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2 unusual facts about Thomas Nickerson


Thomas Nickerson

Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction work In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is partly based on Nickerson's account.

It took another twenty years before it was authenticated by Edouard A. Stackpole; an abridged version was published by the Nantucket Historical Association in 1984, a century after Nickerson's death.


California Southern Railroad

Among the organizers were Frank Kimball, a prominent landowner and rancher from San Diego who also represented the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of City Trustees of San Diego, Kidder, Peabody & Co., one of the main financial investment companies involved in the Santa Fe, B.P. Cheney, L.G. Pratt, George B. Wilbur and Thomas Nickerson who was president of the Santa Fe.


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