![]() Later he continued his studies under one of At the age of nineteen he commenced the study of law in the Trade plus a smattering of shorthand, a position as court reporter, then employmentīy a law firm followed. Printer's shop, where he learned the rudiments of the printer's A brief spell as a clerk in a drug store and work in a ThenĬame a succession of jobs, always leading him nearer and nearer to his chosen work Schools, leaving, when about fifteen, during his first year in high school. Of formal education he had no more than nine years in the Indianapolis public Spirit which went into the making of his native state of Indiana. Grandfather, Samuel Meredith, and an appreciation of and respect for the pioneer Their "folksy" qualities, sociable and companionable, the feelingįor newspaper work, editorial and reportorial, which came down from his maternal The deep feeling for all that is characteristic of Hoosierdom and its inhabitants, In the Civil War, due to the services and experiences of both of his parents, and The background of the youthful Nicholson was thus set" the intense interest South and Central America with the State Department (1932-1942) and three years in Denver, Colo., in the late Nineties. Indianapolis, where he lived afterward, with the exception of the years spent in In Indianapolis in the drilling of new batteries, so, in 1872, when young Meredith was about five years old, the family moved to theĬapital city, where they continued to reside until 1888, Nicholson had been assigned to detail duty Were married and took up their residence in Crawfordsville, where their son (and his younger sister) were born. Shortly after the close of the war, she and Capt. As a young woman during the Civil War, she gave effective servicesĪs a nurse in the South. Settler there, Samuel Caldwell Meredith, one of the pioneer editors and publishers The mother of Meredith Nicholson was born atĬenterville, Ind., the daughter of an early Sea and having sighted and fired the first gun at the Battle of Shiloh. His command until the close of the war, having been with Sherman on the march to the At the end of three months' service Nicholson enlisted in theĪrtillery, becoming captain of the Twenty-second Indiana Battery. The Civil War the nucleus of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, commanded by Gen. Of that county, a member of the Montgomery Guards, a Zouave company which became in Coming toĮdward Nicholson soon became one of the substantial farmers The father was born in Kentucky, of a long line extending back to colonial days. Meredith Nicholson was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Dec.
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