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{{short description|American lawyer}} |
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| image = DeLancey Nicoll LCCN2014685800 (cropped).jpg |
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| office = [[New York County District Attorney|New York County<br>District Attorney]] |
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| term_start = 1891 |
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| term_end = 1893 |
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| predecessor = [[John R. Fellows]] |
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| successor = John R. Fellows |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|06|24}} |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1931|03|31|1854|06|24}} |
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| death_place = [[Manhattan]], [[New York City]], U.S. |
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| party = [[Republican party (United States)|Republican]], [[Democratic party (United States)|Democrat]] |
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| education = [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] |
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| alma_mater = [[Princeton University]]<br>[[Columbia Law School]] |
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| parents = Solomon Townsend Nicoll<br>Charlotte Anne Nicoll |
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| spouse = {{marriage|Maud Churchill<br>|December 11, 1890|1924|reason=her death}} |
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| children = De Lancey Nicoll Jr. |
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'''De Lancey Nicoll''' (June 24, 1854 – March 31, 1931) was a [[New York County District Attorney]].<ref name="DLNObit1931"/> |
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==Early life== |
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De Lancey Nicoll was born on Shelter Island |
De Lancey Nicoll was born on [[Shelter Island (town), New York|Shelter Island]] on June 24, 1854. He was the son of Solomon Townsend Nicoll (1813–1864) and Charlotte Anne Nicoll (1827–1891). State Senator [[Courtlandt Nicoll]] (1880–1938) was his nephew.<ref name="DLNObit1931"/> |
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He attended [[St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire)|St. Paul's School]] in [[Concord, New Hampshire]]; and graduated from [[Princeton University]] in 1874, and from [[Columbia Law School]] in 1876.<ref name="DLNObit1931"/> |
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After serving in private practice, he was appointed in 1885 Assistant [[New York County District Attorney]] by D.A. [[Randolph B. Martine]]. In November 1887, he ran on the Citizens Reform, Republican and Irving Hall (a faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) tickets to succeed Martine as D.A., but was defeated by his fellow Assistant D.A. [[John R. Fellows]] who ran on the [[Tammany Hall]]/County Democracy (the larger faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) ticket. Upon taking office in January 1888, Fellows dismissed Nicoll from the office of Assistant D.A. |
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==Career== |
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In November 1890, Nicoll ran on the [[Tammany Hall]] ticket to succeed Fellows as D.A., and was elected. On December 11, he married Maud Churchill, and their children were De Lancey Nicoll Jr. (1892-1957) and Josephine (1894-1915). Nicoll was D.A. from January 1891 until the end of 1893. |
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After serving in private practice,<ref name="1884DA">{{cite news|title=THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S AIDS.; THE ASSOCIATES SELECTED BY RANDOLPH B. MARTINE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/12/31/106292581.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 31, 1884|language=en}}</ref> he was appointed Assistant [[New York County District Attorney]] by D.A. [[Randolph B. Martine]] in 1885.<ref name="Ticket1887">{{cite news|title=IRVING HALL'S SUPPORT.; INDORSING THE WHOLE OF THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/10/28/100939017.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 28, 1887|language=en}}</ref> In November 1887,<ref name="1887Ticket">{{cite news|title=DE LANCEY NICOLL CHOSEN; PUT ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WITH MARTINE. DECIDING TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION --THE OTHER CANDIDATES SELECTED BY THE COUNTY CONVENTION.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/10/26/100938556.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 26, 1887|language=en}}</ref> he ran on the Citizens Reform, Republican and Irving Hall (a faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) tickets to succeed Martine as D.A., but was defeated by his fellow Assistant D.A. [[John R. Fellows]] who ran on the [[Tammany Hall]]/[[County Democracy]] (the larger faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) ticket. Upon taking office in January 1888, Fellows dismissed Nicoll from the office of Assistant D.A.<ref name="Vote1887">{{cite news|title=RESULT OF THE CITY VOTE; IT PROVES TO BE A SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. THE LABOR VOTE BROKEN UP IN AN UNEXPECTED WAY--CANDIDATES WHO ARE ELECTED TO OFFICE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/11/09/106186394.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 9, 1887|language=en}}</ref> |
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In November 1890, Nicoll ran on the [[Tammany Hall]] ticket to succeed Fellows as D.A., and was elected.<ref name="1890Position">{{cite news|title=HAS REPUDIATED HIS PLEDGES.; DE LANCEY NICOLL'S CURIOUS POSITION AS A TAMMANY NOMINEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/10/20/103273228.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 20, 1890|language=en}}</ref> Nicoll was D.A. from January 1891 until the end of 1893. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. |
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Afterwards he resumed the practice of law. In [[United States presidential election, 1896|1896]] Nicoll was among the Democrats who repudiated [[William Jennings Bryan]] and campaigned for Republican [[William McKinley]]. In 1904, he was chosen by Chairman [[Thomas Taggart]] Vice Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]]. |
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In [[1896 United States presidential election|1896]], Nicoll was among the Democrats who repudiated [[William Jennings Bryan]] and campaigned for Republican [[William McKinley]]. In 1904, he was chosen by Chairman [[Thomas Taggart]] as Vice Chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]].<ref name="1904DNC">{{cite news|title=SHEEHAN FOR HEAD OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE; Democratic Chairman Taggart Selects His Campaign Aids. PEABODY TO BE TREASURER De Lancey Nicoll Vice Chairman -- McLean, Guffey, and Smith Named -- Gorman to Assist.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/04/100474569.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 4, 1904|language=en}}</ref> |
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⚫ | He successfully represented [[Joseph Pulitzer]] and the ''[[New York World]]'' in a [[libel]] case that went to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in 1910 regarding press freedom. During the [[United States presidential election |
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⚫ | He successfully represented [[Joseph Pulitzer]] and the ''[[New York World]]'' in a [[libel]] case that went to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] in 1910 regarding press freedom.<ref name="Supreme1911">{{cite news|title=SUPREME COURT ENDS PANAMA LIBEL SUIT; Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction in The World Case, Chief Justice White Holds.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/01/04/104853177.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 4, 1911|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Libel1911">{{cite news|title=PANAMA LIBEL SUIT QUASHED BY COURT; Judge Hough Holds That the Circuit Court Lacks Jurisdiction Under the Storey Act. SENT TO SUPREME COURT Useless to Waste Time, He Declares, on a Question Which Pertains to State Jurisdiction.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/01/27/104918263.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 27, 1911|language=en}}</ref> During the [[1908 United States presidential election|1908 U.S. presidential campaign]], the ''New York World'' had published an account of how a consortium involving President [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s brother-in-law Douglas Robinson, U.S. Secretary of War [[William H. Taft]]'s brother [[Charles P. Taft]], [[William Nelson Cromwell]] and [[J. P. Morgan]] had bought the French [[Panama Canal]] company for US$4,000,000 and re-sold it to the U.S. government for US$40,000,000, thus netting a fortune of about US$36,000,000. |
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He died at his home at 23 East 39th Street in [[Manhattan]], and left a fortune of nearly a million and a half dollars. |
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==Personal life== |
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On December 11, 1890, he married Maud Churchill (1871–1924).<ref name="1890Wedding">{{cite news|title=DE LANCEY NICOLL MARRIED.; A VERY QUIET CEREMONY PERFORMED AT THE HOME OF THE BRIDE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1890/12/12/103285804.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 12, 1890|language=en}}</ref> Together, they were the parents of: |
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* De Lancey Nicoll Jr. (1892–1957), also an attorney.<ref name="DNJrObit1957">{{cite news|title=DELANCEY NICOLL, LAWYER, 65, DEAD; Ex-Counsel for Taxi Group Had Represented General Motors and Ford Here Had Variety of Interests Operated Muskrat Farm|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/09/16/archives/delancey-nicoll-lawyer-65-dead-excounsel-for-taxi-group-had.html|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=16 September 1957}}</ref> |
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==Sources== |
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* Josephine Churchill Nicoll (1894–1915), who died at age 19.<ref name="JNOBit1915">{{cite news|title=JOSEPHINE NICOLL DEAD.; Lawyer's Only Daughter Had Intended to Become a War Nurse.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1915/04/27/100151948.pdf|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 27, 1915|language=en}}</ref> |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D0DE2DD1F3BE033A25752C3A9649D94659FD7CF ''THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S AIDS''] in NYT on December 31, 1884 |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A00E2D71530E633A25755C2A9669D94669FD7CF ''DE LANCEY NICOLL CHOSEN; PUT ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WITH MARTINE''] in NYT on October 26, 1887 |
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Nicoll died at his home at 23 East 39th Street in [[Manhattan]].<ref name="DLNObit1931">{{cite news|title=DE LANCEY NICOLL, NOTED LAWYER, DIE; Former District Attorney Is Stricken Suddenly in His 77th Year. "BOODLE ALDERMEN'S" FOE Convicted Several for Accepting Franchise Bribes--Delegate to Constitutional Conclaves. His Early Struggles. Won Fight for Pulitzer.|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E14F7355C157A93C3A9178FD85F458385F9|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1 April 1931}}</ref> He left a fortune of nearly a million and a half dollars.<ref name="1932Estate">{{cite news|title=$1,403,603 NET LEFT BY DE LANCEY NICOLL; Appraisal Shows Lawyer Had $1,559,790 in Securities -- $25,000 Gift to Hospital. FRENCH'S ESTATE $158,388 Sculptor's Property Included Bronzes of Lincoln -- R.C. Black's Wealth Put at $2,294,914 Gross.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/11/01/archives/1403603-net-left-by-de-lancey-nicoll-appraisal-shows-lawyer-had.html|accessdate=29 September 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1 November 1932}}</ref> |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B04E7D61530E633A2575BC2A9669D94669FD7CF ''IRVING HALL'S SUPPORT.; INDORSING THE WHOLE OF THE REPUBLICAN TICKET''] in NYT on October 28, 1887 |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=980CE4D91E38E033A2575AC0A9679D94669FD7CF ''RESULT OF THE CITY VOTE''] in NYT on November 9, 1887 |
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==See also== |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E5DC113BE533A25753C2A9669D94619ED7CF HAS REPUDIATED HIS PLEDGES.; DE LANCEY NICOLL'S CURIOUS POSITION AS A TAMMANY NOMINEE''] in NYT on October 20, 1890 |
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* [[John Jay McKelvey, Sr.]], attorney, founder of ''Harvard Law Review'' |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9805EFDA1E3BE533A25751C1A9649D94619ED7CF ''DE LANCEY NICOLL MARRIED''] in NYT on December 12, 1890 |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9503E2DB113DE633A25757C0A96E9C946597D6CF ''SHEEHAN FOR HEAD OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE; ...De Lancey Nicoll Vice Chairman''] in NYT on August 4, 1904 |
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==References== |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F03E5D71730E233A25754C2A9679C946196D6CF ''PANAMA LIBEL SUIT QUASHED BY COURT''] in NYT on January 27, 1910 |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B02E6DC1331E233A25757C0A9679C946096D6CF ''SUPREME COURT ENDS PANAMA LIBEL SUIT''] in NYT on January 4, 1911 |
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*[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9401EEDE1338E633A25754C2A9629C946496D6CF ''JOSEPHINE NICOLL DEAD''], his daughter's obit, in NYT on April 27, 1915 |
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==External links== |
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*[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0E14F7355C157A93C3A9178FD85F458385F9 ''DE LANCEY NICOLL, NOTED LAWYER, DIES''] in NYT on April 1, 1931 (subscription required) |
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*[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B13FF3A5513738DDDA80894D9415B828FF1D3 ''$1,403,603 NET LEFT BY DE LANCEY NICOLL''] in NYT on November 1, 1932 (subscription required) |
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*[http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00F10FC3B5A177B93C4A81782D85F438585F9 ''DELANCEY NICOLL, LAWYER, 65, DEAD''], his son's obit, in NYT on September 16, 1957 (subscription required) |
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De Lancey Nicoll | |
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New York County District Attorney | |
In office 1891–1893 | |
Preceded by | John R. Fellows |
Succeeded by | John R. Fellows |
Personal details | |
Born | Shelter Island, New York, U.S. | June 24, 1854
Died | March 31, 1931 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. | (aged 76)
Political party | Republican, Democrat |
Spouse |
Maud Churchill
(m. 1890; died 1924) |
Children | De Lancey Nicoll Jr. |
Parent(s) | Solomon Townsend Nicoll Charlotte Anne Nicoll |
Relatives | Courtlandt Nicoll (nephew) |
Education | St. Paul's School |
Alma mater | Princeton University Columbia Law School |
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De Lancey Nicoll (June 24, 1854 – March 31, 1931) was a New York County District Attorney.[1]
Early life[edit]
De Lancey Nicoll was born on Shelter Island on June 24, 1854. He was the son of Solomon Townsend Nicoll (1813–1864) and Charlotte Anne Nicoll (1827–1891). State Senator Courtlandt Nicoll (1880–1938) was his nephew.[1]
He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire; and graduated from Princeton University in 1874, and from Columbia Law School in 1876.[1]
Career[edit]
After serving in private practice,[2] he was appointed Assistant New York County District Attorney by D.A. Randolph B. Martine in 1885.[3] In November 1887,[4] he ran on the Citizens Reform, Republican and Irving Hall (a faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) tickets to succeed Martine as D.A., but was defeated by his fellow Assistant D.A. John R. Fellows who ran on the Tammany Hall/County Democracy (the larger faction of Anti-Tammany Democrats) ticket. Upon taking office in January 1888, Fellows dismissed Nicoll from the office of Assistant D.A.[5]
In November 1890, Nicoll ran on the Tammany Hall ticket to succeed Fellows as D.A., and was elected.[6] Nicoll was D.A. from January 1891 until the end of 1893. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law.
In 1896, Nicoll was among the Democrats who repudiated William Jennings Bryan and campaigned for Republican William McKinley. In 1904, he was chosen by Chairman Thomas Taggart as Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee.[7]
He successfully represented Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World in a libel case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1910 regarding press freedom.[8][9] During the 1908 U.S. presidential campaign, the New York World had published an account of how a consortium involving President Theodore Roosevelt's brother-in-law Douglas Robinson, U.S. Secretary of War William H. Taft's brother Charles P. Taft, William Nelson Cromwell and J. P. Morgan had bought the French Panama Canal company for US$4,000,000 and re-sold it to the U.S. government for US$40,000,000, thus netting a fortune of about US$36,000,000.
Personal life[edit]
On December 11, 1890, he married Maud Churchill (1871–1924).[10] Together, they were the parents of:
- De Lancey Nicoll Jr. (1892–1957), also an attorney.[11]
- Josephine Churchill Nicoll (1894–1915), who died at age 19.[12]
Nicoll died at his home at 23 East 39th Street in Manhattan.[1] He left a fortune of nearly a million and a half dollars.[13]
See also[edit]
- John Jay McKelvey, Sr., attorney, founder of Harvard Law Review
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "DE LANCEY NICOLL, NOTED LAWYER, DIE; Former District Attorney Is Stricken Suddenly in His 77th Year. "BOODLE ALDERMEN'S" FOE Convicted Several for Accepting Franchise Bribes--Delegate to Constitutional Conclaves. His Early Struggles. Won Fight for Pulitzer". The New York Times. April 1, 1931. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S AIDS.; THE ASSOCIATES SELECTED BY RANDOLPH B. MARTINE" (PDF). The New York Times. December 31, 1884. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "IRVING HALL'S SUPPORT.; INDORSING THE WHOLE OF THE REPUBLICAN TICKET" (PDF). The New York Times. October 28, 1887. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "DE LANCEY NICOLL CHOSEN; PUT ON THE REPUBLICAN TICKET WITH MARTINE. DECIDING TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION --THE OTHER CANDIDATES SELECTED BY THE COUNTY CONVENTION" (PDF). The New York Times. October 26, 1887. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "RESULT OF THE CITY VOTE; IT PROVES TO BE A SWEEPING DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. THE LABOR VOTE BROKEN UP IN AN UNEXPECTED WAY--CANDIDATES WHO ARE ELECTED TO OFFICE" (PDF). The New York Times. November 9, 1887. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "HAS REPUDIATED HIS PLEDGES.; DE LANCEY NICOLL'S CURIOUS POSITION AS A TAMMANY NOMINEE" (PDF). The New York Times. October 20, 1890. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "SHEEHAN FOR HEAD OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE; Democratic Chairman Taggart Selects His Campaign Aids. PEABODY TO BE TREASURER De Lancey Nicoll Vice Chairman -- McLean, Guffey, and Smith Named -- Gorman to Assist" (PDF). The New York Times. August 4, 1904. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "SUPREME COURT ENDS PANAMA LIBEL SUIT; Federal Courts Lack Jurisdiction in The World Case, Chief Justice White Holds" (PDF). The New York Times. January 4, 1911. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "PANAMA LIBEL SUIT QUASHED BY COURT; Judge Hough Holds That the Circuit Court Lacks Jurisdiction Under the Storey Act. SENT TO SUPREME COURT Useless to Waste Time, He Declares, on a Question Which Pertains to State Jurisdiction" (PDF). The New York Times. January 27, 1911. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "DE LANCEY NICOLL MARRIED.; A VERY QUIET CEREMONY PERFORMED AT THE HOME OF THE BRIDE" (PDF). The New York Times. December 12, 1890. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "DELANCEY NICOLL, LAWYER, 65, DEAD; Ex-Counsel for Taxi Group Had Represented General Motors and Ford Here Had Variety of Interests Operated Muskrat Farm". The New York Times. September 16, 1957. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "JOSEPHINE NICOLL DEAD.; Lawyer's Only Daughter Had Intended to Become a War Nurse" (PDF). The New York Times. April 27, 1915. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ "$1,403,603 NET LEFT BY DE LANCEY NICOLL; Appraisal Shows Lawyer Had $1,559,790 in Securities -- $25,000 Gift to Hospital. FRENCH'S ESTATE $158,388 Sculptor's Property Included Bronzes of Lincoln -- R.C. Black's Wealth Put at $2,294,914 Gross". The New York Times. November 1, 1932. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
External links[edit]
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