Career
Nicholson received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Kenyon College in Ohio. When the Reformed Episcopal Seminary was founded, Nicholson became Dean and one of its first professors. He also wrote a commentary on the book of Colossians titled Oneness with Christ.
Nicholson was born in Greene County, Mississippi, on January 8, 1822, where his father was a judge.
After attending LaGrange College, the Methodist Episcopal College in LaGrange, Georgia, he was ordained at the age of twenty and served four years in New Orleans. That same year he was elected bishop, with his consecration by Bishop George David Cummins taking place on February 24, 1876, in Philadelphia.
Nicholson died on June 7, 1901 in Philadelphia. He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston.
