Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-03
DEATH AT LAST.
DIR. A. b. Nixon Succumbs to a Long and
Severe Illness.

DIR. A. b. Nixon Succumbs to a Long and
Severe Illness.
AT half past 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon
occurred the death of DR.. A. B. Nixon, a
gentleman of more than ordinary local
prominence, and who had been resident
of this community for nearly forty years.
For about two years past his health had
been failing gradually but very perceptibly.
During his illness he was daily visitor to
the Capitol Park, where he could have been
seen on any pleasant day on one of the
settees reading, conversing with friends, or
watching the children at play on the lawn
But for some months past the familiar form
of the tall, military-looking but feeble old
gentleman had been missed from the
customary seat in the shade of one of the
his friends that he was forced to keep his
room. Since then his death had been
looked for at almost any moment.
DR.. Nixon had a not uneventful history,
having held many positions of trust and
importance. He was born March ], 1921,
in Butler county, o., and was consequently
in his sixty-ninth year. He received the ru-
diments of his education in the common
schools, and graduated from Miami Uni
versity, taking the scientific course In
the spring of 1S43 according to sketch
of his life published in Vests History
of Sacramento county, he commenced the
study of medicine with Cyrus Falconer, NJ.
D., in the city of Hamilton, county seat of
Butler county. He graduated from the
Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, in the
spring of 1916, and commenced the practice
of his profession in Hamilton, where he re-
manned until the spring of 1849, when he
emigrated to California, and in 1852 estab-
lished himself in the practice of his pro-
fession in connection with the late DR..
Charles Duncomb. Since 1852 he has re-
sided permanently in Sacramento.
He married the Oldest daughter of George
r. Bingham, of Hamilton, O., in The fall of
1876, and they have now living four chill
dren, one daughter and three sons.
While resident of Sacramento DIR.
Nixon had held the offices of State Senator,
Surgeon of the Board of Enrolment for
the Middle District of California during
the late civil war. and Commissioner of
Lunacy. The latter Office he had held DUR
ing the last twenty two years and up to the
time of his death. For ten years or more
he was Surgeon-in- Chief of the Southern
Pacific Company's Hospital, having been
succeeded few years ago by DR.. T. W.
Huntington.
For several years he held the office of
Secretary of Sacramento Society for Medi-
cal improvement, and had served also as
its President. He also held the positions
of Secretary, Vice President and President
of the State Medical Society. In 1856 he
built the house in which he has since re-
sided, on M street. between Ninth and
Tenth, one of the oldest and most substan-
tial priycte residences in the county. In
1856 he toos. an active part in the organiza-
| ton of the Republican party and was
always radical Republican. OF late years.
however, he had taken little part in poll
tics, except to cast his vote.
DR.. Nixon married his second wife about
four years ago. He leaves, besides his
widow and stepdaughter, three sons-Will-
lam, Alexander and Louis Nixon-and
daughter, Mrs. R. B. Campbell, of Marion
county, la. The latter recently came here
| on visit to her father, and was present at
his death. The funeral will take place on
next Wednesday.