Richmond Times Dispatch – October 10,
1924
VIRGINIA LAWYER AND JURIST DIES IN
ALEXANDRIA
Judge Charles Edgar Nicol, 70, Passes
Away In Hospital.
[Special to the Times-Dispatch]
Alexandria, VA, Oct. 21. – Former Judge Charles Edgar Nicol, 70
years old, one of the oldest members of the bar association and
president of the Alexandria National Bank, died this afternoon at the
Alexandria Hospital. His wife, who was Mrs. Florence Nash, of
Warrenton; a son, Aylett B. Nicol, and four daughters, Mrs. Benjamin
Iden, Washington; Misses Julia, Louise, this city, and Fannie, of
Brooklyn, N.Y., survive.
He was born in Brentsville, Prince
William County, Va., and was graduated from Richmond College in 1874
and from the University of Virginia in 1875, after which he was
admitted to the bar. He had been identified with important
litigation in the District of Columbia, State and Federal courts and
also in Europe.
For six years he was a member of the
Virginia House of Representatives, judge of the Circuit Court 1895 to
1907, when he resigned to run for Congress, trustee of Richmond
College and Eastern College, deacon in the First Baptist Church,
member of Masons and ex-president of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
[Judge Charles E. Nicol is buried in
the Brentsville Public Cemetery, Brentsville, PWCo, VA.]
~ ~ ~
Alexandria Gazette – July 19, 1873
At the commencement of Richmond college
Charles E. Nicol, son of Judge A. Nicol, was presented with a gold
medal for being the best writer in the Mu Sigma Rho Society of which
he was a member, and had honors confered upon him as follows: Greek –
intermediate and final. Mathematics – final, and graduated in
French. This was his first session at college.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – May 5, 1904
Judge Nicol Named. Governor Montague
yesterday named Judge Charles E. Nicol of Prince William county to
hold a part of the May term of the Culpeper Circuit Court for Judge
D. A. Grimsley.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – June 17,
1905
The Mayor Can Carry Pistol in Town. –
Judge Charles E. Nicol of the Circuit Court of Loudoun decided in the
case against S. C. Chancellor, Mayor, who was fined $75 by a justice
of the peace for carrying concealed weapons, that the Mayor of any
town had the right to carry weapons at any time, concealed or not,
within the corporation limits and one mile beyond.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – February
17, 1907
Judge Charles Nicol, who is aspiring to
the seat in Congress made vacant by the recent death of Mr. Rixey,
has begun a very active campaign, and Judge Nicol's many friends here
are confidently looking forward to his election.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – September
7, 1919
Judge C. E. Nicol of Alexandria and
Manassas has established a scholarship in perpetuity at Richmond
College in memory of his son, Charles Edgar Nicol, Jr., who died a
year ago. The scholarship will be open to young men from the public
schools of Prince William County, where young Nicol was born.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – November 6,
1912
Judge and Mrs. Charles Edgar Nicol have
sent out invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Pauline, to
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Ide, Jr., Wednesday evening November 20, at 8
o'clock in Christ Church, Alexandria. A reception will follow the
ceremony, from 8:30 until 11 o'clock at 316 North Washington Street,
Alexandria.
~ ~ ~
Richmond Times-Dispatch – October 29,
1924
JUDGE NICOL LEAVES ESTATE OF $150,000.
Judge Samuel G. Brent Succeeds to Presidency of Alexandria Bank. –
Judge Samuel G. Brent, of the courts of the Sixteenth Judicial
Circuit, has been elected president of the Alexandria National Bank
to fill the unexpired term of the late Judge Charles E. Nicol, Judge.
Brent was vice-president of the bank.
An estate valued at $150,000 was left
by the late Judge Charles E. Nicol, who died without a will. A son
and widow qualified as executor and executrix.
