Nicholson, Watson, 1866-1951.

Teacher and author.

From the description of Watson Nicholson papers, circa 1903-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122354334

Biographical Note

• 1866, Sept. 23: born, Pendleton, Ind., son of Abraham and Maria (Davis) Nicholson. student through junior year at Indiana U.
• 1884 - 1887 : teacher in Indiana schools
• 1892: A.B., Stanford
• 1892 - 1894 : 1897 - 1901 : teacher in California schools
• 1895: M.A., Harvard Graduate School
• 1895 - 1897 : teacher at Harvard
• 1897, Sept. 1: married Florence Emily Beaver
• 1903: Ph.D., Yale
• 1903 - 1905 : engaged in university extension teaching
• 1905: 1907: traveled and studied in Europe
• 1905 - 1908 : instructor, English Literature at Sheffield Scientific School (Yale)
• 1910 - 1915 : worked in British Museum Member: Harvard Teachers' Association, A.A.A.S., American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Chi. Hon. Member: Mark Twain Society Clubs: Authors' (London); Stanford, Fortnightly, Harvard, Yale Author: A Syllabus of Six Lectures on American Literature with bibliography, 1903; The Struggle for a Free Stage in London, 1906; discovered all the sources of Defoe's famous Journal (1913), previously regarded as fiction, published as Historical Sources of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1919; Anthony Aston, Stroller and Adventurer, 1920.
• 1951, Dec. 2: died - last address: Michigan

From the guide to the Watson Nicholson Papers, ca. 1903-1921, (Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.)