Augustus Nickerson

From Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts (1910) Vol. 2 p743:

"Augustus, son of Frederic William and Lucy Blanchard (Howard) Nickerson, was born in South Boston, Massachusetts, July 30, 1860. He was educated in a private school, and the Bigelow grammar and English high school of Boston, taking a post-graduate course in the latter institution. His first business position was as clerk with F. W. Nickerson & Company, from 1878 to 1886; treasurer of Boston & Savannah Steamship Company, from 1886 to 1888; in the shoe finding business, 1888 to 1895; public accountant from 1895 to the present time. He entertains free trade views, but has no party affiliations. He is a member of a Royal Arcanum Lodge, Boston Athletic Association, and Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, tracing his descent through Elder Brewster. He and his family attend the First Unitarian Church, of Dorchester. He married, in Dorchester, June 12, 1883. Nellie Sophia. born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 24, 186o, daughter of Edmund Whitney and Sophia (Smith) Tarbell, the former dying at the age of twenty-three years, leaving children: Edmund Charles and Nellie Sophia. Children of Augustus and Nellie S. Nickerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, are: 1. Mary Priscilla, September 11, 1887. 2. Howard Tarbell, March 21, 1891,"