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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

William NICHOLSON, hardware, etc., Elwood; the subject of this sketch was born in Cambridge, 
Washington Co, N. Y., March 26, 1838; he married Miss Caroline E. BENEDICT Oct. 12, 1863; 
she was born in Dalton, Mass., Aug. 19, 1839; they have four children, viz., Lewis, Edward 
B., Rollin H., and Franklin E. He lived in New York until 1865; was engaged in farming; he 
also spent nearly four years at the Troy University; he then came West to Illinois, and 
settled in this township; engaged in farming, which he followed until 1868, when he 
removed to Elwood and engaged in his present business, forming a partnership with George 
A. PEARSON, whom he afterward bought out; in May, 1874, his place was burned, with his 
entire stock; on June 10, he was doing business in an old wooden building, hauled to the 
site of his former store, and the first of the following October he occupied his present 
brick store. He has held the offices of Town Clerk and Village Trustee.