Thomas Brainard Nichols, U.S.A. and Ella Campbell Slagle

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Husband Thomas Brainard Nichols, U.S.A. ¹

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           Born: 17 Jun 1848 - Mystic, Canada 1
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           Died: 11 Jun 1902 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1
         Buried:  - Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: Dr. Thomas Brainard Nichols (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Walbridge (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 9 Dec 1879 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 1

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Wife Ella Campbell Slagle ¹

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           Born: 8 Mar 1853 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 1
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           Died: 
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         Father: John Stockton Slagle (1828-1906) 1
         Mother: Margaret Anderson Campbell (1830-1909) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Brainard Nichols, U.S.A.

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He was born at Mystic, Canada, while his parents were temporarily at the home of his maternal grandparents of that place. He attended school in Plattsburgh, New York, (his own father's home) and then went to Burlington, Vermont, where he was employed in the insurance business. In 1868 he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from there in June, 1872, with the rank of Lieutenant in the Sixth U. S. Cavalry. He served with his regiment for four years in Kansas and Arizona, part of this time with General Nelson A. Miles in campaigns after Indians. In 1876 he resigned from the Army in order to go into business; for two years he was with the Carnegie Company as an Assistant Manager of the Union Mills, from which position he resigned in 1880 and went, under contract with the Colombian Government, to Bogota, South America, to establish a Military School. While on one of his winter campaigns with the Sixth Cavalry, he contracted rheumatism, which became chronic. After he had been in Colombia two years and two months, he was stricken with paralysis, having two strokes, followed by nervous prostration. Four months after the first stroke, his wife brought him back to the United States to the home of her father, John S. Slagle, but he never recovered his power of speech or the ability to fully care for himself. Throughout the almost twenty years that he was speechless and dependent, he used a typewriter to talk to his friends or to communicate his wishes. He was a member, at the time of his death, of Calvary M. E. Church, and for many years he was a regular and attentive attendant at all of its services.

1 Ella Campbell Slagle Nichols, Family Record (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately published, 1914).