Hunter Nicholson
1834–1901
Naturalist and editor. Practised law in Columbia, Tennessee, 1857–61. Established and edited the Dixie Farmer. Professor of agriculture, East Tennessee University, Knoxville, 1869; later professor of natural history and geology.
Sources
Speer 1888, pp. 332–3
Tennessee death records, 1908–59 (Ancestry.com, accessed 10 October 2015)
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
Bibliography
Speer, William. 1888. Sketches of prominent Tennesseans. Nashville: Albert B. Tavel.
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