Jan. 10, 1837, brought his family to Burlington. He afterward built a
  frame addition, enlarged his hotel, and kept it for about five years;
  he then sold it, and moved down into the village and opened a hotel
  near the Fox River bridge, in a frame building, put up by himself, and
  kept that open for about three years. He married and had four
  children, two now living- Luther and Mary. His wife died, and he
  married again, in New York State, Lucinda S. Strong, of New York
  State, by whom he had two children- Lucinda, born in New York, in
  1825; Franklin H., in Erie Co., Penn., in 1829. His second wife also
  died, and he went back to Ohio, to live with his daughter Mary, who
  resided there. Lucinda, the only daughter by his second wife, married
  Wm. G. Everett, who died in Burlington, and she now resides with her
  brother, Franklin H. Franklin married, Burlington, Oct. 6, 1855, Mary
  Meadows, and they have three children living- Eugene L., Ida L.,
  Georgiana R. His wife died July 8, 1876, and is buried in Burlington.
  He married again, March 28, 1878, in Burlington, Mrs. Julia Thompson,
  of Racine.