NICHOLS, John, a Representative from North Carolina; born near Eagle Rock, Wake County, N.C., November 14, 1834; attended the common schools; learned the printing trade, serving six years; at the age of twenty-one attended Lovejoy Academy, Raleigh, N.C., for one year; engaged in the book and job printing business and newspaper publishing; principal of the North Carolina Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind 1873-1877; revenue-stamp agent in Durham, N.C., 1879-1881; postmaster of Raleigh, N.C., 1881-1885; secretary and treasurer of the State fair association; elected as an Independent to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; appointed chief of the division of mail and files, Treasury Department, July 22, 1889; transferred as private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury April 1, 1893, and resigned June 30, 1893; returned to Raleigh, N.C., and served in the office of the collector of internal revenue from November 26 to December 17, 1893; appointed United States commissioner for the eastern district of North Carolina on July 1, 1897, and served until his death in Raleigh, N.C., September 22, 1917; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

NICHOLS, JOHN, educator, congressman, was born Nov. 14, 1834, in Wake County, N. C. From 1873 till 1877 he was principal of the North Carolina institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, in Raleigh, N. C. In 1881 he was appointed postmaster at Raleigh. He has been secretary and treasurer of the State Fair association for a number of years, and was elected to the fiftieth congress as an independent.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]

ROBERT B. NICHOLS.
Robert B. Nichols, Democrat, Representative from Wake County, was born in Durham County. Son of D. B. and Rebecca (Suitt) Nichols. Was educated at Leesville High School, 1902-1904. Merchant. Mason; Woodmen of the World. Baptist. Married Miss Effie Lee Sorrell, 1904. Two children. Address: Zebulon, N. C.
(Source: North Carolina Manual. 1919. Published by the North Carolina Historical Commission.)