VINTAGE \"Ohio Congressman\" Matthias H Nichols Clipped Signature For Sale

Up for sale a VINTAGE "Ohio Congressman" Matthias H Nichols Clipped Signature. 

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Matthias H. Nichols (October 3, 1824

– September 15, 1862) was in Sharptown, New Jersey,

Nichols attended the common schools. Learned the trade of a printer. He moved

to Ohio in 1842 and settled in Lima. He studied law. He was admitted to

the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in Lima, Ohio. Nichols was elected prosecuting attorney for Allen County in 1851,

but resigned the following year to campaign for Congress. Nichols was elected

as as an Opposition Party candidate

to the Thirty-fourth Congress,

and reelected as 4, 1853 – March 3, 1859). He was an unsuccessful candidate for

reelection in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress.

He resumed the practice of his profession. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 15, 1862. He was interred in the

Old Cemetery, Lima, Ohio. He was

reinterred in Woodlawn Cemetery.