Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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A. A. NUELLE
WILLIAM NICOL
NUELLE & NICOL PLANING MILL,
 
Alameda street. The business of this company was established in 1883, on a small 
scale, and carried on by Mr. Stovell until March, 1888, when the present company 
was organized and incorporated and succeeded to the business.  Their factory is 
centrally located, the premises having a frontage of 210 feet on South Alameda 
street. They manufacture sash, doors, blinds and all kinds of moldings and 
scroll work. The company has a large established trade and gives employment to 
seventy-five hands during the busy season. Mr. A. A. Nuelle, the president of 
the company, is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and was born May 16, 1850. He 
received his education in his native city and State. His father, William Nuelle, 
an old and honored citizen of St. Louis, was a prominent mill and lumberman in 
that State for many years and, now retired from active business, is living in 
that city. A. A. Nuelle learned the business of his father, and for fifteen 
years was successfully
engaged in lumber and planing-mill enterprises, in his native State. He came to 
Los Angeles and organized the Nuelle & Nicol Planing Mill Company, in March, 
1888. He has had a large practical experience in all the details of the 
business, and this company has taken a leading position in the trade. In 1876 
Mr. Nuelle was
united in marriage to Miss Catharine Timmermann, of Waterloo, Illinois. They 
have four children: Eugene A., Elizabeth C., Robert A. and Julia M. William 
Nicol, Vice-President of the Nuelle &.Nicol Planing Mill Company, came to 
California in 1875 and was engaged in the planing-mill business in San Francisco 
for eleven years, until March, 1886, when he came to Los Angeles and was 
superintendent of the Mechanics Mill until March, 1888. The present company was 
then organized and since that time he has held his present position. He has 
charge of the mechanical and contracting department. Mr. Nicol married Miss Jane 
Ritchie, of San Francisco. They have one son, Willie. James R. Sloan, Secretary 
of the above named company, is a native of Toronto, Canada. He came to the 
Pacific Coast in 1873, located in Nevada and remained there until 1881. In 1883 
he came to Los Angeles and held the position of salesman and book-keeper for 
several years, and upon the organization of this company was elected secretary. 
In May, 1883, he married Miss Eva B. Forman. She is a native of Lancaster, Ohio.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 574
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler