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Marshall C. Nichols

Marshall C. Nichols was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Biography

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Nichols was born on January 17, 1838, in Hancock County, Illinois. During the American Civil War, he was a captain with the 42nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. He was a merchant by trade.

On September 11, 1867, Nichols married Hettie M. Rusk. They would have six children. Hettie was a National Secretary of the Woman's Relief Corps and niece of Jeremiah McLain Rusk.[1] Jeremiah was a brevet brigadier general before becoming a member of the United States House of Representatives, the 15th Governor of Wisconsin and the 2nd United States Secretary of Agriculture. Nichols died on April 8, 1906.

Assembly career

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Nichols was a member of the Assembly in 1883.[2] He was a Republican.

References

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  1. ^ JOURNAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE Woman's Relief Corps. Boston, Mass.: Griffith-Stillings Press. 1915. p. 210.
  2. ^ THE BLUE BOOK OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 1883. p. 505.
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