Biography

10/02/1824 - 05/17/1902

NICHOLS, Cullen F., a Representative from Bradford County; born, October 2, 1824 in Burlington, Bradford County, Pa.; attended, Waverly Academy; attended, Troy Academy; principalship, Bellefonte Academy; first sergeant, Company B, 207^th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); teacher (8 years); farmer (1851-1869); elected, auditor, Bradford County (1851-1855); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1857 and 1858 terms; elected, justice of the peace (12 years); postmaster, United States Postal Service, Mountain Lake, Pa. (1865-1878); president, Boss Farming Mill Manufacturing Company (1871-1873); appointed, Sergeant-At-Arms, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1873); newspaper correspondent, Kansas (1879); elected, justice of the peace and police judge, Kansas (1880-1884); elected police judge, Kansas; ticket agent, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (1890-1900); died, May 17, 1902, Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania interred, Mountain Lake Cemetery, Burlington, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.