Nichols, Samuel, Dd

Nichols, Samuel, D.D.

a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, was born November 14, 1787. He graduated from Yale College in 1811; was ordained by bishop Hobart in 1813; from 1815 to 1837 was rector of St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, Connecticut; resigning this charge, he retired from the active ministry, and died in Greenfield, July 17, 1880. See Whittaker, Almanac and Directory, 1881, page 174.