Quarter of a century later when his books numbered among the best sellers of theirĭay. Postage Stamp." These small returns were a far cry from the returns of a Those days–of three dollars given him by an Eastern newspaper for a poem.Ī bit later he won a prize of ten dollars offered by a Chicago newspaper for a short story. Progress had been slow up to the point where Nicholson received his first real payįor any of his writings, the earliest being the very modest sum-even for Origins of the term Hoosier remains the best account of the beginning of that In particular, his essay on the variously attributed It was his personal favorite of all of his writings and the one by which he expected The Hoosiers, a volume of brief historical essays, about which he once remarked that Published writings were issued with increasing frequency. Outside of his various newspaper writings during the 1890's, only one published volume stood to hisĬredit –a book of poems entitled Short Flights, published in 1891. Returning to Indianapolis at the turn of the century, he began to devote his entire Stock brokerage, a three-year residence in Denver, Colo.,įollowed, during which period he was auditor and treasurer of a coal-mining The talented amateur: the local newspapers printed his efforts, but without pay.īefore long, however, he became identified with newspaper work in Indianapolis.Īfter a year on the INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, in 1884, he became a valued and versatile member of theĮditorial staff of the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, where he remained Law books to begin his first serious efforts at writing. It was during his days as a law student that Meredith Nicholsonīegan to manifest his natural taste, using what spare time he could muster from his Indianapolis's outstanding lawyers of that day, William Wallace, brother of Later he continued his studies under one of At the age of nineteen he commenced the study of law in the
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Trade plus a smattering of shorthand, a position as court reporter, then employmentīy a law firm followed. Printer's shop, where he learned the rudiments of the printer's A brief spell as a clerk in a drug store and work in a ThenĬame a succession of jobs, always leading him nearer and nearer to his chosen work Schools, leaving, when about fifteen, during his first year in high school. Of formal education he had no more than nine years in the Indianapolis public Spirit which went into the making of his native state of Indiana. Grandfather, Samuel Meredith, and an appreciation of and respect for the pioneer Their "folksy" qualities, sociable and companionable, the feelingįor newspaper work, editorial and reportorial, which came down from his maternal The deep feeling for all that is characteristic of Hoosierdom and its inhabitants, In the Civil War, due to the services and experiences of both of his parents, and
The background of the youthful Nicholson was thus set" the intense interest
South and Central America with the State Department (1932-1942) and three years in Denver, Colo., in the late Nineties. Indianapolis, where he lived afterward, with the exception of the years spent in In Indianapolis in the drilling of new batteries, so, in 1872, when young Meredith was about five years old, the family moved to theĬapital city, where they continued to reside until 1888, Nicholson had been assigned to detail duty Were married and took up their residence in Crawfordsville, where their son (and his younger sister) were born. Shortly after the close of the war, she and Capt. As a young woman during the Civil War, she gave effective servicesĪs a nurse in the South. Settler there, Samuel Caldwell Meredith, one of the pioneer editors and publishers
The mother of Meredith Nicholson was born atĬenterville, Ind., the daughter of an early Sea and having sighted and fired the first gun at the Battle of Shiloh. His command until the close of the war, having been with Sherman on the march to the At the end of three months' service Nicholson enlisted in theĪrtillery, becoming captain of the Twenty-second Indiana Battery. The Civil War the nucleus of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, commanded by Gen. Of that county, a member of the Montgomery Guards, a Zouave company which became in Coming toĮdward Nicholson soon became one of the substantial farmers The father was born in Kentucky, of a long line extending back to colonial days. Meredith Nicholson was born in Crawfordsville, Ind., on Dec.
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