Person

Jonathan B. Nichols (Boyle County, Kentucky, county court clerk)

b. 1824 d. 1896-04-25

Boyle County, Kentucky, court clerk. Danville, Kentucky, native. Son of Jonathan Nichols and Matilda Ball Nichols. Married to Agnes Crutchfield Nichols. Father of William S. Nichols, Richard C. Nichols, and Reed S. Nichols. County court clerk in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Boyle County in 1850. County court clerk in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Boyle County in 1860. County court clerk in Boyle County in 1862. County court clerk in Boyle County in 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, District 2, p. 358B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, City/District 2, p. 590.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 845.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 155A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Precinct 1, p. 122B.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Emmett William Gans, A Pennsylvania Pioneer: Biographical Sketch with Report of the Executive Committee of the Ball Estate Association (Mansfield, OH: R.J. Kuhl, 1900).

"Jonathan Ball Nichols (1824-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #41374850, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41374850.

"Nichols." The Kentucky Advocate, (Danville, Ky.) April 27, 1896.

KYR-0001-031-0065.

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Nichols, Jonathan B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202482 (November 12, 2026).

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