Author: Nichols, Andrew
Biography:
NICHOLS, Andrew (1785-1853: ancestry.com)
The son of Eunice and Andrew Nichols, prosperous and progressive farmers of Danvers MA, Nichols Jr. attended Phillips Academy in Andover and Harvard Medical School. He qualified as a physician through the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1811 and practised for the rest of his life in Danvers. He was a Unitarian, a Mason (first Master of the Jordan Lodge in Danvers, 1808), an Abolitionist, and an active member of the Temperance Society. His first wife, his cousin Ruth Nichols, whom he married in 1809, had no children; after she died in 1832 he married Mary Holyoke Ward, with whom he had a son and a daughter. His only other literary work is an occasional poem, Danvers, written to commemorate a centenary in 1852. (ancestry.com 15 May 2020; Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of Essex County, Massachusetts [1888], 1046)