Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-01-30
OBITUARY..
NIrG c. II. NIchoIs.

The Ukiah City (CAl. Press Of Jan. lG an
nounces the death of Ms Z. ]. H. Nichols,
formerly of this place aud well known from
her connection with the Windham County
Democrat AMI her early championship of
woman's rights. We copy in full the notice
OF her which appears in the Press
In Potter valley, Jan. II, 1855, Mrs. Carlna Irene
Howard Nichols, aged "a years, IL mos, II days.
Thus has peacefully passed away one Of the bright
est female iuteects OF the present century; who
has left her imprint upon the constitution OF state
and the laws OF several. Born 10 TOwnshend, VI,
Jan. Is, 1870 Of old English aud Welsh stock, she in
hered from the father tue sturdy persistent quail
ties that urge one forward upon given course
gardle,s OF obstacles, while from the mother she
ceiyed that nervous, sanguine temperament which
impeled her always the bright side aud started
her quick intellect to grapple with the problems OF
cial aud practical life to which she gave her earnest
endeayors through long life. Her early efforts
directed In the Of education, becoming teacher
in public aud private schools aud founding young
ladies' seminary at Herkimer n. Y, 20 years ago. By
her second marriage she was brought luto the neHs-
paper field, her husband being George W. Nichols for
over so years editor and publisher in Bratleboro, VI.
Shortly after this marriage her husbands illness fore
ed her to take CONTROL both business and editorial Of
his paper, tue Windham County Democrat aud for 10
years she continued its editor, making 1t the leader Of
the New England press in The interest OF education,
equal rights of women before the law, aud reform In
general The laws Of Vermont at that time gave mar
ried women no right OF property in their separate
earnings their personal apparel, nor Any control Of
their children, against the husband no matter how
worthless or degraded be might be. Through her
earnest eudeayors, private aud public, through her
paper aud an address delivered before the state egs-
iature by invitation, she succeeded in obtaining for
her sex full equality in the eyes Of the law upon all
these poipts By invitation she addressed the legsla
tutes Of different states upon these questions
and strongly Influenced legislation upon them.
Called to the work by earnest friends OF tempe
that question. continuing the work until late in the
winter OF 1852.
out its advantages home for her growing children
In 1855 she moved out there but losing her husband
returned East for a time. During tue Kansas trou-
bles her voice and pen were eYer-ready combatants
for the feeble baung of freedom there oppressed by
border warfare In 1851 she took up her residence
Wyaudotte IN that state and at began the ire
pressibe couh ct for the rights Of her sex Canvass
ing the state thoroughly u anticipation OF the election
of constitutional convention, she lectured In all the
principal towns, encuuntering bizzardsn incident to
the climate and those Of low-minded humans with q
persistent equanimity that always proved triumphant
Upon the meeting Of the convention she worked with
zeal with personal acquantauoes therein aud address
ed that body by invitation. Once more were her ef-
forts crowned with to the extent that Kansas
accorded to her more equal rights under the law
than accorded It in any other state at that date
Always upon the side of right and virtue, with the
courage to assert her opinions aud the Intellectual
power to make them felt her inhu nee can hardly be
measured by words.
Emlgrating to this state in 1871, her lfe.work was
resumed here through articles in the Rural Press but
-heath aud family cares prevented her from taxing
active part In public. For iye years past she has
been practically cou1ned to the house, aud often to
the bed but never for Que moment lost sight OF her
controlling motive in fe-the good OF her fellow be-
ngs Loving her fellow beings, strangers in good
part to her, can imagine her tenderness asa moth
Grand personal friend. Self sacrificing, earnest, sym
pathiznR, believing the best preparation for the flu
ture life duty fully discharged IN the present, she
endeare to her all with whom she met aud gained
the generation aud esteem OF those who differed with
her Views.
She leaves four children with their families e
mourn her loss-Mrs. Frank Davis, cayendish, Vt
Q. II. Carpenter, Wyandotte Kansas; A. o. CArpen
ter, Ukiah, and Geo b. Nichols, Potter Valley and
host OF relatives aud friends all the Northern
states She preserved her faculties in their fules
ygor to the last articles published 10 the last two
numbers of the Rural Press will attest. Her end wal
peaceful aud painless fully conscious that It com
| ing even to the hour almost life well spent wa
| her crown of glory.