Edward Mithoff Nicholas ’29

Ed died in Santa Fe, N.Mex., Mar. 2, 1996. He prepared for college at Columbus Academy and Los Alamos Ranch School. At Princeton he was managing editor of the Daily Princetonian and a member of Charter Club.

In connection with his own later work as historian, Ed always expressed appreciation for the contributions of his Princeton history professors, Walter Hall, Clifton Hall, and Robert Albinos. After Princeton, Ed did some graduate study at Harvard and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had business responsibility for family real estate interests in Columbus, Ohio, but most of us thought of him as a New Mexican. He was a rancher near Roswell, carrying on the full functions, including branding, dehorning, fencemending, windmillfixing, and raising longstaple cotton and alfalfa.

In 1935 he married Mary Cram of Boston. They lived for some years in Washington, where he did research at the Library of Congress for his first book, The Hours and the Ages, published by our classmate, Bill Sloane. In 1975 he moved to Santa Fe. His second book, about his greatgrandparents, The Chaplain's Lady, was published in 1987.

He married his second wife, Elizabeth York of Roswell, in 1960. She survives, as well as a sister, Charlotte Gray, three daughters, O'Brien Young, Lyle Y., and Elizabeth C., and a son, Jerome G. The class extends deep sympathy to Ed's family.

The Class of 1929