CLASS OF 1869
Right Reverend Isaac L. Nicholson, bishop of the Milwaukee Episcopal diocese, died Oct. 29, 1906, after a lingering illness. He is survived by a son. He was a leading member of the Dartmouth College alumni. His preliminary education was received at the old Newton Academy in West Baltimore. He afterwards went through a course at St. Timothy Hall, near Catonsville, and, besides, received a military education. He then went to St. John's College in Annapolis. At all of these institutions he graduated with the highest honors.
He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1869, and his first active work as a clergyman was begun in this town. He was ordered to the deaconate in 1871 and became assistant rector of St. Thomas' Church, a position he held until the following year, when he was ordained a priest.
He afterward was rector of churches in Maryland, his native state. Doctor Nicholson was elected bishop of Indiana in 1883, but declined to accept the office. While rector of St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, in 1891, he was elected bishop of Milwaukee.
Bishop Nicholson was widely known in the United States and England as one of the leaders of the Catholic party in the Episcopal church. He was president of the Clerical Union for the.Maintenance and Defence of Catholic Principles, a national organization of high church clergy.
Secretary, Charles P. Chase, Hanover, N. H.
