History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . increased in proportion. At my coming, said he, the superintendence of theschool had just passed from the gifted and gratefully re-membered Adams to the charge of the no less devoted andfiiithful Wm. Allen. It has since been superintended suc-cessively by Chas. E. Storer, R. M. Chapman, the latelamented L. 0. Cowan, and Thomas Quinby, under whomit is now sustaining the good reputation it has heretoforeenjoyed, and is giving promise, we hope, of still furtheradvancement. To that end it
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . increased in proportion. At my coming, said he, the superintendence of theschool had just passed from the gifted and gratefully re-membered Adams to the charge of the no less devoted andfiiithful Wm. Allen. It has since been superintended suc-cessively by Chas. E. Storer, R. M. Chapman, the latelamented L. 0. Cowan, and Thomas Quinby, under whomit is now sustaining the good reputation it has heretoforeenjoyed, and is giving promise, we hope, of still furtheradvancement. To that end it is earnestly to be desiredthat the older as well as younger members of the societywill lend their hearty and practical co-operation. Dr. Nichols pastorate has been a long one, continuingfrom Aug. 12, 1843, to the present time, a period of nearlythirty-seven years. JOHN TAYLOR OILMAN NICHOLS is the son of the late Rev. Dr. Ichabod Nichols, for fiftyyears pastor of the First Parish, Portland, Me. He wasborn in Portland, April 24, 1817. His mother was adaughter of the late Hon. John Taylor Gilmau, Governor. ^iti. J. r^- cyPcc^fi^ CITY OF SACO. of Now Hampshire, for whom he was named. At elevenyears of age he went to Phillips (Exeter) Academy, remain-ing one year. Returning to Portland, he was fitted for col-lege at the academy of which the late Bezaleel Cushmanwas preceptor. Entering Harvard University the summerterm of 1834, in the sophomore year, nearly two years inadvance of the regular course, he graduated in 1836, de-livering the salutatory Latin oration. Owing to deli-cacy of health, he spent the following winter as privatetutor in the family of the late Rev. Dr. Keith, then actingprincipal of the Episcopal Seminary, near Alexandria, 1839 he entered the Divinity School at Cambridge, fromwhich he graduated in 184-2. The Second Parish (Uni-tarian), Saco, being without a pastor, he accepted, in No-vember, a unanimous invitation to supply their pulpit, wasordained the fol
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