James Lynn Nichols
A RESOLUTION
HONORING THE LIFE OF
JAMES LYNN NICHOLS
WHEREAS James Lynn Nichols, born in Austin, Texas, on October 19, 1919, and who departed this life on January 4, 2004, was an esteemed historian and scholar, and a charter member of the East Texas Historical Association; and
WHEREAS, James Nichols received his undergraduate degree from Chico State University, then taught seventh-grade for one year before he volunteered for the U.S. Army in May, 1942, where he served as an officer in the Engineering Corps and participated in the D-Day invasion and the Battle of the Bulge; and
WHEREAS, James Nichols earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, became the first Ph.D. in the History Department at Stephen F. Austin State University when he joined the faculty there in 1950, and served in the department for thirty-seven years, retiring in 1986 as professor emeritus; and
WHEREAS, James Nichols earned a reputation as a scholar of the American Civil War, earning recognition early in the 1950s in the Mrs. Simms Barush Competition for Scholarship and Research, presented by the Daughters of the Confederacy, and recognition for his book, Confederate Engineers, in 1954, and was awarded the Award of Merit from the Texas State Historical Survey and the Texas Civil War Centennial Commission for his book Confederate Quarter Masters in the Trans-Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, James Nichols, who was one of the founding members of the East Texas Historical Association, was a member of the National Council for the Civil War Centennial Observations, and received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association; and
WHEREAS, James Nichols, an active member of the First United Methodist Church in Nacogdoches, wrote a history of the church and worked with the Texas Historical Commission to have the church receive a historical marker recognizing it as the first Protestant church in Nacogdoches;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the membership of the East Texas Historical Association laments the passing of this “good and faithful servant” on January 4, 2004, extends sympathy to his family and friends; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the Annual Meeting and another presented as is appropriate to the family of James Nichols, that they may know of the love and esteem in which he is yet held by all.
APPROVED THIS TWENTY-FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2004.
Gail K Beil, President, 2003-2004
Archie P. McDonald, Executive Director
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