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C. C. Nicholson is a native planter and stock raiser of Jackson County, and was born in 1863. He is the youngest of the five children born to Major and Nancy (Tippett) Nicholson, both natives of Tennessee. The parents were early settlers of Jackson County, Ark., where the father opened a farm, and devoted his entire attention to clearing and improving it. He died in 1863, the mother surviving until 1872. C. C. Nicholson was brought up on the farm, which occupation he has always followed. He obtained his education in the district schools of his native county, and worked on the home farm until sixteen years of age, when he commenced farming for himself on sixty acres, which he cleared. He now owns 220 acres, eighty acres of which he has under cultivation, as a result of his own labor. In March, 1884, Mr. Nicholson married Elizabeth Dudley, also a native of Arkansas. They have two children: Willie and Nancy. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson are members of the Christian Church, and are highly esteemed by all who know them. Mr. Nicholson is one of the most enterprising young farmers of Glass Township, in the welfare and development of which he takes an active interest, aiding liberally enterprises for its advancement, educationally and religiously.