“JOHN T. NICKERSON.

   Mr. Nickerson is another subject to the manor born, and first saw the light in Linn county on the fifth day of March, 1847.  He is the son of Allen and Emma A. Nickerson, the maiden name of the latter being Long, a native of Howard county.  Mr. Nickerson was reared on the old Nicker-son homestead, six miles north of Bucklin, and his early life was spent in farm work.  His education was obtained partly in his native county, and graduated in June, 1872.  He first began teaching in Baker township, in his twenty-first year.  Since he began teaching, he has been thus engaged almost constantly during the fall and winter months, except when attending school himself.

   For three years he was not teaching, being then engaged in the drug business at Bucklin, which, however, he sold out in the spring of 1878.  At the spring election of school affairs in 1881, Mr. Nickerson was elected commissioner of public schools for Linn county.  His only opponent was a gentleman of the same politics as himself, both being Democrats.  In the fall of the same year he became principal of the Linneus public school, a graded institution requiring five teachers.

   Mr. Nickerson was married on the nineteenth of December, 1876, to Miss Edith M. Whittaker, daughter of Judge Thomas Whittaker, of Buck-lin.  They have one daughter, born in 1877.  Mr. Nickerson and lady are both members of the Baptist Church.  He also belongs to the A. O. U. W. and to the Good Templars.  As above stated, Mr. Nickerson is a Democrat as was his father before him.  At this writing his official term and his principalship of the Linneus school are both unexpired.

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