He prepared for college in Owego, New York, and was graduated from Williams in 1859.

In 1858 the Erie Railway purchased the right of using the Nichols patent, and erected machinery at its Owego Bridge shop for boring a 2 inch hole longitudinally through the center of bridge timbers.

Principal, Mrs. Liva A. Shaw, Owego, N.Y. Assistants, Miss E.L. Patten, Somers, Conn. " E.B. Scobie, Peninsula, O. " Anna Doyen, Antioch, Ill. " S.F. Clark, Medina, O. " Jennie Woodruff, Berea, Ky.

Mrs. R.W. Porter 1.00 Owego.