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woman was then unheard of in the South, and it is pleasant to know that the foremost woman editor of the South today, was also the South's pioneer woman journalist. Miss Poitevent went on the staff of the Picayune with a salary of $25 a week. The work suited her and she found herself possessed of that rare faculty in a woman - the journalistic faculty. After a time, she married the owner of the Picayune. When he died she found herself with nothing but a big, unwieldy newspaper, almost swamped in a sea of debt.
The idea of turning her back on this new duty did not occur to the new owner. She gathered about her a brilliant staff of writers, went faithfully and patiently to her "desk's dead wood", worked early and late, was both economical and enterprising and after years of struggle, won her battle and made her paper a foremost power in the South, yielding her a handsome, steady income. To those in her employ she is always kind and courteous and her staff honor her and work for her with enthusiasm. Of late years the cars of conducting a great journal have made the composition of much poetry impossible; but "Pearl Rivers" has found time to write two grand poems that have received the highest praise from eminent critics. They are "Hagar? and "Leah" noted for their strength in narration and beauty of language, and are destined to live in literature. In 1878 "Pearl Rivers" married Mr. George Nicholson, and their hospitable and happy home are the poems of which this gentle poet is proudest -her two sons, Leonard and Yorke. Mr. George Nicholson is a native of Leads, England. He came to New Orleans in 1842 and shortly afterwards went into the service of the Picayune, first as carrier and assistant mail clerk, and successively served as counter clerk, collector and cashier. He was afterward made business manager, continuing under all the administrations of the paper. He finally became part owner of the paper, and by his marriage with Mrs. Nicholson became associated with his wife in the publication of the Daily and Weekly Picayune, under the firm name of Nicholson & Co. Photo. (ATG p5,6)
Nicholson, Mrs. and manly little sons, Master York and Leonard, after spending awhile here, returned to New Orleans on Monday morning where they will spend the winter. (SCE 11/19/1892)
Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo., of the PICAYUNE, registered the other day at Hotel Windsor, New York. (SCE 7/29/1893) Nicholson, John H. (S14-16a CRC Bk)
Nicholson, L. K., _ N. Beach (Ph 48 thru 50)
Nicholson, Leonard - Son of Eliza Poitevent and George Nicholson. See Mrs. George Nicholson.
See Bay Waveland Yacht Club (from pamphlet in vault) Nicholson, Major P. H. Legislative Representative