San Diego County Biographies
  
FRANKLIN PRENTICE NICHOLS

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a hotel-keeper of San Diego, is a native of New Hampshire, and was educated at 
Kimball Union Academy, New Hampshire, and Amherst College, Massachusetts. He 
engaged in teaching for a while, and then held the position of County and City 
Superintendent of Schools, also instructor in the State Normal Institute. For 
the past twenty years he has been engaged more or less in the hotel business.  
He served in the war of the Rebellion in the Seventh Michigan Cavalry, it being 
one of the
regiments known as the Michigan Brigade, Army of the Potomac, commanded by 
General Custer. Major Nichols is a son of Dr. Joseph Nichols, who was a 
physician of some repute in New Hampshire, and who was both a pupil of and a 
graduate in the school of Reuben Dimond Musseg, M. D., LL. D.
        Major Nichols married Miss Amelia Grant, daughter of Rev. Jacob Grant, a 
graduate of Madison University, New York. He came to San Diego in 1885, where he 
has resided ever since.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  155-156