Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1896-11-19
]. BOYD NIXON,
His Death Follows Close Upon That of His
Partner,

Partner.
j. Boyd Nixon. one of the most promi-
nent and best known citizens of Bridge
ton, passed away Thursday morning at
Hot Springs, North Carolina, to which
place he had gone in his last days with
the vain hope of regaining his failing
strength. His health had long been i'm
paired by a complication of diseases, but
it was only within the past two months
that his illness assumed a serious form.
With the resolution and unwiilingness to
acknowledge defeat so characteristic of
his disposition, Mr.. Nixon for long
time refused to admit the alarming ma
ture of his trouble, until his weakness
was such that it could no longer be de-
MED. When at last he left his home for
Hot Springs those who knew him best
felt that he had gone to return no no~e
alive.
1t is matter of peculiar interest that at
the very time Mr.. Nixon breathed his
last, Colonel Potter, his life long asso-
ciate and friend, was about to be laid
away in his final resting place.
of William G. Nixon, the president of the
Cumberland National Bank, and Sarah
Potter, and was born August l, lS47. In
his boyhood he was athletic in his tastes
and at the same time gave evidence of the
cultivated mind and wide reading for
which he afterwards became known.
His preparatory education was gained in
hn l.,to
in Princeton College. While here his
work in every department was uniformly
excellent and his oratorical ability un-
usual, he winning the first prize in ora
tory at the end of his Junior year. Grad
uating from Princeton in 1867 Mr.. Nixon
took up the study of law under his uncle,
the late Judge John T. Nixon, and was
admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1870,
and as a counsellor i'll 1873.
The year of his admission to the bar le
formed partnership with his uncle, the
late Col. William E. Potter, in connec-
ton with whom he constituted the firm
so well known under tina name of Potter
Il Nixon, and remained here until Jauu-
ary, 1894. During this time Mr.. Nixon
was engaged in much important litl-
CATION, and it was the busiest and most
active part of his life. His maturad
power of penetration and his remarkable
capacity for energetic work. resulted in
making him eminent as business
lawyer. During this period he held the
office of City Solicitor for several terms,
being elected by popular vote a num-
Der of times, and when the law was
changed, the firm of Potter & Nixon was
also chosen by Council to fill the position.
He was elected counsel for the Board of
Freeholders, in 1889, which place he held
at the time of his death. Mr.. Nixon was
counsel for the Cumberland National
Bank, and also Vice President of that in
stitution.
No man in this part of the State was
more universally liked, or more popular
among an unusually wide circle of ac-
quaintances. He was actively interested
in all branches of sport, and was an ac-
knowledged authority on many, espec-
tally that of angling. He was a desul-
tory, but always acceptable contributor
to various papers and magazines, and
had his inclination turned him into dis
tinctively literary paths, his success
would have been notable.
In him our city has lost a capable
lawyer, an honest citizen and cultured
gentleman.