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William Ford Nichols was born on June 9, 1849 in Lloyd, New York, United States. His father, Charles Hubert, a business man, was of old colonial stock, his first American ancestor being Francis Nichols, one of the proprietors of Stratford, Connecticut. His mother, Margaret Emilia (Grant) of Hobart, Delaware County, New York, was of Scotch descent and vigorous Scotch character.
At Dutchess County Academy and at the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School, from which he graduated in 1866 first in his class, William prepared for Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His decision to enter the ministry, although reached only after long deliberation, was the normal outcome of his training and character. He entered the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut, in the autumn of 1870.
Nichols served as secretary to the bishop of Connecticut, Dr. John Williams, who became a determinative influence in his life.
He was made deacon on June 4, 1873, and ordained priest exactly a year later. His first parish was St. James', West Hartford, with the care of Grace Church, Newington.
In 1877 he became rector of Christ Church, Hartford, and there his gifts as pastor and administrator were quickly revealed. From 1885 to 1887 he added the duties of professor of church history at Berkeley Divinity School.
In 1887 he accepted the rectorship of St. James' Church, Philadelphia.
The following year he declined an election as assistant bishop of Ohio; but when California elected him in February 1890 to a like position he accepted and was consecrated on June 24. Bishop William I. Kip, then over eighty, placed the entire administration in Nichols' hands, and after the death of the former in April 1893, Nichols succeeded him. The area, still administered from San Francisco, was very large; churches were widely scattered; unity of action was difficult. Los Angeles and the southern part of the state were beginning to grow with unexampled rapidity. Nichols saw that for effective church work there must be a division of territory. Such a division was made in 1895 by the erection of the diocese of Los Angeles; and fifteen years later, the vast central valley of San Joaquin with the mountains to the east was in its turn separated from the parent diocese.
After the earthquake and fire he rendered distinguished service not only through his leadership in rehabilitating parishes and rebuilding churches, but also as a member of the citizens' committee in general relief work. He was early associated with General Convention as assistant secretary of the House of Bishops, was deputy from Pennsylvania in 1889, and after he became bishop was a member of many important commissions and committees.
In 1902 he went to the Hawaiian Islands to carry out the transfer of the property and jurisdiction of the Church of England there to the Protestant Episcopal Church. When provinces were organized by General Convention in 1915 he was elected first president of the Province of the Pacific (comprising the coast and adjacent mountain states), holding the office until failing health led to his resignation in 1921. He continued the administration of his diocese alone until 1919, when a coadjutor was elected, to whom the Bishop surrendered the heavier work. He traveled extensively, twice going to Europe officially; first in 1884, as delegate to the Seabury Centenary at Aberdeen, and in 1897, as a member of the Lambeth Conference.
In 1911 he went around the world, commemorating the journey in a considerable book of reminiscences--Some World-Circuit Saunterings (1913). Among his other publications were On the Trial of your Faith (pamphlet, 1895); A Father's Story of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco April 18, 19, 20, 1906 (pamphlet, 1906); Apt and Meet; Counsels to Candidates for Holy Orders at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (1909); Days of My Age (1923), an autobiography; Memories Here and There of the Fourth Bishop of Connecticut (pamphlet, 1924).
Bishop Nichols' episcopate was notable for many reasons other than the general growth of the Church. He founded in 1893 at San Mateo the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (moved in 1930 to Berkeley), acted as its dean for thirty years, and also served as professor of church history. From its foundation in 1907 in Berkeley he guided the work of the Deaconess Training School of the Pacific. He organized the Cathedral chapter of the diocese, and after the earthquake and fire of 1906 secured the gift of a strategic site and began the building of Grace Cathedral. He reorganized completely the administration of the diocese, established sound financial policies, and vastly increased its resources. Through his initiative there was established in 1904 the House of Churchwomen, an official body acting in collaboration with the Convention.
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In churchmanship Nichols was commonly accounted conservative; but his mind was unusually alert to world movements of thought, he welcomed the advances of science, and his sympathies were broad; he belonged to no school. In character he was well poised, wise, judicious, slow in forming judgments, inflexible in carrying them out when formed.
On May 18, 1876, he married Clara Quintard, daughter of Edward Augustus Quintard of New York. To them two sons and three daughters were born.
